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Burning Man festival rainout
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Will the rains extinguish Burning Man?

The desert festival thrives on unpredictability, but a changing climate may be a bridge too far.
Resilience
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Ben Weinstein-Raun/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

The Burning Man disaster is ‘a teachable moment’ about climate change

Burners had to adapt in real time as rain turned their desert oasis into a messy mud trap.
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Authorities investigate death at Burning Man as thousands remain trapped
Photo by Obie Fernandez on Unsplash

Authorities investigate death at Burning Man as thousands remain trapped

Thousands of attendees of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert faced the prospect of more rain on Sunday after a stretch of heavy precipitation that has tested the resolve of its free-spirited participants as most have been stuck at the site and forced to conserve food and water.

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burning man black rock city
Photo by Bry Ulrick on Unsplash

Burning Man’s climate protesters block road to Black Rock City

Building a temporary city of 80,000 people in the desert is actually bad for the planet.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
A power plant with a wind turbine in the foreground.

Shanxi province faces difficult path away from coal as China pushes clean energy

A flooded park alongside a river with submerged trees.

Texas growth and lax rules put more homes in harm’s way from flood disasters

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Trump administration moves to shut down critical storm research lab in Oklahoma

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Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

Green coral on a reef.

EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

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Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen

CLIMATE
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Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

Sign saying Break Free from Fossil Fuels on a street.

Burning fossil fuels linked to 1,500 deaths in Europe’s latest heat wave