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How heat waves form, and how climate change makes them worse

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How one weather extreme can make the next one even more dangerous

29.05.2024 9

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Your home insurance company dumped you. Now what?

23.05.2024 80500

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You might have another chance to see the northern lights tonight

The stunning green and purple auroras that sparkled in the night across the continental United States this week are the latest entry in a...

14.05.2024 40

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Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency

Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel by far, producing more particulate air pollution and global warming gasses than any other, per unit of energy. But...

10.05.2024 30

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How La Niña will shape heat and hurricanes this year

The Pacific Ocean — Earth’s largest body of water — is an engine for weather around the planet, and it’s about to shift gears this year. The...

01.05.2024 40

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We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

Earth is coming out of the hottest year on record, amplifying the destruction from hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and drought. The oceans remain...

25.04.2024 60

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Our appliances are more efficient than ever. Why doesn’t it feel like it?

22.04.2024 10

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Why we need to take seemingly small earthquakes seriously

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocked the East Coast midmorning on Friday, sending high rises swaying in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware....

05.04.2024 6

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The solar eclipse is a critical test for the US power grid

As the moon passes in front of the sun on April 8, its shadow will knock down solar power production in a sweeping band across the United States from...

05.04.2024 30

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We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

The largest earthquakes in nearly 25 years rocked Taiwan on Wednesday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring hundreds more. The magnitude...

03.04.2024 10

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Why fossil fuel producers are oddly optimistic in the climate change era

HOUSTON, Texas — In a video message projected onto massive screens in a packed conference hall, Sultan al-Jaber, the president of the COP28 climate...

29.03.2024 9

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Meet the EPA’s new Choose Your Own Adventure! regulation for car pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency has officially cemented new pollution rules for cars, pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs that the Biden administration...

21.03.2024 30

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Texas fires happen in the winter. Just never at this scale before.

Dozens of wildfires are tearing through the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma after igniting earlier this week, including what’s now the second-largest...

29.02.2024 20

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What’s happening to our winters?

27.02.2024 5

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Winter heat waves are now a thing. Here’s how to make sense of them.

27.02.2024 3

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Carmakers pumped the brakes on hybrid cars too soon

Are electric vehicles hitting a pothole? Ford announced last month that it was cutting production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck....

14.02.2024 40

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How California’s torrential, life-threatening storms got so bad

A brutal winter storm is battering the West Coast with torrential downpours in the south, blizzards in the north, and winds gusting up to 160 miles...

06.02.2024 60

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The great American natural gas reckoning is upon us

The Biden administration last week announced that it was pausing the permitting process for some new natural gas export projects, including a facility...

30.01.2024 10

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Your home’s cleaner, better heating system comes with one major cost

The recent deep, biting chill that froze the United States forced millions of furnaces to switch on at the same time, raising energy demand to new...

23.01.2024 5

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Why have our winters gotten so weird?

Bitter cold continues to grip the United States as unusual freezing temperatures stretch as far south as Florida this week. Even more chilly weather...

19.01.2024 9

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How 7 scientists feel after the hottest year on record

2023 is the hottest year in at least 174 years and recent months have been the hottest in 125,000 years. All of that warming led to deadly heat waves,...

27.12.2023 7

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3 wins and 3 losses at the biggest climate conference ever

14.12.2023 3

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Pledges to slash methane pollution at COP28 are leaving out one big thing

11.12.2023 2

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The severe El Niño in South America is a preview of a climate-changed world

11.12.2023 50

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