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In California, El Niño helped fuel a wet 2023 and early 2024. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Wild weather has been roiling North America for the past few months, thanks in part to a strong El Niño that sent temperatures surging in 2023. The climate phenomenon

Read more …Strong El Niño is starting to weaken after fueling a hot, stormy year, but it’s still powerful −...

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Large industrial facilities like this oil refinery outside Houston are major sources of fine particulate air pollution. AP Photo/David J. Phillip

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine

Read more …Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving...

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Low-income communities often have a longer wait for electricity to come back after outages. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Electricity is essential to just about everyone – rich and poor, old and young. Yet, when severe storms strike, socioeconomically

Read more …Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15M outages raises...

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A heat exchanger and transfer pipes at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md. AP Photo/Cliff Owen

The Biden administration has frozen pending decisions on permit applications to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to countries other than

Read more …Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural...

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  2. What is an atmospheric river? With flooding and mudslides in California, a hydrologist explains the good and bad of these storms and how they’re changing
  3. What is an atmospheric river? With California under flood alerts, a hydrologist explains the good and bad of these storms and how they’re changing
  4. Colorado limits plastic bags, Boulder expands fees – but do bans and fines actually reduce waste?
  5. From throwing soup to suing governments, there’s strategy to climate activism’s seeming chaos − here’s where it’s headed next
  6. From throwing soup on famous paintings to pushing lawsuits, the strategy behind climate activism and where it’s headed next
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