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Kate Yoder is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

Climate protesters hold a demonstration as they throw cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom on October 14, 2022. (Just Stop Oil / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Climate activists’ new, confrontational tactics aren’t popular. That’s kind of the point.

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Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Report: A hotter, wetter Arctic spells trouble for everyone

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks to supporters at a campaign rally on November 16, 2022 in McDonough, Georgia. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Herschel Walker, South Park, and the Prius: How loving gas-guzzlers became political

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Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

Pew poll: 42% of religious Americans pray for the environment

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Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

It’s not just Coca-Cola: Corporations have co-opted the UN climate talks

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gestures, walking out of the Senate Chamber, celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduct Act at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Democrats passed a major climate bill. Why aren’t more political ads touting it?

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General view during the Global Climate Strike March on October 02, 2020 in Durban, South Africa. According to media reports, the group demanded that individuals and governments must take stronger action against the effects of climate change and the emittance of the greenhouse gas. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Study: Climate anxiety is spreading all over the planet

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Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Starved of new talent: Young people are steering clear of oil jobs

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Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

Oil companies say they’re going green, but their investments tell another story

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U.S. President Joe Biden (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

Republicans want climate solutions — just not from Biden

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Top view of a paper bag full of canned food, fruits, vegetables, eggs, a milk bottle, berries, mushrooms, nuts, pasta, a chocolate bar and bread. (Getty Images)

Heatflation: How sizzling temperatures drive up food prices

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(Getty/PeopleImages)

The ugly produce industry faces an ugly question. Now it’s trying to solve it

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

The secrets to passing climate legislation — even in red states

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Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Methane emissions soar to highest level ever recorded

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

Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know

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The US Coast Guard is investigating a broken pipeline to this oil platform, named Elly, that has spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the sea off California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

The massive disconnect between Big Oil’s words and actions

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A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

The EPA is tackling pollution in “Cancer Alley”

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(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Yes, there’s a climate change version of Wordle now

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Antarctica (Getty Images/Johner Images)

Code red, glacier blood, megadrought: The defining words of 2021

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Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

“Climate crisis” has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary

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It’s not just you: Everyone is Googling “climate anxiety”

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Damage in the city of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, near montegut, Louisiana on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - The death toll from Hurricane Ida was expected to climb "considerably," Louisiana's governor warned Monday, as rescuers combed through the "catastrophic" damage wreaked as it tore through the southern United States as a Category 4 storm. (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Study: More than half of young people think “humanity is doomed”

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A collapsed bridge in Mexico Beach, Florida on October 12, 2018, two days after Hurricane Michael struck. (Charlotte Kesl for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Good news: the media is getting the facts right on climate change

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Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

The UN report is scaring people. But what if fear isn’t enough?

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