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'Leaf peeping' is huge in New England. Will climate change alter tourism?
Take a stroll around Boston right now and there are plenty of trees to gawk at and admire.“The branches are turning kind of a brilliant yellow, orange and red, and that's what makes this tree so...
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Why the military isn’t tracking climate change costs
Hurricane Michael aimed squarely at Tyndall Air Force Base when it hit the Florida panhandle last week. The storm left destruction in its wake, and evidence of just how vulnerable US military assets...
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Sewage surveillance is key in the fight against polio
The world is at the brink of eradicating polio. Only three countries now have ongoing transmission: Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And in 2017, there were only a couple dozen cases of paralytic...
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Charles Darwin's 'tree of life' gets a new look
New scientific research, based on ideas from more than 60 years ago, is complicating Charles Darwin’s view of evolution as a “tree of life.”Darwin, who wrote On the Origin of Species, postulated that...
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An Alaskan village is falling into the sea. Washington is looking the other way.
This story comes to us through a partnership with the podcast and radio program Threshold, with funding support from the Pulitzer Center.The sun never really sets on summer nights in the far north, and...
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World hunger is on the rise again, and climate change is a culprit
World hunger has risen for a third consecutive year, according to the United Nations’ annual food security report. The total number of people who face chronic food deprivation has increased by 15...
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Even a slight increase in global warming could be catastrophic, experts warn
A special report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Oct. 8, 2018, spells out the need to move quickly to curtail global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius from...
View ArticleKavanaugh’s track record on environmental law favors business over climate...
Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who brings a long record of pro-business and anti-regulatory opinions from his tenure on an appeals court, will likely tip the high court’s...
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India unveils the world’s tallest statue, celebrating development at the...
On Oct. 30, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s largest statue, the "Statue of Unity" in Gujarat. At 182 meters or 598 feet tall (240 meters or 787 feet including the base), it...
View ArticleJohn Kerry wants us to respect US democracy — by voting for a cleaner planet
As secretary of state under President Barack Obama, Kerry made climate change one of his top priorities and later played a key role in the success of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. Now, as the...
View ArticleChina exports its restrictive internet policies to dozens of countries, says...
China's restrictive internet policy and digital surveillance have spread worldwide over the last two years; the government is training countries with emerging markets about surveillance processes and...
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A solid red Texas district could turn blue — and climate change may be a factor
Texas’ 7th Congressional District in western Houston and its suburbs has been a Republican stronghold since the 1960s when George HW Bush held the seat. But this year, the race — in one of the...
View ArticleGoogle workers around the world protest its corporate culture
Thousands of Google employees and contractors staged brief midday walk-outs on Thursday at offices across Asia, Europe and North America to protest sexism, racism and unchecked executive power in their...
View ArticleFlorida's 'red tide' could help turn the state blue
An ecological disaster could be shaping Florida’s political races this November.Large swaths of toxic, green algae blooms and so-called “red tide” blooms have infested shorelines, killing marine life,...
View ArticleWarming ocean waters turned Hurricane Michael into a superstorm
When Hurricane Michael came ashore in the Panhandle of Florida on Oct. 10, it shredded buildings with the sheer force of its Category 4 winds and swept away entire neighborhoods with an 8- to 12-foot...
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Strict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new...
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, will make many decisions during his four-year term, from combating violence to stimulating a stagnant economy.Those decisions will have large impacts on...
View ArticleFacebook's Cameroon problem: stop stoking hate
A video link posted on Facebook on June 20 showed a man cooking human body parts in a pot over a wood fire.In Cameroon, the footage went viral. Some Facebook users said the man was a cannibal and that...
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The Arctic's Sámi people push for a sustainable Norway
This story comes to us through a partnership with the podcast and radio program Threshold, with funding support from the Pulitzer Center.Here’s what a couple thousand extremely happy Norwegians look...
View ArticleMining bitcoin uses more energy than mining gold
Cryptocurrencies have an image problem. For the past few years, cryptocurrency networks like bitcoin have gained a reputation as energy hogs, eliciting headlines comparing their energy consumption to...
View ArticleTwo recent EPA decisions threaten children's health, experts say
In September, the Environmental Protection Agency, without explanation, placed Dr. Ruth Etzel, head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, while announcing plans to roll...
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