A confession. That cartoon where someone is hunched over the computer, unable to tear away from furious typing, because someone is wrong on the internet? That was me. Or at least it used to be. As a lifelong scientist and […]

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The coastal plains and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia are home to the Gullah Geechee people, descendants of slaves who once worked on rice plantations there. Many Gullah Geechee still farm and fish. But in recent decades, rising […]

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Seeing the damage caused by a hurricane or a clear-cut forest can be emotionally painful. Pennsylvania activist and author Trebbe Johnson says this sadness often causes people to abandon damaged places. But she suggests a different approach. Johnson: “We face […]

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Dear Sara, Your column about the woman with the big beach house in Florida illustrates the difficulty of an honest conversation: If we stopped burning fossil fuels today, the climate will continue to warm and sea level will continue to […]

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The Rio Grande River snakes along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. A treaty regulates the use of its water for drinking and irrigation. But as drought increasingly threatens the river, people on both sides of the border are […]

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Oceans cover about 71 percent of Earth’s surface. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, they have provided the single largest sink for the carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels. And they have absorbed much of the […]

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As a young man, Allen Hubbard worked in oil exploration and production on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. Hubbard: “At the time, we thought we were being patriots, we were solving the energy crisis.” Hubbard had heard about global warming, […]

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California has been ravaged by record wildfires in recent years. 2017 was the state’s costliest and most destructive fire season on record. The Mendocino wildfire in July 2018 was California’s largest-ever by a whopping 60 percent. Even though California’s wildfire […]

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Sherry Guzzi wasn’t thinking about climate change eight years ago when she set out to save a family of beavers living near her Lake Tahoe, California, home. A former architect and lifelong wildlife lover, Guzzi was mostly thinking it was […]

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As a high schooler, Faith Ward cared about climate change. But she didn’t believe anyone would pay attention if she voiced her deep concerns. Ward: “You don’t feel very listened to as a teenager, I think.” But when the school […]

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