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Drain the swamp? Yeah, right. Donald Trump just assigned another fox to guard the henhouse—a fox that happens to be the top pick of one of Trump's oil billionaire donors, Harold Hamm. Wrote it up for @MotherJones motherjones.com/politics/202…
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At an event late last week in Arizona, anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. said he’d fire and replace 600 people from the National Institutes of Health on “day one” of a second Trump term. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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“What’s the result of all this fossil fuel industry money in commission elections?” said Daniel Tait of @EnergyandPolicy, a utility watchdog. “Very little renewable energy, and in some cases, like Alabama and Mississippi, overt hostility” to renewables. ow.ly/wJ9g50TYRhc
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What the Senate contest says about the unexpected shift in Western politics.
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The final days of this election season are wearying for the researchers and advocates of the transition away from fossil fuels.
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"Hundreds of millions of Americans are about to have an unexpected collision with planetary reality."
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Wetlands absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The Coeur d’Alene’s restoration would do more than just that.
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Bolivia is having an unprecedented wildfire season. Climate change and rampant deforestation are fueling the blazes.
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After Hurricane Milton hit, Florida deployed an atmospheric water generator—a machine that creates drinking water from air—to a hospital that lost its water supply. Could these bulky, expensive machines someday be practical in emergency scenarios? wired.com/story/milton-disru…
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Investigative journalism sometimes presumes that sharing information publicly is a public good. But Indigenous reporters can’t make that assumption.
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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? theguardian.com/environment/…
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The US Forest Service will not hire temporary seasonal employees for the next year. Public land management is sure suffer. A collab between @highcountrynews and @voxdotcom
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"We’ve looked from Mount Everest to the deep sea, from the poles to the equator. We’ve found microplastics everywhere."
Richard Thompson, who first discovered microplastics 20 years ago, explains why we urgently need a global treaty on plastic pollution.
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Author and geoscientist Paul Bierman shares a story that didn’t make it into his recent book, “When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future” undark.org/2024/09/06/wilo-g…
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It's not just about who's going to be president. If you live in the West, there's a lot on the ballot that will directly affect your life. @Land_Desk offers a look for @highcountrynews hcn.org/issues/56-10/the-dow…
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As Hurricane Milton surges closer to Florida, a whole host of conspiracy theorists are claiming the hurricane was planned in order to harm Republicans.
Climate experts tell WIRED that’s impossible.
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People still pay a premium to live in the riskiest places. slate.trib.al/SgvrU4q
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How to know when a disaster response is going well and when it’s going poorly. trib.al/UVZR84t
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Meteorologist @JohnMoralesTV on what makes Hurricane Milton so remarkably dangerous. ⬇️
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