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    U.S. Consulate Lahore staff and participants including Maryum Saifee, second from right, in the ATX+PAK entrepreneurship program at the Mix festival in Lahore, Pakistan, an event inspired by Austin's SXSW events.
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    State Department Should Be More Diverse And Engaged Across U.S., Report Says

    Mar 03, 2021
    The Biden administration pledges a foreign policy that delivers to middle-class Americans. Linking up to locales across the country — outside D.C. — could help with that, according to a new report.
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    Science
    Shipping workers recorded the tide levels beginning in 1854 at St. George's Dock in Liverpool, England, creating valuable records for future scientists.
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    How Fast Are Oceans Rising? The Answer May Be In Century-Old Shipping Logs

    Mar 01, 2021
    A century ago, the shipping industry recorded the daily ebb and flow of tides. Now, those records are becoming crucial for forecasting how fast sea levels are rising in a warming climate.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    Electrical grid transmission towers in Pasadena, Calif. Major power outages from extreme weather have risen dramatically in the past two decades.
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    It's Not Just Texas. The Entire Energy Grid Needs An Upgrade For Extreme Weather

    Feb 28, 2021
    The Texas blackout is a reminder that climate-driven extreme weather stresses the U.S.'s power system in many ways. Much is needed to harden the grid for the future as the number of outages increase.
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    Animals
    Millions of monarch butterflies arrive each year in Mexico after travelling, in some cases, thousands of miles from the United States and Canada.
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    Climate Change, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Butterfly Migration

    Feb 26, 2021
    The population of monarch butterflies that migrated south to Mexico to hibernate fell 26% from a year earlier.
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    The Colorado River Basin’s Worsening Dryness In Five Numbers

    Feb 22, 2021

    Dry conditions are the worst they’ve been in almost 20 years across the Colorado River watershed, which acts as the drinking and irrigation water supply for 40 million people in the American Southw

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    Science

    A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat

    Feb 21, 2021
    More than 4 million homes face financial losses from flooding. Communities where flood insurance is already unaffordable are facing potentially catastrophic damage.
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    Environment And Energy Collaborative
    A lower-carbon natural gas flame burns on a stovetop at a NW Natural testing facility.
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    Natural Gas Companies Have Their Own Plans To Go Low-Carbon

    Feb 21, 2021
    The companies face an existential threat as more governments and businesses move to tackle climate change. So a growing number have their own plans to decarbonize, by creating renewable gas.
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    Environment
    Smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the sky at sunset in September near Emmet, Kan.
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    U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Agreement On Climate Change

    Feb 19, 2021
    The United States on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change. The landmark 2016 accord is designed to limit global warming and avoid its potentially catastrophic impacts.
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    Conservation Network Gets Behind Five Bills for '21 Legislature

    Feb 03, 2021

    Nevada has made climate change a priority.

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    Environment
    President Biden has set a goal of making the U.S. carbon neutral by 2050, which will require steeper emissions cuts than the U.S. has ever achieved. To reach it, coal power would have to wane into a footnote, replaced by renewables like solar and wind.
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    How Fast Will Biden Need To Move On Climate? Really, Really Fast

    Feb 02, 2021
    Scientists say the next decade is crucial for slowing climate change. To catch up, Biden's environmental policies will have to move faster than any in history.
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    Union Station and the Kansas City skyline are lit on Feb. 01, 2021 in Kansas City, Mo. In June 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its plan to move two of its research agencies out of Washington, D.C., to the Kansas City area. Rather than
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    USDA Research Agencies 'Decimated' By Forced Move. Undoing The Damage Won't Be Easy

    Feb 02, 2021
    When the Trump administration moved two of the Agriculture Department's research agencies to Kansas City, many of the experienced employees left. Fixing this will be tricky for President Biden.
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    Science
    Protestors attempt to block the delivery of toxic PCB waste to a landfill in Warren County, North Carolina, 1982. It was in response to the State's decision to locate a hazardous waste landfill in a low-income, predominantly Black area of Warren County t
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    Hope And Skepticism As Biden Promises To Address Environmental Racism

    Jan 29, 2021
    Environmental racism means that people of color experience more air and water pollution than white people, and suffer the health impacts. Can Biden change that?
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    Science
    Baltimore is struggling to pay for the massive infrastructure and public health costs associated with global warming. As in many cities, flood risk has dramatically increased as the Earth has gotten hotter.
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    Supreme Court Considers Baltimore Suit Against Oil Companies

    Jan 19, 2021
    Overwhelmed sewers. Flooded streets. Deadly heat waves. Baltimore is one of many American cities where the costs of climate change far exceed local resources. Should oil companies pay?
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    When Wildfire Burns A High Mountain Forest, What Happens To The Snow?

    Jan 06, 2021

    Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars.

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    Science
    A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.
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    Trump EPA Erects New Barriers To Crucial Science

    Jan 05, 2021
    Studies based on private health data are crucial to understanding dangers posed by pollution. A new rule makes it harder for the EPA to consider many studies when setting safeguards.
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    Business
    Hurricane Laura sends large waves crashing on a beach in Cameron, La., on Aug. 26 as an offshore oil rig appears in the distance. The most active hurricane season on record was just one of many challenges facing the oil industry this year — aside from
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    It Wasn't Just The Pandemic: Oil's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

    Dec 31, 2020
    The coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand stole all the headlines. But oil companies faced a myriad of other woes, too, from hurricanes to itchy investors — and, of course, climate change.
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    Biden Transition Updates
    Michael Regan currently leads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and previously worked on air quality policy at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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    Biden To Pick North Carolina Regulator Michael Regan To Lead EPA

    Dec 17, 2020
    Regan is the top environmental regulator for North Carolina. He would be first African American man to run the EPA, and he would oversee much of the federal government's response to climate change.
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    Europe
    A jetliner arrives at London's Heathrow Airport earlier this year. On Wednesday, the U.K.'s highest court reversed a ban on the airport's controversial plans for a third runway.
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    U.K.'s Top Court Lifts Ban On Heathrow's Plans For 3rd Runway

    Dec 16, 2020
    The unanimous judgment represents a stinging reversal for climate activists, who had won a lower-court ruling earlier this year against the major international hub on environmental grounds.
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    Environment
    People watch the Blue Cut Fire in Lytle Creek, Calif., in 2016.
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    U.N. Report: In The Age Of Humans, 'The Dominant Risk To Our Survival Is Ourselves'

    Dec 15, 2020
    On the United Nations' new Planetary Pressures-Adjusted Human Development Index, the United States drops 45 places from its overall ranking, a reflection of the country's outsize environmental impact.
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    Science
    Former Secretary of State, John Kerry poses on Martha's Vineyard in Vineyard Haven, Mass., on Sept. 18, 2020.
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    As Climate Envoy, Kerry To Seek 'Ambition' With 'Humility'

    Dec 10, 2020
    One challenge facing John Kerry in his new role as climate envoy to President-elect Joe Biden will be to convince other governments the U.S. will abide by its commitments.
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    Nevada Outlines Strategy To Combat Climate Change

    Dec 04, 2020

    Earlier this week, Nevada 

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    Shots - Health News
    A Portland, Ore., resident wears a respirator to protect himself from wildfire smoke as he jogs in downtown in September 2020.
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    'We Don't Have To Live This Way': Doctors Call For Climate Action

    Dec 02, 2020
    Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.
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    Dec 03, 2020
    The Return of Vegas Vickie | A Desert Mystery | Media Sommelier | We Love NCIS For Some Reason
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    Environment
    Activists march to Shell's headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, in April 2019, delivering a legal summons to the company. The civil case began Tuesday, with plaintiffs demanding the company reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.
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    Climate Case Against Shell Begins In The Netherlands

    Dec 01, 2020
    The case was brought by a group of environmental organizations and more than 17,000 Dutch citizens. They demand that Shell be forced to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030.
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    In Yellowstone, America’s “First Water Park,” Decades-Old Blaze Marked Start Of Megafire Era

    Nov 24, 2020

    National Park Service hydrologist Erin White likes to call Yellowstone “America’s first water park.” 

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