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  By Coral Murphy Marcos © The New York Times Co. When megafires burn in unison and harsh droughts parch the West, local governments, utilities and companies struggle with how to prevent outbreaks, especially as each year brings record destruction. Carrying an unconventional weapon, Lani Ma...
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  Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town. Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increasingly vulner...
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Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town. Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increasingl...
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By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katy Reckdahl © The New York Times Co. NEW ORLEANS » In many ways, Iley Joseph’s one-bedroom apartment was an ideal place to ride out a hurricane. It was on the third floor — much too high to flood — of a building that was sturdy and new, part of a sle...
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Climate Reality, AUGUST 10, 2021 | 12:42 PM The world’s climate scientists are sending Congress and world leaders a clear message: We are on the brink of catastrophe. What happens next is up to us. The alarm bells really couldn’t be any louder or clearer. We are living through the last years stil...
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LATE-NIGHT SHOWS ARE TEAMING UP TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE   Climate change may not be the easiest subject to laugh about, but late-night hosts are teaming up in hopes of raising awareness about the issue and even finding some humor in it. On Sept. 22, seven network and cable late-night shows ...
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  By Renata Brito The Associated Press BARCELONA, SPAIN » Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank...
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  Colorado looks to be ahead of Biden’s called-for pace on move away from fossil fuels By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post Colorado is ahead of several states and the U.S. when it comes to renewable energy sources, with about two-thirds predicted to come from wind and solar by 2030. Energy ex...
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Biden’s visit a chance to commit to climate action on public lands   By Jennifer Rokala Guest Commentary As President Joe Biden visits Colorado and the West, he’ll come face-to-face with the reality of climate change. Massive wildfires, accelerated by a century of unchecked oil, gas, and co...
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By Justin Wingerter The Denver Post America cannot wait any longer to make large investments in clean energy and combat climate change, President Joe Biden said Tuesday in Jefferson County. “Climate change is here today, not next year or 10 years from now. We have to make changes to slow climate ...
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    By Jesse McKinley, Dana Rubinstein and Jeffery C. Mays © The New York Times Co. NEW YORK » The warnings and maps seemed clear. On Tuesday evening, the National Weather Service issued a prediction that a wide swath of the Ohio Valley and the Eastern Seaboard soon woul...
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    By Christopher Flavelle © The New York Times Co. FAIR BLUFF, N.C. » It has been almost five years since Hurricane Matthew flooded the small town of Fair Bluff, on the coastal plain of North Carolina. But somehow, the damage keeps getting worse. The storm submerged Main S...
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To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground A new study in Nature reports that oil, gas and coal production must begin falling immediately to have even a 50 percent chance of keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. &nbs...
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U.N.: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall   By Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten The Associated Press GENEVA » Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency ...
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  By Sam Metz, Janie Har and John Antczak The Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » Favorable weather helped firefighters trying to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching wildfire, but officials warned Wednesday that stiff winds and dry conditions mean that...
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Climate bankruptcy Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town. Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increas...
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By Sam Metz and Janie Har The Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildf...
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      By Sam Metz and Brian Melley The Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » A California fire that gutted hundreds of homes advanced toward Lake Tahoe on Wednesday as thousands of firefighters tried to box in the flames and tourists who hoped to boat or s...
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    Something extraordinary happened Aug. 14 at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, 2 miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time. The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several...
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  Amid the haze and despair over the planet’s future, Colorado experts offer hope By Elizabeth Hernandez The Denver Post The more Andrés Better studied climate change and its worsening impact on the environment, the more discouraged he became. The Colorado State University freshman abso...
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