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emissions

coal barge China

China pledged to cut emissions. It went on a coal spree instead.

By Michael Standaert | Climate Change

wildfire on mountain reflected in lake

Underground “zombie” peat fires release 100 times the carbon of wildfires

By Matt Simon | Climate Change

sunset, waves, ocean

By 2050, climate change in the ocean could be seven times faster

By Graham Readfearn | Climate Change

highway sign drought

The climate crisis explained, in 7 numbers

By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, Lydia O’Connor | Climate Change

SUV shaming: I care about climate change, so why am I driving an SUV?

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists, Opinion

Trump tweet about global warming

Trump to Paris Agreement: Drop dead

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Mandy Gunasekara, who founded a nonprofit to tout the Trump administration’s environmental gains, spoke to environmental journalists in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 11. Credit: SEJ

Declining US greenhouse gas emissions: a Republican fairy tale

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists, Opinion

loading rail cars from above

Trump’s oil leases to release more greenhouse gases than EU does in entire year

By Emily Holden | Climate Change

“You can’t preach temperance from a barstool.”

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

New York to Trump: Cut your emissions or pay the price

By Oliver Milman | Analysis, Climate Change

The Trump campaign plans to brag about how it reduced greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. But 2018, and the overall trend, don’t look so good.

A short-lived White House climate “victory”

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

The incredible shrinking nuclear offset to climate change

By Sharon Squassoni | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy