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Impacts
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Catching fire: AI is helping scarce firefighters better predict blazes

As climate change and gaps in forest management create more intense and deadly wildfire seasons, firefighting resources are increasingly stretched to the limit. Researchers like Chris Dunn hope their tools can help ease that pressure by making sure scarce fire resources are deployed as efficiently as possible.

Solutions
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Health systems urged to develop green cure for fast-rising emissions

Hospitals and other healthcare facilities worldwide can prepare better for both climate change and future pandemics by adopting green technology and cutting planet-heating emissions from their operations and supply chains, health experts say.

Politics
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Britain hopes Biden will commit to net-zero target by 2050

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped Joe Biden, who will be inaugurated as U.S. President on Wednesday, would join Britain in its commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Causes
Sharp rise in Brazilian deforestation undeniable, says sacked research chief
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Sharp rise in Brazilian deforestation undeniable, says sacked research chief

Ricardo Galvao, the sacked head of Brazil’s space research agency, said on Saturday the trend of sharply rising deforestation was undeniable, a day after he was fired following a public spat with President Jair Bolsonaro over data published by the agency.
Political divisions cloud Poland climate talks
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Political divisions cloud Poland climate talks

Divisions within Europe and tension between the United States and China pose major challenges to the next round of United Nations talks on climate change.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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FEMA freezes $10 billion in disaster aid for nonprofits amid immigration review

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Zeldin shifts EPA toward deregulation and fossil fuel industry allies

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Faith leaders challenge EPA's climate stance amid deregulatory push

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Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

CLIMATE
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House Republicans move to block Biden-era rules on commercial refrigerator efficiency