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A Puerto Rican flag waves on top of a pile of rubble as debris is removed from a main road in Guanica, Puerto Rico on January 8, 2020. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images)

Puerto Rico wasn’t ready for earthquakes — especially not after Hurricane Maria

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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)

5 ways we need to adapt to climate change — or pay the price

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From left, Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro resume their debate Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, after a break during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

How did the fate of the planet fare at the third Democratic debate?

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A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

How climate disasters can give us compassion fatigue

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Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on September 3, 2017, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (Getty/Karim Sahib)

Rising temperatures could endanger Muslims on Hajj pilgrimage

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A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Why FEMA isn’t prepared for the next major U.S. disaster

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Bernie Sanders; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/AP/Salon)

Bernie Sanders and AOC want to declare a climate emergency. Does that mean anything?

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Dozens of public health groups call for climate action

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The life-altering topic they’re not teaching you in school

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A worker from the Cobra Energy Company, contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers, installs power lines in the Barrio Martorel area of Yabucoa, a town where many residents continue without power in Puerto Rico. (AP/Carlos Giusti)

What will a Jones Act waiver mean for Puerto Rico’s 100 percent renewable energy goal?

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The White House calls food stamp funds for Puerto Rico “excessive and unnecessary”

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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a pedestrian passes the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees building in Utica, N.Y. Utica has been a refugee "oasis" for decades. Vietnamese, Bosnians, Somalians and Burmese have each found shelter in the city that has benefited from the infusion of house-proud residents who work in hospitals, factories and their own businesses. But now President Donald Trump's executive order crimping the flow of refugees has sent a shudder through the city in upstate New York. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink) (AP)

Tribes have climate wisdom — and good reason not to share it

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Presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, of the Social Liberal Party arrives to a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) (AP)

Brazil’s presidential election could have grave consequences for the planet

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A section of collapsed road after Hurricane Maria, October 7, 2017 in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Maria worsens economic uncertainty for Puerto Rican kids

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