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2020 was a preview of hotter years to come

‘We’re not going back to temperatures in the 1980s’

By Justine Calma

Microplastics from laundry are flooding into the Arctic 

By Justine Calma

Some monster scraped Trump’s name into this poor manatee’s back

By Mitchell Clark
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Damages from US weather and climate disasters reached a new record in 2020

By Justine Calma

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers

By Justine Calma

Go read these stories about the use of spy satellite images in environmental studies

By Kait Sanchez

The stimulus bill will phase out ‘super’ greenhouse gases

By Justine Calma

Slavery and overfishing on the high seas can’t hide from these researchers

By Justine Calma

Nature is not healing

By Justine Calma

How to slash buildings’ growing greenhouse gas emissions

By Justine Calma

Sunrise movement staff vote to unionize

By Justine Calma

Amazon generates millions of pounds of plastic waste

By Justine Calma

United makes plans to capture its planet-heating pollution 

By Justine Calma

How governors are fighting for clean energy jobs

By Justine Calma

Amazon boosts renewable energy purchases

By Justine Calma

The pandemic turned the volume down on ocean noise pollution

By Justine Calma

Health care is coming to grips with its pollution problem

By Justine Calma

Nissan follows GM in ditching Trump’s effort to overturn California’s pollution rules

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Climate change is already a disaster to health, doctors say

By Justine Calma

Rising seas predicted to flood thousands of affordable housing units by 2050

By Justine Calma

Today is the last day of the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season

By Justine Calma

Satellite images show online shopping’s growing footprint

By Justine Calma

GM abandons Trump’s war against California’s pollution powers

By Justine Calma

Newly named panda cub is still online as National Zoo closes doors

By Justine Calma

NASA to launch satellite to track rising sea levels

By Justine Calma

US greenhouse gas emissions see historic plummet

By Justine Calma

Google launches new tool to help cities stay cool

By Justine Calma

The UK moves up deadline to ban the sale of combustion-engine vehicles

By Justine Calma

Jeff Bezos announces first beneficiaries of his $10 billion climate fund

By Justine Calma

Sewage is still ‘America’s dirty secret’

By Justine Calma

To achieve his climate goals, Joe Biden needs to bring scientists back

By Justine Calma

Hurricanes are keeping more of their strength after moving ashore

By Justine Calma