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News Articles: climate

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  • Climate

How kids are making sense of climate change and extreme weather

NPR's Student Podcast Challenge yielded stories about how students around the U.S. are thinking about and responding to climate change. Here are some of their ideas.

October 07, 2023
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By:
  • Janet W. Lee
Chris Gloninger, pictured in June 2022.

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  • Climate

Innovators share what helped convince them to take climate action

As part of covering climate change we've heard from a number of the doers. Here are a few of those innovators and influencers' thoughts and what motivated them to make a change in their communities.

October 07, 2023
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  • The NPR Network
The giant white marble boulders that line the Agos River just north of the Philippine village of Daraitan are sacred to the Indigenous Dumagat people. They use the boulders to perform rituals to ward off sickness and keep their village safe. If the Kaliwa Dam is built upriver, the Dumagat say these rocks will be destroyed to make way for the increased water flow.

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

The Philippines' capital is running out of water. Is building a dam the solution?

Officials say the Kaliwa Dam will help alleviate an impending water shortage in the capital that's being exacerbated by climate change. But the project is plagued with controversies and questions.

October 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
Marching bands are getting creative to beat the heat of climate change. Some changes include covering brass instruments under direct sunlight, scheduling frequent water breaks and time to put on extra sunscreen, no longer wearing traditional marching band uniforms at games and practicing before sunrise or after sunset.

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  • Climate

Marching bands have been struggling with extreme heat. Here's how they're adjusting

Marching bands returned to practice this fall under challenges like extreme heat and irregular weather conditions. They're getting creative to beat the heat of climate change.

October 06, 2023
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By:
  • Janet W. Lee
Ciara Imani May founded Rebundle, a Missouri company that makes biodegradable hair extensions.

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  • Climate

Any job can be a climate solutions job: Ask this teacher, electrician or beauty CEO

Some "climate jobs" are obvious. Others, not so much. So we talked to three people whose jobs address climate change in unexpected ways.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • A Martínez,
  • Ally Schweitzer,
  • and 2 more

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

People working on climate solutions are facing a big obstacle: conspiracy theories

To talk about the current state of climate disinformation, we checked in with three NPR reporters who have reported on climate, disinformation and the media.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Julia Simon,
  • and 3 more
Pyxis Ocean sets sail in August on its first voyage since being retrofitted with WindWings.

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  • Climate

New technology uses good old-fashioned wind to power giant cargo vessels

Cargo ships equipped with massive rigid sails called WindWings could save a substantial amount of fuel, considering how much of the world's goods are transported by sea.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

U.S. transition to clean energy is happening faster than you think, reporter says

Huge swaths of the country are pivoting from fossil fuels, toward wind, solar and other renewables. New York Times climate reporter Brad Plumer discusses this progress and roadblocks that lie ahead.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
To help conserve usage of the taxed resources like the Colorado River (pictured here), engineers are recycling raw sewage into safe drinking water.

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

The communities experimenting with how to be more resilient to a changing climate

Here are just a few of the ways communities across the country are adapting to be more resilient to the demands of a changing climate.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • The NPR Network
A person rests under an umbrella as the sun sets, Sept. 12, 2023, in Newport Beach, Calif. After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported.

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  • Environment

Earth is on track for its hottest year yet, according to a European climate agency

The report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service also noted that Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures reached in September.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Science

Vegetarianism may be in your genes

Eating less meat is good for your health and the environment. Now a new study suggests genes may play a role in people's ability to stick to a strict vegetarian diet.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
A study published in the journal <em>Nature</em> found that the status of amphibians globally is "deteriorating rapidly," earning them the unenviable title of being the planet's most threatened class of vertebrates. Here, an endangered Agalychnis annae, commonly known as a Blue-Sided Leaf Frog, is seen at National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica, INBio, in Heredia, Costa Rica.

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  • Climate

Scientists looked at nearly every known amphibian type. They're not doing great

A new global assessment of the world's amphibians finds that more than 2 of every 5 known species is at risk of extinction. Habitat loss, disease and climate change are the main drivers.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
Anthropologist Amber Wutich embeds in communities only at their invitation — a method she calls 'participant observation.' Much of her work focuses on alleviating water insecurity.

Tagged as: 

  • Global Health

This expert on water scarcity would never call herself a 'genius.' But MacArthur would

Amber Wutich, an anthropologist and newly minted 'MacArthur genius,' says water scarcity is a human-caused problem that requires human-generated solutions.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
smog map

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  • News

Have you noticed a haze in the air? Here’s why Georgia is dealing with smoke

In parts of South and Middle Georgia, residents woke up this morning to hazy skies — a result of a renewed blanketing of the Southeast by Canadian wildfire smoke.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Gautama Mehta
Kiran Joshi fills a copper vessel with water from Ashwanaula, a groundwater spring in the village of Raushil, where she lives with her family

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

As the 'water tower of Asia' dries out, villagers learn to recharge their springs

In the Himalayan foothills, water is getting harder to come by. Villagers in one region of northern India are learning how to recharge the groundwater-fed springs they depend on.

October 04, 2023
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By:
  • Namrata Kolachalam
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