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Climate change and human activity erode Egypt's treasured antiquities

The effects of global warming on the country’s monuments are already striking. And the changing weather is only amplifying centuries of destructive human impact.

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Biden’s biggest idea on climate change is remarkably cheap

A new analysis from researchers at the University of Chicago and the Rhodium Group, an energy-research firm, finds that one of President Joe Biden’s marquee energy proposals—the one of the most likely to make it through Congress—has a good chance of working.

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Rising temps could kill millions a year by century's end

Deaths due to temperatures rising as a result of climate change could match the global death rate for all infectious diseases combined, researchers say.

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Mark L. Hineline: Is fixing the climate incompatible with American ideals?

Our political institutions were given form in a time when nature was considered rather static and inexhaustible.

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Climate change and human activity erode Egypt's treasured antiquities

Biden’s biggest idea on climate change is remarkably cheap

Rising temps could kill millions a year by century's end

Mark L. Hineline: Is fixing the climate incompatible with American ideals?

Chemical recycling has an economic and environmental injustice problem: Report

A blueprint for reshaping climate regulations under a second Trump administration

Record oil profits highlight the long road to renewable energy

Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

Biden administration unveils plan to wean US government off single-use plastics

Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way