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A trip to cover Pakistan’s destructive floods, and what’s left behind

Christina Goldbaum, a Times reporter based in Dubai, had to travel by boat in Pakistani places where extreme floods have destroyed entire villages.
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City of Rochester to use drones to collect data on climate change impacts

The City of Rochester and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will conduct a series of drone flights to better understand how higher temperatures caused by climate change affect some of the city’s most densely populated areas.

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Stanford researchers say 1,800-mile squid migration caused by climate change

Stanford researchers have solved a mystery about why a species of squid native to California has been found thriving in the Gulf of Alaska about 1,800 miles north of its expected range: climate change.
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How climate change is affecting coffee production in Africa

Africa’s 25 coffee-producing countries are home to over 716 million people, and in some of those countries coffee is an important commodity in terms of both export earning. However, climate impact has over the last few years, burdened coffee production in the continent.

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How racist urban planning left some neighborhoods to swelter

Heat waves are more dangerous for people living in older housing units that are harder to cool, for people who live near highways with high levels of pollution, and for those who don't have ready access to health care or healthy food.

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Kenyan farmers mix tradition with tech to protect drying Mara River

Kenyan farmers mix tradition with tech to protect drying Mara River

For more than a decade, environmental groups have raised the alarm over the Mara River in Kenya, warning that population growth, illegal logging and overuse of its waters by communities struggling through drought have caused a dramatic drop in the river's water levels.

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UK will see four heatwaves a year and twice as many flash floods by 2070s, Met Office predicts

UK will see four heatwaves a year and twice as many flash floods by 2070s, Met Office predicts

The UK will experience increasingly extreme weather by the 2070s, including four heatwaves a year and almost twice the amount of current flash flooding, according to new data from the Met Office.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Bogotá faces water rationing

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Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

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Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

CLIMATE
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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Cyclone devastates Mayotte