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In Helene’s Wake, Legal Battles Over Insurance and Who Should Pay

October 2, 2024 - 16:59
As storms intensify, so do the legal clashes with insurers, aid agencies and others over compensation, rebuilding and even scams.
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Tesla Sales Increase, Suggesting Electric Car Demand Is Rebounding

October 2, 2024 - 16:27
The automaker reported a gain of 6.4 percent for the latest quarter, its first such increase this year.
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How the VP Candidates Talked About Climate Change

October 2, 2024 - 15:19
Tim Walz said climate change is real, but boasted about high U.S. levels of oil and gas production. JD Vance called climate change “weird science.”
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London Lets Its Gardens Grow Wild

October 2, 2024 - 15:04
In response to concerns over climate change and plummeting biodiversity, a shift is afoot in the city’s parks. Manicured is out; rugged is in.
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Why Hurricane Helene Won’t Provoke Action on Climate Change

October 2, 2024 - 15:00
Extreme climate was supposed to shock us into action. What happened?
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Hurricane Helene Deaths Will Continue for Years, Study Suggests

October 2, 2024 - 11:00
Research on hundreds of tropical storms finds that mortality keeps rising for more than a decade afterward, for reasons you might not expect.
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Climate ‘Abandonment’ Zones Are Coming to the American South

October 2, 2024 - 05:01
The exodus of the young means high-risk towns could enter a population death spiral.
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Exchange on Climate Change Shows Gulf Between Vance and Walz

October 1, 2024 - 22:19
As Hurricane Helene made climate change an early focus of the vice-presidential debate, the running mates quickly demonstrated the stark differences between the parties on the issue.
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Why Restoring Power After Helene Is Complicated

October 1, 2024 - 17:06
Damage went beyond downed power lines. Hundreds of substations went out after the storm. Getting them back online is difficult.
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‘Climate Havens’ Don’t Exist

October 1, 2024 - 14:31
The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
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Por qué Helene causó tanto daño, incluso lejos de la costa

October 1, 2024 - 12:07
Los huracanes suelen debilitarse en tierra. Pero si el suelo ya está húmedo por lluvias anteriores, los ciclones pueden recibir un impulso adicional.
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Why Helene Was So Destructive in Florida, the Carolinas and Appalachia

September 30, 2024 - 15:25
Hurricanes typically weaken over land. But if the ground is already wet from earlier rains, storms can receive an extra jolt that keeps them churning.
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Around the World, Diplomats Gird for a Trump Assault on Climate Action

September 30, 2024 - 11:44
Some leaders insist that the global clean energy transition will happen with or without the United States.
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U.S. Approves Aid to Restart Palisades Nuclear Plant

September 30, 2024 - 10:49
No one has ever restarted an American nuclear reactor that was seemingly closed for good. But with electricity demand spiking, interest is growing.
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Britain Shuts Down Last Coal Plant, ‘Turning Its Back on Coal Forever’

September 30, 2024 - 10:26
The Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant was the last surviving coal-burning power station in a country that birthed the Industrial Revolution and fed it with coal.
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Where Americans Have Been Moving Into Disaster-Prone Areas

September 30, 2024 - 09:09
As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.
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U.S. Ramps Up Hunt for Uranium to End Reliance on Russia

September 30, 2024 - 05:02
Miners aim to meet a growing demand for emissions-free energy, though a failure to clean up old sites haunts the industry.
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Britain Is the First Major Economy to Stop Using Coal. It’s a Risky Experiment.

September 30, 2024 - 02:06
Few in Britain will mourn the passing of coal, but it’s hard not to feel a little nervous about what, at its heart, is an experiment, one fraught with danger.
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Nepal Flooding and Landslides Kill at Least 170 People

September 29, 2024 - 13:59
The mountainous country is experiencing more extreme weather driven by climate change, including melting glaciers that add to the frequency and severity of flooding.
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At Least 66 Die as Persistent Monsoon Rains Inundate Nepal

September 28, 2024 - 10:45
Disasters in the small Himalayan nation have become more frequent as the effects of climate change increase.
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