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Breathing Fire

Breathing Fire

Climate Central — As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air.
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Disaster and Neglect in Louisiana

Disaster and Neglect in Louisiana

Climate Central — The federal government has provided less than half of what Louisiana says it needs to recover from last year's deadly rainstorm.
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The Injustice of Atlantic City's Floods

The Injustice of Atlantic City's Floods

Climate Central — New Jersey's working class are forgotten as federal government funds fixes for wealthier neighbors.
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Pulp Fiction: The European Accounting Error That's Warming the Planet

Pulp Fiction: The European Accounting Error That's Warming the Planet

Climate Central — As the world tries to shift away from fossil fuels, the energy industry is turning to what seems to be an endless supply of renewable energy: wood.
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The Emu Has Landed (in India)

The Emu Has Landed (in India)

Audubon magazine — On a moonlit night, 150 miles from the Arabian Sea, a truck screeched to a halt along a monsoon-drenched highway.
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In California, a Bold Plan to Reshape the Central Valley Flood Plain

In California, a Bold Plan to Reshape the Central Valley Flood Plain

New York Times — Jacob Katz stood shin-deep in a flooded rice paddy that is often dried out at this time of year. He thrust his hand into a writhing mass of baby salmon in his net and plucked three of the silver fry from the wind-whipped water's surface.
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Climate Change Is Leaving Native Plants Behind

Climate Change Is Leaving Native Plants Behind

Climate Central — Willis Linn Jepson encountered a squat shrub while he was collecting botanical specimens on California's Mount Tamalpais in the fall of 1936.
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Prisoners of the Cosco Busan | East Bay Express

Prisoners of the Cosco Busan | East Bay Express

East Bay Express — When Liang Xian Zheng took a job working as the boatswain on the Cosco Busan, the seasoned seaman knew the $29.50-a-day gig would send him out to sea for six to ten months. He also knew it meant undertaking a wearisome 1,000-mile journey from his home in Beijing, China to the port of Busan in South Korea, where the container ship was based. But what Zheng couldn't have known was that, two weeks after boarding the cargo ship and ably performing his duties as a lookout during a crisis, he would be trapped in a foreign land on an exotic legal warrant, in misery and legal purgatory, until months after his seafaring expedition was supposed to have ended.
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'Ghost Forests' Appear As Rising Seas Kill Trees

'Ghost Forests' Appear As Rising Seas Kill Trees

Climate Central — Jennifer Walker stepped off her kayak into a wall of riverside grass. She steadied herself and stooped to scoop soil into a jar, then disappeared into the thicket for more. Analysis of amoeba fossils in the researcher's samples may help to explain why, jutting above the head-high marsh grass a couple hundred feet further back, cedar forest was dead.
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