How SUVs conquered the world — at the expense of its climate
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They are the hulking cars that have conquered the world. Spreading from the heartlands of...
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Why some US cities are plotting a ‘green recovery’ after the pandemic
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The cars that typically throng the huge highways weaving through Los Angeles are...
View ArticleCarbon capture ‘moonshot’ moves closer as billions of dollars pour in
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the world dices with the climate emergency, businesses and governments are...
View ArticleThe climate crisis is breaking open generational rifts in US families
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The climate crisis lingers in the back of Gemma Gutierrez’s mind, a gnawing anxiety...
View ArticleA Massachusetts city will post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first U.S. city to mandate the placing of...
View ArticleGlobal heating could stabilize if countries go net-zero emissions, scientists...
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world may be barreling towards climate disaster but rapidly eliminating...
View ArticleUS rejoins Paris accord with warning: This year’s talks are ‘last, best hope’
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The U.S. has marked its return to the Paris Agreement by urging countries to do...
View ArticleNASA leads push for electric planes in next frontier of cutting emissions
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the next year, at a research site on the fringes of the Mojave desert in...
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‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Long famed for its spectacular fishing, sprawling coral reefs and literary...
View ArticleBiden’s clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Biden administration plan to force the rapid uptake of renewable energy would...
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Huge ‘heat dome’ expected to bring punishing temperatures to the US. Again.
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The most extensive heat wave of a scorching summer is set to descend upon much of...
View ArticleBiden-backed ‘blue’ hydrogen may pollute more than coal, study finds
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The large infrastructure bill passed by the U.S. Senate and hailed by Joe Biden as...
View ArticleDenser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In San Francisco’s Sunset District, rows and rows of pastel-colored, two-storey...
View ArticleFlood survivors urge Congress to change inadequate insurance
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With towns and cities across the United States increasingly deluged by ferocious...
View ArticleA third of Americans are already facing above-average warming
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than a third of the American population is currently experiencing rapid,...
View Article‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist, it was meant to be...
View ArticleGlobal heating risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Global heating is causing such a drastic change to the world’s oceans that it...
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The world’s biggest carbon capture facility is being built in Texas. Will it...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rising out of the arid scrubland of western Texas is the world’s largest project...
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Welcome to Buckeye, the desert city out to surpass Phoenix by importing water
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Arizona, stressed by years of drought, has declared its house-building boom will...
View ArticleThe US aims to ‘crack the code’ on scaling up geothermal energy production
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A limitless supply of heat exists beneath our feet within the Earth’s crust, but...
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