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It’s not just oceans that are rising. Groundwater is, too

Julia Kane, Lina Tran, Diana Kruzman
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Here’s what’s in the Senate’s $369 billion climate and energy bill

Julia Kane, Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein
Giant sequoia redwood tree in Tuolumne Grove of Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley, California, 2016. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Forest Service announces emergency plan to save giant sequoias

Julia Kane
A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

Cryptomining uses a “disturbing” amount of energy, lawmakers find

Julia Kane
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Americans are coming around on electric cars

Julia Kane
Hundreds of wind turbines are viewed along Highway 111 and Interstate 10 on March 7, 2022 near Palm Springs, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Better late than never: Biden administration unveils new push for offshore wind

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An aerial picture shows bergy bits and growlers floating in front of the Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk (aslo spelled Qulusuk), a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality located on the island of the same name on the southeastern shore of Greenland. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Red alert: Portions of the Arctic are warming much faster than we thought

Julia Kane
View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

As a heat wave grips the U.S., lessons from the hottest city in America

Julia Kane
Satellite view of the eye of a tropical storm, hurricane (Getty Images/Naeblys)

A Pacific hurricane may kick off yet another hectic Atlantic hurricane season

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View of redwood trees from the forest floor (Getty Images/James Yu)

Yes, you can save lives by planting trees, a new study says

Julia Kane
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

A new Office of Environmental Justice is announced

Julia Kane
Oil well pads operated by Continental Resources dot the wheat fields of eastern Montana north east of Sidney, Montana in Richland County in the Bakken oil formation. (William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images)

Historically redlined neighborhoods have twice the number of oil and gas wells

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U.S. President Joe Biden (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden allocates $3 billion for low-income families to retrofit homes

Julia Kane
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Switching to zero-emission cars and trucks could save over 100,000 lives over the next three decades

Julia Kane
Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

Critics respond to EPA’s plan to rein in trucking pollution

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Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

The Biden administration is updating truck pollution standards

Julia Kane