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100-year floods climate impacts
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100-year floods: The metric behind America’s infrastructure is out of date, and thanks to climate change we’re paying the price

We thought we knew how often heavy storms were supposed to occur. We were wrong.

Impacts
Nitish Pahwa: Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Fiona blackout is the latest entirely avoidable climate tragedy
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Nitish Pahwa: Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Fiona blackout is the latest entirely avoidable climate tragedy

Locals knew what to do about the infrastructure problems that extreme weather revealed. Their hands were tied.
Resilience
Texas power outages: The grid doesn't look very "fixed"
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Texas power outages: The grid doesn't look very "fixed"

Extreme cold paralyzed the state in 2021. Extreme heat almost took it down again.
Causes
The Supreme Court's attack on the Clean Water Act was too radical for John Roberts
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The Supreme Court's attack on the Clean Water Act was too radical for John Roberts

Five justices used the shadow docket to revive a Trump-era rule meant to rubber-stamp pipelines and other energy projects.
Politics
Climate divestment at Harvard: what activists will do now
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Climate divestment at Harvard: what activists will do now

The climate divestment movement has been extremely successful. It’s also attracting new enemies.
Politics
Dear celebrities: You can't sell NFTs and say you're helping the planet

Dear celebrities: You can't sell NFTs and say you're helping the planet

However you feel about it, there’s no doubt that 2021 was crypto’s year, and not just because Elon Musk made Dogecoin jokes on SNL. If you learned what the blockchain is for the first time over the last 12 months, it was very likely because of NFTs.

climate history journalism
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Climate change history: How journalists in the 1900s covered an emerging science

The weather of 1911 was weird—or so reported the March 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics. Among reports of zeppelins, new developments in submarine tech, an electronic hearing aid from France, and the innovative use of canaries in coal mines in Tennessee, there’s a four-page illustrated feature on climate change.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
British police officers standing in front of a van with a protestor standing on top.

Record prison numbers for UK activists highlight crackdown on protests

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Big Tech's power needs leave Navajo families in the dark

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World Bank renews focus on financing controversial mega dams

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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

CLIMATE
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Supreme Court rulings weaken environmental protections in 2024

Sign on the EPA building saying United States Environmental Protection Agency

E.P.A. head Michael Regan stepping down before Biden’s term ends