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Topic: Environment (page 22)

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Words that defined our planet in 2019

Kate Yoder - Grist
Greta Thunberg, the climate strike, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

2020s: The "OK Boomer" Decade?

Amanda Marcotte
A gas flare at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 in Williston, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Big Oil spends big money to clean up

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Humanity's plastic problem

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
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Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

Climate politics went mainstream in 2019

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

The statistic of the decade

Liberty Vittert - The Conversation
This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. It’s also imperiling the Bahamas, where the storm is expected to hit by Sunday. (NOAA via AP) (AP)

Shrinking budgets, rising seas

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after the G-20 Summit on June 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

Trade deal to worsen climate change

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
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Split of participants at the Climate Summit in Madrid, and protestors from the Global Climate Strike (Getty Images/Salon)

Does UN climate summit even matter?

Carl Pope
Fighting for a future: Young protesters at the Global Climate Strike in London on March 15, 2019. (Garry Knight/Flickr)

A year of resistance

Joe Curnow, Anjali Helferty - The Conversation
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Federal Toxmap shutters

Michael Schulson - Undark
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/Seth Wenig)

Time running out to pass NY climate law

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
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Giant sequoia redwood tree in Tuolumne Grove of Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, California, 2016. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Does forest thinning save the redwoods?

Becki Robins - Undark
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Wildfire smoke is getting worse

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a Chinese boy cycles past cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China. Led by cutbacks in China and India, construction of new coal-fired power plants is falling worldwide, improving chances climate goals can be met despite earlier pessimism, three environmental groups said Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) (AP)

Coal isn’t dying. It moved to Asia

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Does pollution poison the mind?

Hillel Aron - FairWarning
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Tongass Roadless Rule under attack

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Exxon wins climate lawsuit in New York

Miyo McGinn - Grist
(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Move over, peak oil

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
An indigenous leader from Brazil takes part in a protest outside REPSOL Headquarters on December 08, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Indigenous leaders and activists are protesting in Madrid against oil contamination and the fossil fuel industry in Brazil because of the damage it provokes to the poorest communities, sea life, food supplies and the climate. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

The “new great divergence”

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
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Bears Ears National Monument (Getty/lightphoto)

Conflicting interest on Bears Ears panel

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. It’s also imperiling the Bahamas, where the storm is expected to hit by Sunday. (NOAA via AP) (AP)

"Hurricane truthers" are a thing now

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Climate crisis hurts fishing industry

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
Intense flames driven by extreme drought conditions, wind and hot weather sweep over a remote section of the San Bernardino National Forest during the Blue Cut Fire on August 18, 2016 near Wrightwood, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

CA voters top priority: climate change

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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