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News Articles: climate

Debris along a canal in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., one week after Hurricane Ian. A new study warns that hurricanes are getting more dangerous because of climate change.

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  • Climate

Why hurricanes feel like they're getting more frequent

Climate change is making flooding and wind damage from hurricanes more common in the U.S. That means dangerous storms are getting more frequent, even though the total number of storms isn't changing.

February 27, 2023
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Snow accumulates on a hillside over a property Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, in Agua Dulce, Calif. California and other parts of the West faced heavy snow and rain Friday from the latest winter storm to pound the U.S.

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  • Weather

Snow blankets Los Angeles area in rare heavy storm

Blizzard warnings continued in the mountains and flood advisories blanketed the region, on Saturday. Forecasters Sunday would bring some relief, before the next storm arrives on Monday.

February 26, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pape Dieye tells people it's not worth the risk to try to take a boat from Senegal to Europe.

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  • World

People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. Here's why he says no

By day, Saint-Louis native Pape Dieye is a boat captain-turned-tour guide for a fancy hotel that caters to Westerners. By night, he turns down requests to smuggle human beings across the ocean.

February 25, 2023
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By:
  • Ayen Bior,
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • and 4 more
GPB  NPR

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  • Climate

Dead whales on the east coast fuel misinformation about offshore wind development

Experts don't know what's behind the years-long trend of whale deaths. But there's no evidence connecting the deaths to offshore wind development, which is less noisy than fossil fuel exploration.

February 25, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky (WNYC-FM) and
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Toyota unveils a new Prius in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2022. A quarter century after Toyota introduced the Toyota Prius, hybrids remain popular with shoppers.

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  • Business

Hybrid cars are still incredibly popular, but are they good for the environment?

Shoppers are far more interested in hybrids than all-electric vehicles, but environmentalists believe cars like the Prius are an unnecessary detour on the path to electrification.

February 24, 2023
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske

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  • Book Reviews

'The Great Displacement' looks at communities forever altered by climate change

Jack Bittle's book takes a look at several communities that have been affected by climate change, and how the lives of their residents — those who have survived — have been altered by extreme weather.

February 24, 2023
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By:
  • Michael Schaub
A woman is lit by sunlight Wednesday while sitting inside a coffee shop in San Francisco. A brutal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and prompted more than 1,200 flight cancellations Wednesday — and the worst won't be over for several days.

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  • Weather

A million households have lost power so far as major winter storm blasts the U.S.

A major winter storm continued to bring heavy snow, blizzard conditions and significant ice from California to the Northeast on Thursday.

February 23, 2023
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By:
  • Roshan Fernandez
Empty shelves are seen in the fruit and vegetable aisles of a Tesco supermarket in the U.K. this week.

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  • Europe

Many U.K. grocers limit some fruit and veggie sales as extreme weather impacts supply

Grocery giants including Tesco, Asda, Aldi and Morrisons are struggling with their supply chains, particularly with products sourced from Spain and Morocco where extreme weather has damaged crops.

February 23, 2023
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By:
  • Willem Marx
The Martinez Morales family frolic on a snowy roadside near Mt. Baldy, Calif. on February 16, 2023.

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  • News

Winter storm sending heavy snow where California rarely sees it

The winter storm that's pummeling nearly half the United States means snow in parts of California that often don't see it.

February 22, 2023
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By:
  • Mallika Seshadri
The winter storm is expected to bring "a large swath of heavy snow from the West Coast to the Northeast" this week.

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  • Weather

A huge winter storm is expected to affect millions across 22 states

The winter storm will bring "a large swath of heavy snow from the West Coast to the Northeast" this week, the National Weather Service says.

February 21, 2023
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By:
  • Roshan Fernandez
A school of fish swim above corals on Moore Reef in Gunggandji Sea Country off the coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity.

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  • Climate

U.N. talks to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity will pick back up this week

The goal of the U.N. meetings is to produce a unified agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of the world's vast marine ecosystems.

February 19, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Solar restrictions are gaining traction as the stakes for addressing climate change keep getting higher. Construction of more renewable energy is a key part of the country's plans to cut heat-trapping pollution and avoid the worst damage from extreme weather in the decades ahead.

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  • Climate

An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America

An NPR/Floodlight investigation found that a longtime Republican insider is stoking solar opposition by spreading bad information about health and environmental risks. Her influence is growing.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • Miranda Green and
  • Michael Copley
Radhika (15), Anjali (16), Suman (21), and Suhani (15) in July 2022 perform a dance routine near the village of Sahana Pahari, Jharia.

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  • Children's Health

A dance of hope by children who scavenge coal

Kids in India illegally collect bits of coal to sell so they can help their families. To give them a chance for a brighter future, an local educator gives them lessons in academics and the arts.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • Elle Kurancid and
  • Walaa Alshaer
A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier.

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  • Climate

A skinny robot documents the forces eroding a massive Antarctic glacier

Scientists got their first up-close look at what's eating away part of Antarctica's Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential.

February 16, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

If there's a war against climate change, Saint-Louis is on the front line. And losing

The UNESCO World Heritage city of Saint-Louis is perched precariously between the Atlantic Ocean and the Senegal River. And it's on borrowed time.

February 16, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Ayen Bior,
  • and 11 more
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