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Grow out your apocalypse beard and strap on your doomsday sandwich board, we're all gonna die! Humanity has always lived on knife edge, our species perpetually one war, one plague, one eruption, one meteor strike away from extinction. But should our species k…

French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attend a meeting on the digital economy at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28. The Demoralizing Reality of Life Under Trump What Republicans Really Mean W…

David Koch is dead. The billionaire died this week at age 79 of causes yet unknown. While he certainly enjoyed the fruits of his labors to deregulate U.S. industry and reduce taxes on the super-wealthy like himself, he will never have to experience the cons…

The company behind the project, TC Energy, which until recently was called TransCanada, has been stuck in a holding pattern for years. Company officials have insisted they remained committed to Keystone XLs construction even as delays continue to mount and as…

The Sunrise Movement has organized protests like this one in July in Philadelphia to pressure the Democratic National Committee to hold a primary debate focused on climate change. Jeff Brady/NPR Democratic National Committee officials will vote today on whe…

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, who mounted a dogged presidential candidacy raising the alarm about climate change, dropped out of the 2020 race Wednesday after struggling to earn a place in the next Democratic primary debate. Im not going to be the president…

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For cities in the United States, the price of infrastructure projects to combat rising seas and intensifying storms is coming into focusand so is the sticke…

By Kate Ryan NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change will damage the economies of countries whether they are rich or poor, hot or cold by the year 2100, economists said in a new report, dispelling the notion that impoverished, warm cou…

President Donald Trump often boasts that he has done more than any other president. "Nobody has even come close," he told reporters outside the White House last month.  And there's no question, he has been a very busy fellow. In the past week alone, Trump l…