climate change
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PublishedApril 24, 2021
Mexico’s drought reaches critical levels as lakes dry up
Mexico City's 9 million inhabitants rely on reservoirs like Villa Victoria and two others – which together are at about 44% capacity – for a quarter of their water.
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PublishedApril 24, 2021
Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming
America’s climate summit was designed to send the world off on a fast start toward Glasgow negotiations in November, and experts said it did so.
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PublishedApril 23, 2021
Go forth and spend: Call for action on commitments closes U.S. climate summit
President Biden's own pledge, nearly doubling the U.S. target for cutting emissions from coal and petroleum this decade, depends on his keeping political support from voters and securing more than $2 trillion for a nationwide infrastructure overhaul.
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PublishedApril 23, 2021
U.S. will cut emissions by as much as 52% by 2030, Biden pledges at world summit
World leaders put aside their other differences and promise international cooperation to cut coal- and petroleum-burning emissions.
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PublishedApril 22, 2021
On Earth Day, Gov. Mills announces $500,000 grant program for clean-energy startups
Gov. Janet Mills unveiled the competitive grant program on the same day that the Biden administration announced major climate-related goals for the U.S.
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PublishedApril 22, 2021
Our View: The food we throw away is hurting the planet
More than a third of all food produced is thrown away, and it produces greenhouse gases at an alarming rate.
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PublishedApril 21, 2021
Those who still deny a warming planet grasp for increasingly far-fetched explanations
Instead of focusing on denialism, climate misinformation is getting local, focused on extreme weather events tied to a changing climate.
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PublishedApril 21, 2021
Biden is convening a global virtual summit as U.S. returns to climate fight
The U.S. is looking to such allies as Japan and Canada to announce their own intensified climate efforts, hoping that will spur China and others to slow building of coal-fired power plants and otherwise chill their smokestacks.
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PublishedApril 19, 2021
Winners of $20 million contest make concrete to trap carbon dioxide
Elon Musk has also pledged $100 million for researchers who can show how to take huge volumes of carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere and store it permanently.
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PublishedApril 17, 2021
Maine researchers discover ‘forever chemicals,’ other pollutants around summit of Everest
Researchers from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute find toxic elements smudging the world's tallest peak in ways unseen and previously unstudied.
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