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News Articles: climate

Air pollution has fallen across the U.S. since the Clean Air Act of 1970. But some areas, like Los Angeles, still suffer heavy pollution from soot and smog. New rules on soot pollution from EPA aim to lower that pollution burden further.

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  • Environment

EPA tightens rules on some air pollution for the first time in over a decade

The new regulations could save thousands of lives from deadly air pollution, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's calculations.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
Residents stand along a flooded street in Santa Barbara, California, as a powerful atmospheric river pummels the region. The storm has caused landslides, power outages, and road and airport closures across Southern California.

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  • Climate

Another atmospheric river has soaked California. What role has climate change played?

California is in the grips of an atmospheric river that's causing flooding all over the state. Climate change might be intensifying storms like it — but scientists are still working out the details.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda and
  • Vanessa Romo
Residents of Tacloban in the central Philippines in 2013, after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the area. Scientists are renewing calls for a new Category 6 designation for the the most powerful hurricanes and typhoons, such as Haiyan.

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  • Climate

Scientists explore whether to add a "Category 6" designation for hurricanes

Climate change is making powerful hurricanes more common. That may require adding a new official designation for the more intense storms, a new study suggests.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
The hockey stick graph, based on research from Michael Mann and other scientists, helped make global warming accessible to a wide audience. It was featured in part in the documentary <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>. The graph also became a target for climate deniers.

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  • Climate

A famous climate scientist is in court with big stakes for attacks on science

One of the world's most prominent climate scientists is suing a right-wing author and a policy analyst for defamation, a case with big stakes for attacks on scientists.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Julia Simon
The sun sets as smoke fills the sky caused by the forest fire encroaching on Vina del Mar, Chile, on Saturday. Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left dozens of people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes.

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  • Latin America

Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 99 people

The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames on Sunday.

February 04, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A car sits partially submerged on a flooded road during a rain storm in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday.

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  • Weather

Atmospheric river expected to bring life-threatening floods to Southern California

The National Weather Service warns the storm could drop unprecedented rain over a wide area from Saturday night through early next week, with the period of most concern from Sunday into early Monday.

February 03, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A thermal imaging device attached to an iPhone shows a range of temperatures with reds and oranges representing hot conditions. Some cities are mapping heat to better understand how to prepare for extreme temperatures.

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  • Climate

How mapping 'heat islands' can help cities prepare for extreme heat

Oklahoma City and several other cities last year worked with NOAA to map neighborhoods to find out how heat impacts neighborhoods. The data can help cities prepare and adapt to a warmer world.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Britny Cordera
John Podesta looks on during a meeting between President Biden and mayors at the White House on Jan. 19, 2024.

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  • Climate

Biden's new climate envoy is John Podesta. He has a big domestic climate job too

Longtime Democratic aide John Podesta will take over international climate talks from former Secretary of State John Kerry. He also oversees Biden's big domestic climate incentives.

January 31, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
In western Arizona, Ivan Bender, a Hualapai tribal member, points to an area, bordering Hualapai land, where an Australian mining company is exploring for lithium - a key metal in electric vehicle batteries.

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  • Climate

Demand for minerals sparks fear of mining abuses on Indigenous peoples' lands

There's a growing demand for minerals as the world ramps up manufacturing of climate solutions. Experts say more than half of these mining projects are on or near lands of Indigenous peoples.

January 29, 2024
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By:
  • Julia Simon
A boat sails down the Calcasieu Ship Channel past Cameron LNG, one of three liquified natural gas export plants in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

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  • Climate

U.S. pauses build-out of natural gas export terminals to weigh climate impacts

The Biden administration announced Friday it's temporarily freezing any new natural gas export facilities while the Department of Energy reviews the implications on climate change.

January 27, 2024
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By:
  • Halle Parker
Billie Eilish at the 32nd Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards Gala in Los Angeles, Oct. 8 2022. The pop star is flanked by her mother Maggie Baird (left) and EMA CEO Debbie Levin.

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  • Arts & Life

Hollywood has been giving out climate change-focused awards for 33 years. Who knew?

Now in its 33rd year, the Environmental Media Awards might be the most celebrity-studded awards ceremony you've never heard of.

January 27, 2024
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Hotter than normal temperatures are exacerbating the megadrought that's depleted Western water reserves, like Elephant Butte Reservoir in southern New Mexico, new research finds.

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  • Research News

'Hot droughts' are becoming more common in the arid West, new study finds

Scientists looked at trees to better understand the interplay between temperatures and droughts in the Western U.S. Human-caused climate change is exacerbating both.

January 26, 2024
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
LanzaJet's Freedom Pines facility is located in Soperton, Georgia, about halfway between Savannah and Macon.

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  • Environment

Rural Georgia gets world's first sustainable jet fuel factory of its kind

Suburban Chicago-based LanzaJet unveiled on Wednesday its Freedom Pines facility in rural Soperton, about halfway between Savannah and Macon, before an audience of more than 200 people including state and federal government leaders.

January 25, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
People walk next to a cracked panel apartment building in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk in 2018. Climate change is causing permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, to thaw across the Arctic. When the earth thaws, it can destabilize building foundations, roads, pipelines and other infrastructure.

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  • Climate

Why the war in Ukraine is bad for climate science

The invasion of Ukraine hampered collaboration with Russian climate scientists. That's bad news for our collective ability to understand, and prepare for, a hotter planet.

January 22, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

Experts predict the global buzzwords that will shape the year ahead

2024 will be awash in new (and sometimes familiar) buzzwords that point up the polycrises (another buzzword) around the planet. Here's a guide for the perplexed.

January 22, 2024
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By:
  • Andrew Connelly
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