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How Trump Is Transforming the U.S. Government’s Environmental Role

Par :David Gelles and Maxine Joselow
The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

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A smoggy street in Los Angeles in 1954.
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Trump Taps Climate Skeptics to Attack Science on Global Warming

Par :Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer
The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.

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The Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.
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Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online, Officials Say

Par :Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.

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According to the Navy, the data will now remain available until the sensors stop working or until the monitoring program formally ends next year.
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Dozens of Wildfires Burn in Greece and Turkey as Temperatures Soar

Par :Amelia Nierenberg and Niki Kitsantonis
Firefighters are battling several blazes, with officials warning that extreme heat will pose a risk of more in the coming days.

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A wildfire on Kythira, a Greek island popular with tourists, on Saturday.
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Dance Poles and Leopard-Print Walls: Love Motels Ready Rooms for Climate Summit

Par :Ana Ionova and María Magdalena Arréllaga
The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution.

A heart-shaped Jacuzzi in one of the luxury suites in the Secreto, a love motel in Belém, Brazil. The motels typically charge by the hour for people who want to use the rooms for romantic assignations.
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Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks

Par :Farnaz Fassihi · Sanam Mahoozi · Leily Nikounazar and Arash Khamooshi
After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, a water crisis is battering Iran.

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A billboard in Tehran encouraging water conservation.
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For 1st Time, Fires Are Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower

Par :Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Harry Stevens
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.

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A wildfire in an area of National Forest Brasília in Brazil last September.
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China and E.U. Reach Narrow Agreements on Climate and Rare Earths

Par :Keith Bradsher
Leaders at a summit in Beijing split over Ukraine and many trade issues. They came together with small steps on climate change and critical minerals.

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Beijing is urging the European Union to drop tariffs on electric cars from China and ease access for other exports.
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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

Par :Somini Sengupta
While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

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Judge Yuji Iwasawa, president of the International Court of Justice, read out the court’s climate opinion on Wednesday in The Hague.
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Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

Par :Karen Zraick and Marlise Simons
The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

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Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s climate change minister, in The Hague on Wednesday.
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How Native Homes in New Mexico Are Tapping the Sun

Par :Cara Buckley and Ramsay de Give
An Indigenous-led nonprofit group is bringing solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe, where about 15,000 households lack access to electricity.

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North Carolina’s Bogs Have a Dirty Secret, and That’s a Good Thing

Par :Catrin Einhorn and Travis Dove
Peat bogs have huge potential to store planet-warming carbon. The ones in North Carolina just need some help to get healthy again.

Peat soil at Angola Bay Game Land in North Carolina.
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Why This Pennsylvania City Put Its Streetlights on a Dimmer

Par :Cara Buckley and Danielle Amy
After passing a Dark Sky ordinance to curb light pollution and save energy, Pittsburgh is installing adjustable streetlights.

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FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’, Colleagues Said

Par :Lisa Friedman
Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.

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Search and rescue personnel near the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 8 after catastrophic flooding.
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U.S. Is Missing the Century’s ‘Greatest Economic Opportunity,’ U.N. Chief Says

Par :Max Bearak
In a speech on renewable energy, António Guterres cited “clear market distortion” in favor of fossil fuels by President Trump and others but called the transition to cleaner energy economically inevitable.

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The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the U.N. headquarters in New York last month.
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Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests

Par :Rebecca Dzombak
Forest fires are on the rise globally. An increase in severe fire weather is largely responsible.

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Fires at Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2023.
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Chinese Car Giants Rush Into Brazil With Dreams of Dominating a Continent

Par :Somini Sengupta and Victor Moriyama
As the likes of Ford and Mercedes retreat, Great Wall Motor and BYD are building factories and bringing affordable EVs and hybrids to one of the world’s biggest markets.

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Workers in training at the new Great Wall Motors factory in Iracemápolis, Brazil.
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Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan

Par :John Yoon · Zia ur-Rehman and Salman Masood
Relentless rain began on Wednesday, causing flooding in several cities and across vast rural stretches in the province of Punjab.

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A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.
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Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review

Par :Brad Plumer
Industry groups said the directive could create new delays and bottlenecks for renewable energy projects across the country.

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Wind tower components on a lot in Newton, Iowa, this month.
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The West’s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests

Par :Raymond Zhong
Clues from another dry spell 6,000 years ago are helping scientists understand what’s driving the latest one, and why it’s been so unrelenting.

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Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona, where July water levels are only at a third of capacity.
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It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers

Par :Jason Horowitz
In peak vacation season, many of the continent’s most desirable getaways are becoming places to get away from.

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Increasingly frequent storms have washed much of the sand from the beach at Montgat, near Barcelona in Spain.
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Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say

Par :Max Bearak and Hiroko Tabuchi
Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk.

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Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.
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Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure

Par :Claire Brown
Ben Jealous, who joined the environmental group in 2023, has clashed with some employees and the organization’s union.

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Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, at a climate rally in Washington in 2023. He is now on leave.
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UK Braces for Record Temperatures as Third Heat Wave Spreads

Par :Nazaneen Ghaffar
A third official heat wave is expected to descend this weekend, with record-breaking temperatures possible in Scotland.

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A spectator on Day 11 of Wimbledon in London on Thursday. In the coming days, most of England, eastern Scotland and eastern Northern Ireland are likely to meet the official heat wave criteria.
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Sonoran Desert Toads, With Their Psychedelic Powers, Appear to Be in Decline

Par :Rachel Nuwer
New research suggests Sonoran Desert toads went into steep decline after stories of their mind-bending chemical properties began circulating among drug users.
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