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  BREAKING: The Commerce secretary threatened to fire NOAA officials in a fight over President Trump's incorrect warnings about Alabama and Hurricane Dorian. nyti.ms/2UIjZVX
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  Greta's crew: school-age climate activists strike across Europe. Last Sunday, an estimated 80,000 took part in French cities — more than turned out for the “Yellow Vest” protests the day before.
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  The disaster raised fears of what is to come: Scientists, who said the breaking of a glacier in the middle of the winter appeared to be a result of climate change, have warned that rising temperatures are melting the Himalayan glaciers at an alarming pace.
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  The number of Americans who feel passionately about climate change is rising sharply, and the issue appears likely to play a more important role in this year’s election than ever before, a new survey shows. nyti.ms/3aTL14O
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  President Biden is restoring three national monuments that had been severely shrunk by former President Donald J. Trump: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and the National Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the coast of New England.
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  “It turns out my release of six crypto-artworks consumed in 10 seconds more electricity than the entire studio over the past 2 years,” wrote Joanie Lemercier, a French artist. “It felt like madness to even consider continuing that practice.”
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  Cold, you say? What about climate change? Here ya go.
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  The Trump administration on Monday relaxed strict Obama-era standards for how coal-fired power plants dispose of wastewater laced with dangerous pollutants like lead, selenium and arsenic.
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  Ethiopia aims to plant four billion trees before the fall to combat climate change and deforestation. It said it planted over 350 million seedlings on Monday alone.
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  The E.P.A. is easing restrictions on lead, mercury and other toxic discharges from coal plants into waterways.
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  "if you look at must-pass legislation, this Congress is engaged in climate denial,” says
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  Driving is down, so emissions are down — so much that satellites can see the difference.
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  “We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.” nyti.ms/2DacHls
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  If Americans would extend the life of their cellphones by one year, for instance, it would be the climate-saving equivalent of taking 636,000 cars off the road, or about the amount of passenger vehicles registered in the state of New Mexico.