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India’s Extraordinary Heat Wave Exposes the Limits of Protecting People

Temperatures are soaring across South Asia, testing dangerous thresholds. How much is climate change to blame? It’s becoming an ‘obsolete question,’ one scientist says.

City Living, With Less Water

Los Angeles and Santiago are two of the latest cities to impose strict water restrictions in an effort to avoid disastrous shortages in the future.

Climate Queries, Asked and Answered

Paris? Volcanoes? Computer models? Reporters from the Climate Desk tackled a wide range of intriguing questions sent by readers.

How Recycling Got So Baffling

Plastic waste is everywhere, and today’s recycling systems fall far short of fixing the global mess. Here’s why, and what needs to change.

China doubles down on coal

Choices being made about energy in the country right now will have profound implications for the climate crisis.

We have the tools to slow warming

We actually have a better shot than we did a few years ago, according to a new United Nations report. But powerful interests stand in...

Here’s what Biden’s budget would do, and not do, for climate change

The president’s federal spending proposal for the next year contains almost $45 billion to deal with global warming. We looked at the details.

Follow the global youth protests this week

Demonstrations are planned for Friday, so we looked at what drives the movement. Here are four takeaways.

Climate change is making armed conflict worse. Here’s how.

Warming is “unambiguously worsening” conditions that contribute to clashes and deepen the pain for civilians, a new study says.
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