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Can Bacteria Serve as ‘Microscopic Miners’ of the Metals We Need?

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“This story was originally published on the author’s substack, Field Notes with Alexander C Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here.” Five years after President Donald Trump signaled his support for extracting metals from the moon, his new administration is seeking to satisfy the United States’ hunger for critical minerals by encouraging mining under the polar ice caps, amid warzones, and at […]

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What’s One Way to Help Preserve the Antarctic Climate? Penguin Poop.

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New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation and persistence of low clouds, which cool the climate by reflecting some incoming sunlight back to space. The findings reinforce the growing awareness that Earth’s intricate web of life plays a significant role in […]

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Another Trump Casualty: A Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

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This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that maintains the US framework of spatial information: latitudes, longitudes, vertical measurements like elevation, and even measurements of Earth’s gravitational field. […]

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Sea Level Rise Will Cause “Catastrophic Inland Migration”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned. This scenario may unfold even if the average level of heating over the last decade of […]

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The Paris Agreement Target for Warming Still Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sea levels in some parts of the world could be rising by as much as 8 to 12 inches per decade within the lifetime of today’s youngest generations, outpacing the ability of many coastal communities to adapt, scientists warned […]

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For Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum There’s “Plenty of Time” to Solve Climate Crisis

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US has “plenty of time” to solve the climate crisis,” the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, told a House committee on Tuesday. The comment came on his first of two days of testimony to House and Senate appropriators in which he defended Donald Trump’s […]

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Unpacking the Flaws of Techbro Dreams of the Future

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This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Elon Musk once joked: “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” Musk is, in fact, deadly serious about colonizing the Red Planet. Part of his motivation is the idea of having a “back-up” planet in case some […]

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Trump’s Pick to Lead Workplace Safety Agency Will Derail Heat Protections, Advocates Fear

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the US prepares for what could be another record-breaking hot summer, Donald Trump and his pick to lead the nation’s workplace safety agency are expected to derail the creation of the nation’s first-ever federal labor protections from extreme heat. Trump in February nominated David […]

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Redlining Shaped the Power Grid. Communities of Color Are Still Paying the Price.

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This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. As an ice storm slicked roads across eastern Michigan on February 6, representatives from four houses of worship arrived at the offices of Democratic US Sen. Gary Peters.  They wanted Peters to pressure the Trump administration to lift the […]

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How Pope Leo Will Approach Climate Change Is Unclear, but the Vibe Is Positive

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never […]

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Trump Administration Aims to Roll Back Limits on Toxic “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to rescind and postpone rules limiting “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were enacted under the Biden administration and designed to prevent millions of people from exposure to these persistent and dangerous contaminants. […]

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Dudes Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Women Do. It’s the Cars—and the Meat.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cars and meat are major factors driving a gender gap in greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests. Men emit 26 pecent more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France. The gap shrinks to […]

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