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Latest climate report warns of major upheaval to California way of life

The dire projections come from the state’s Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.
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A California town’s beaches are washing away. Can its residents turn the tide?

Rapid coastal erosion threatens coastal homes and economies, and as Super El Niño rounds the corner, a town is reckoning with the reality of climate crisis
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Great Lakes ice cover is shrinking fast. A century of data reveals why

The amount of ice on the Great Lakes has declined rapidly over the past four decades, but a warming climate might not be the only explanation for freezing fluctuations during the last century.
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Indigenous leaders have climate solutions. This group helps them get funding

The Indigenous Earth Fund recently awarded $1 million to Native-led projects that aim to restore the planet.
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Biodiversity crisis: Nature's collapse threatens humanity

Human activity is driving plants and animals to extinction at an unprecedented rate. As countries meet in Armenia to discuss ways to reverse nature loss, Deutsche Welle reveals how declining biodiversity is already harming people.

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‘Clean’ energy: Bioenergy's claims challenged

Companies market wood pellets and hog biogas as climate solutions. Critics say neighbors are exposed to health risks and life quality issues.
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Why beef prices keep rising as drought shrinks US cattle herds

As long as climate change keeps worsening droughts, ranchers will be cautious about raising more cattle.
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New group seeks to help US small towns lead the clean energy transition

Enfield, North Carolina, Mayor Mondale Robinson announced the group’s launch in September, saying that small towns, often overlooked, will have more power if they work together.

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The world is crumbling in 'The History of Concrete'

John Wilson reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.

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Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals

Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen, a town in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, one of the fastest-warming places in the world

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Houses of worship in New York City prepare for growing climate threats

Free climate-readiness audits are helping religious organizations identify ways to buttress their buildings for extreme heat, flooding, and other dangers.

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