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100-year floods: The metric behind America’s infrastructure is out of date, and thanks to climate change we’re paying the price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.
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.
Texas power outages: The grid doesn't look very "fixed"
Extreme cold paralyzed the state in 2021. Extreme heat almost took it down again.
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.
Climate divestment at Harvard: what activists will do now
The climate divestment movement has been extremely successful. It’s also attracting new enemies.
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.
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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.
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