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A part of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System runs through boreal forest past Alaska Range mountains on May 5, 2023 near Delta Junction, Alaska. The 800-mile-long pipeline carries oil from the North Slope in Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.
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Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates
Shanghai is one of the coastal cities significantly exposed to both land subsidence and projected sea level rise. Roughly a quarter of the country’s coasts will be lower than sea level, according to new research.
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270 million people are living on sinking land in China’s major cities, new study finds
Long Island, N.Y.: An operational wind turbine, along with two under construction behind it, and a lifting barge, are seen in this photo taken at the South Fork Wind Farm in the Atlantic Ocean, on December 7, 2023. (Photo by Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
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Offshore wind projects have been dogged by inflation and culture wars. Now they’re making a comeback
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Camels evolved from a cold-weather ancestor. We could learn from their remarkable transformation
BULL SHARK, Carcharhinus leucas, Carcharhinidae, Bahamas, The Caribbean
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How climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans
Coral bleaching in the lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef's Lady Elliot Island, on February 19, 2024.
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Ocean heat is driving a global coral bleaching event, and it could be the worst on record
This image provided by NOAA shows a smalltooth sawfish. Endangered smalltooth sawfish, marine creatures virtually unchanged for millions of years, are exhibiting erratic spinning behavior and dying in unusual numbers in Florida waters. Federal and state wildlife agencies are beginning an effort to rescue and rehabilitate sawfish to find out why. (NOAA via AP)
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Six rare sawfish deaths in 7 days have scientists baffled amid bizarre Florida fish behavior
A man walks through a dry section of the reservoir bed at Embalse La Regadera in Bogota, Colombia on April 8, 2024.
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One of the world’s highest cities starts rationing water for 9 million people
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 23: In an aerial view, Mount Markham, Eaton Canyon and San Gabriel Peak (R), in the San Gabriel Mountains within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest, are seen on June 23, 2023, above Pasadena, California. Today, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, and other officials will held a news conference to announce a strategy to protect the San Gabriel Mountains and expand the existing San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. As One of three bills within the Protecting Unique and Beautiful Landscapes by Investing in California (PUBLIC), proposed by Padilla, the San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act would increase the size of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by more than 109,000 acres to include part of the western Angeles National Forest, and would create a National Recreation Area along the San Gabriel Valley foothills and the Rio Hondo and San Gabriel River Corridors. The project would increase public lands access for millions of people in Los Angeles County which, according to Padilla, includes one of the nation's most park-poor and densely populated regions. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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Biden plans to expand 2 national monuments in California originally designated by Obama
A coal fired power plant in Hanchuan, Hubei province, China, on November 11, 2021.
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Coal power grew in 2023 driven by China’s expansion and a slowdown of US plant closures
Anne Mahrer and Rosmarie Wyder-Walti, of the Swiss group Senior Women for Climate Protection, after their victory at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France April 9, 2024.
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International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in landmark climate case brought by 2,000 women
A fisherman shows off his Pike-Pickerel Hybrid.
From Vermont Fish & Wildlife
From pizzly bears to strange fish, here’s why hybrid animal sightings are on the rise
A field of failed corn crops due to drought at a farm in Glendale, Zimbabwe, on Monday, March 11, 2024. A swathe of southern Africa about the size of France suffered the driest February in decades, killing crops and precipitating a power shortage that threatens to hit copper mines in a key producing region. Photographer: Cynthia R Matonhodze/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Tens of millions facing hunger and water shortages as extreme drought and floods sweep southern Africa
Volunteers of the Central University of Venezuela firefighter brigade battle a wildfire in Henri Pittier National Park in Maracay, Venezuela on March 29.
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Venezuela battles record wildfires worsened by Amazon drought
A group of pelicans flies low across the water as the sun sets near Tybee Island, Georgia, on January 10.
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Scientists are sounding the alarm about oceans, but Biden’s budget would slash research data
This photo taken on January 10, 2022 shows a worker (bottom C) sitting at a desk next to the Korean 'artificial sun', the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research device (KSTAR), at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) in Daejeon. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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‘Artificial sun’ sets record for time at 100 million degrees in latest advance for nuclear fusion