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With help from Project 2025, Trump will stall all attempts to avert the climate crisis, accelerating a catastrophe that we have only a few years to prevent.
Jun 5, 2024 / Featured / Bill McKibben
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It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Win Back Rural Voters It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Win Back Rural Voters
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May 17, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson and Anthony Flaccavento
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Bootstrapped publications like mine do their best to keep the news alive in communities now struggling just to survive.
May 15, 2024 / Jane Braxton Little
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How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists
A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.
May 15, 2024 / Molly Taft
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The powerful El Niño weather event and climate change have pushed global temperatures to new heights.
May 3, 2024 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo
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Record-Breaking! Record-Breaking!
2024 already has the hottest recorded temperatures.
Apr 25, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
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In the Race to Lower Global Emissions, the Middle East Is Certainly Not Helping In the Race to Lower Global Emissions, the Middle East Is Certainly Not Helping
Some of the countries facing the biggest threat from the climate crisis seem all too intent on making it far worse.
Apr 25, 2024 / Juan Cole
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Earth Day Earth Day
April 22 is Earth Day! Let’s contribute towards making every day Earth Day.
Apr 22, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
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The costs of climate change are falling on those least responsible. This year, we must ask our elected officials for more than just flimsy commitments to sustainability.
Apr 22, 2024 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen