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Biden won the election. Now can he save the planet?

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A poll worker talks to people during curbside voting on April 7, 2020 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Residents in Wisconsin went to the polls a day after the U.S. Supreme Court voted against an extension of the absentee ballot deadline in the state. Because of the coronavirus, the number of polling places was drastically reduced. (Andy Manis/Getty Images)

Could this “army of environmental super voters” sway swing states?

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The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

This hidden doctrine could stymie climate action under the new Supreme Court

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U.S. Republican Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst speaks to the press after the Republican weekly policy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

These 4 toss-up Senate races might determine the fate of the plane

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Can Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis change his anti-science attitude?

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Amy Coney Barrett (University of Notre Dame)

Why Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court would be a climate disaster

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“Climate arsonist”: Biden slams Trump’s wildfire response with a new insult

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Chuck Schumer (Getty/Win McNamee)

3 ways the Senate Democrats’ new climate plan is all about money

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Armed protesters on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, demanding the reopening of businesses (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

What greater good? COVID crisis unmasks America’s collective action problem

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Activists of the international environmentalist organization Greenpeace pose with posters in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 13, 2014 to support clean energy. After a one week meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Berlin the final document which is released on Sunday is expected to say that a global shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels like oil and coal are required to avoid potentially devastating sea level rise, flooding, droughts and other impacts of warming. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) (Michael Sohn)

Responding to protests, green groups reckon with their own racist past

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Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

These scientists saw the coronavirus coming. Now they’re trying to stop the next pandemic

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To get coronavirus bailout money, the government is forcing airlines to fly “ghost planes”

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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2012, file photo, tourists make pictures under tropical palm trees in Singapore. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology project called Treepedia, that maps trees in the world's major cities, is making it easier to determine where more green is needed. Trees play a critical role in urban environments, helping keep cities cool, mitigating air and noise pollution and just making them more pleasant places to live and work. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) (AP)

Fact or fiction: Warmer weather slows down the coronavirus

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As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful “ghost flights”

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In this Dec. 30, 2016 photo, a truck leaves with metal products from the sprawling complex that is a part of the Jiujiang steel and rolling mills in Qianan in northern China's Hebei province. Faced with choking smog in the Chinese capital, Chinese media and policy circles often point to a list of culprits: the central government's inability to shut down polluting steel mills, the middle class's insatiable demand for cars, poorer segments of society's insistence on burning coal. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (AP)

The Paris Agreement set an unrealistic target for global warming. Now what?

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Kim McIntyre, from LaJolla, Calif., along with her dog Benji rest on the beach in Encinitas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. California is having another day of unseasonable warmth before a low-pressure system brings rain and snow. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) (AP)

Goodbye, January — goodbye, another heat record

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Did we almost solve the “super-wicked problem” of climate change — 30 years ago?

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In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile)

Move over, polar bears: Climate change has a new symbol

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Is Seattle’s straw ban a green gateway drug or just peak slactivism?

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (AP/Evan Vucci)

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy is retiring. Here’s what that means for the environment

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