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Trump Taps Climate Skeptics to Attack Science on Global Warming

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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For 1st Time, Fires Are Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower

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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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review

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

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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