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Aviation can meet Paris targets — if it makes massive changes

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The emptiness of Republicans’ new climate strategy

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U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron speak at a G7 summit on June 12, 2021. (Getty Images)

What Macron’s reelection means for climate action in France

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The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach

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Gasoline prices are displayed at a gas station on April 12, 2022 in San Mateo County, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images))

Why high gas prices aren’t necessarily good for the climate

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Wind turbines at a wind farm in Colorado City, Texas, January 21, 2016. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Inflation is at a 40-year high. Is clean energy the solution?

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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)

Biden’s 500,000 EV charging stations get a $5 billion start

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A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

Europe’s next climate challenge: Getting off Russian gas

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U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

This senator thought he had given his 279th and final speech on climate change. He was wrong.

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Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working

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A bike rider is pictured as an excessive heat warning remains in effect a day after record-breaking temperatures from a historic heatwave throughout the region in Seattle, Washington on June 29, 2021. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Is climate change amping up the Pacific Northwest heat wave? Yes — and it’s time to stop asking.

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Cicadas like to be on time. But are they getting confused by climate change?

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U.S. President Joe Biden stops to talk to the media after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on March 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden were traveling from Wilmington, Delaware, where they spent the weekend with family and friends. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Why Biden’s climate agenda might be very, very “quiet”

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Greg Abbott, Donald Trump and the snowstorm in Texas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Texas blackouts show that even the weather is polarized now

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Close up of scientist holding and analyzing planet earth (Getty Images)

25 states promised to stay in the Paris Agreement. Did they follow through?

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Teenage Climate Crisis activists from various climate activism groups protesting. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

38 countries have declared a “climate emergency.” Should the U.S. be next?

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Waterdrop on a green blade of grass reflecting our earth. (Getty Images)

Democrats flipped the Senate. So why is a Green New Deal still unlikely?

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What happens to the Resistance after the world’s loudest science denier leaves the White House?

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Can a city truly be 100% renewable? It’s complicated

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Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Congress takes action against “super greenhouse gases” in coronavirus stimulus

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Antonio Guterres and Greta Thunberg (Getty Images/Europa Press News/Europa Press/Marc Piscotty/Salon)

“The planet is broken,” UN chief says

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Joe Biden and John Kerry (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden’s appointment of John Kerry signals how the new administration will handle the climate crisis

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump gutted environmental protections. How quickly can Biden restore them?

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US President Donald Trump uses his cellphone as he holds a roundtable discussion with Governors about the economic reopening of closures due to COVID-19, known as coronavirus, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. voted out a climate denier, and world leaders jumped for joy

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