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By Simon Romero © The New York Times Co. ANDERSON, ALASKA » In the wilds north of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, the U.S. military built a radar installation near Russian airspace during the Cold War, to detect incoming ballistic missiles in the event of a nuclear strike. As drought dr...
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By Mead Gruver The Associated Press GILLETTE, WYO. » The rolling prairie lands of northeastern Wyoming have been a paradise of lush, knee-deep grass for sheep, cattle and pronghorn antelope this summer. But it’s a different green — greener energy — that geologist Fred McLaughlin seeks as he drill...
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By Seth Borenstein   The Associated Press   Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion tons by 2030, a new Department of Energy analysis shows.   The first ...
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By Zeke Miller and Seung Min Kim The Associated Press WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing wit...
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By Seth Borenstein, Matthew Daly and Michael Phillis The Associated Press WASHINGTON » After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is...
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Mideast nations wake up to damage from climate change   By Lee Keath The Associated Press CAIRO » Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with grea...
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By Maria Abi-Habib and Bryan Avelar © The New York Times Co. Mexico, or large parts of it, is running out of water. An extreme drought has seen taps run dry across the country, with nearly twothirds of all municipalities facing a water shortage that is forcing people in some places to line up for...
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By Lee Keath The Associated Press CAIRO » Temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world’s average in the past three decades. Precipitation has been decreasing, and experts predict droughts will come with greater frequency and severity. The Middle East is one of the most vul...
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By Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » The $369 billion climate and tax package forged in a surprise deal by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by the United States to try to stop the planet from catastrophically overheating. The agreeme...
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By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s for...
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  Residents can expect 12% premium rise for home insurance By Aldo Svaldi The Denver Post Colorado over the past 20 years has suffered more major natural disasters than Florida and is among nine states where the number of events causing $1 billion or more in damage has more than tripled ove...
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By Richard Rood The Conversation Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes...
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  By Sarah Jensen Guest Commentary If we are going to achieve net-zero by 2050 and mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we need to be open to any and all solutions. We do not have the luxury to rule out technologies simply because they do not “feel good.” Across the nation, governm...
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    By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press The one-two punch of nasty wildfires followed by heavy downpours, triggering flooding and mudslides, will strike the U.S. West far more often in a warming world, becoming a frequent occurrence, a new study said. That fire-flood combination, ...
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  By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein The Associated Press BERLIN » Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inac...
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By Emma Marris Since 2016, more than 50,000 structures in California have been destroyed by wildfire. During fire season in the West, when the sky is dim with smoke and the sun’s an eerie red, you might find yourself breathing in tiny carbonized particles of what used to be someone’s front-porch sw...
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    By Frank Jordans The Associated Press BERLIN » The world must take “radical action” to shift away from fossil fuels, including investing $5.7 trillion annually in solar, wind and other forms of clean power this decade to ensure that global warming doesn’t pass dangerous thresholds,...
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    By Maggie Astor © The New York Times Co. Startlingly large amounts of methane are leaking from wells and pipelines in New Mexico, according to a new analysis of aerial data, suggesting that the oil and gas industry may be contributing more to climate change than previously was know...
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  By Ved Nanda Columnist for The Denver Post Unlike the wide denunciation of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, the impact of the war on the future of the Arctic region has gone mostly unnoticed. The immediate concern is that the Arctic Council, the intergovernmental bo...
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Crow’s $1.2 billion proposal would help states, tribes better prepare for disasters By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Inspired by an office that launched in Colorado nearly a decade ago, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow wants to set aside more than $1 billion to help states and Native American tribes prepare...
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