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In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016, Bill Crowell shows his garden made to use less water at his home in the Fountaingrove neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Calif. California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation's biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (AP)

Lawns are the No. 1 irrigated “crop” in America. They need to die.

Eric Holthaus
FILE - In this May 1, 2013, file photo, an electric bus produced by China's BYD Co., is parked at the announcement of the opening of an electric bus manufacturing plant in Lancaster, Calif. The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan and GM combined is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (AP)

Batteries are key to clean energy — and they just got much cheaper

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Anchorage, Alaska (Getty/Chilkoot)

Climate change could push tropical diseases to Alaska, according to a new study

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An aerial view shows part of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, which is one of Africa's richest ecosystems, with forests, grassland, a lake and a mountain. (AP Photo/Christopher Torchia) (AP)

Mozambique floods cover more ground than NYC, Chicago, D.C., and Boston — combined

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FILE - In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 file photo, Amtrak worker Rich Woolfolk checks railroad tracks along the Northeast Corridor in Elizabeth, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (AP)

I love taking long-distance trains. Here’s why I’m thrilled Amtrak might cut them back.

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FILE - This Nov. 11, 2016 file photo shows Blood Falls, bottom left, and the Taylor Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. (Mark Ralston/Pool Photo via AP, File) (AP)

Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies

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(AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Valve turners try to shut off Minnesota pipelines, say “politicians won’t act”

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This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. ((AP Photo/NASA))

Don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a big hole in the world’s most important glacier

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2137532p1.html'>Frederic Legrand</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Minnesota winters ain’t what they used to be

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In this March 3, 2015 photo, visitors aboard a boat watch as a gray whale surfaces in the Pacific Ocean waters of the San Ignacio lagoon, near the town of Guerrero Negro, in Mexico's Baja California peninsula. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (AP)

The debate is over: The oceans are in hot, hot water

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FILE - This Nov. 11, 2016 file photo shows Blood Falls, bottom left, and the Taylor Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. (Mark Ralston/Pool Photo via AP, File) (AP)

Antarctic sea ice is “astonishingly” low this melt season

Eric Holthaus
This GOES East satellite image taken Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. (NOAA via AP)

It’s not the economy, stupid: Here’s why focusing on money misses the big climate picture

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(Ryan Dorgan/Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File)

The election cleared the way for bold climate policy in these 6 states

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This GOES East satellite image taken Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. (NOAA via AP)

U.N. climate report shows civilization is at stake if we don’t act now

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Augustin Dieudomme looks out at the flooded entrance to his apartment complex as it continues to rise in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Fayetteville, N.C., Sept. 18, 2018. (AP/David Goldman)

Florence is the worst flood in East Coast history. Here is how locals describe it

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(AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Courage and bolt cutters: The next generation of climate activists

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(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Now even Glacier National Park is on fire — and yes, climate change is making things worse

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(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Terrified by “hothouse Earth”? Don’t despair — do something

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Julia+Tsokur'>Julia Tsokur</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Move over, Bitcoin bros: A green cryptocurrency is here

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(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

The world is hot, on fire, and flooding. Climate change is here

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(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

The West is burning

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(Paul Aiken/Daily Camera via AP)

We’ve entered the era of “fire tsunamis”

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James Hansen’s legacy: Scientists reflect on climate change in 1988, 2018, and 2048

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Scott Heins)

With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, Congress will likely gain a new climate champion

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