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Funding from the infrastructure law comes as floods and heat waves batter the nation and gives Biden another chance to use climate carrots instead of sticks.

By Maxine Joselow

Don’t crank down your thermostat when it’s hot out. Do this instead.

By Allyson Chiu

Can mushrooms prevent megafires?

By Stephen Robert Miller

Analysis

The obsession with EV range is all wrong

By Shannon Osaka

U.S. truckmakers reach deal to phase out polluting diesel big rigs

By Timothy Puko

Biden approves largest wind project yet off U.S. shores

By Kate Selig

Heat is a mortal threat to farmworkers. A nurse may have found a way to protect them.

By Sarah DiGregorio

Scientists found a solution to recycle solar panels in your kitchen

By Allyson Chiu

Living near green spaces could add 2.5 years to your life, new research finds

By Allyson Chiu

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Why a $90 million push could help U.S. buildings withstand climate disasters

By Maxine Joselow

U.S. truckmakers reach deal to phase out polluting diesel big rigs

By Timothy Puko

Biden approves largest wind project yet off U.S. shores

By Kate Selig

EPA closes civil rights investigation into Louisiana pollution

By Timothy Puko and Darryl Fears

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ANIMALS

(Jennifer Malon)

Workers save turtles on migration path through dry-cleaning business

By Cathy Free

Three peregrine falcon chicks take flight at Harpers Ferry

By Dana Hedgpeth

Summer is here. Where are the fireflies?

By Dino Grandoni

Blood residue found on stone tools offers a clue to an Ice Age mystery

By Mark Johnson

‘Perfect storm’ leaves tens of thousands of dead fish on Texas beaches

By Kyle Melnick

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink

Massive floods. Record heat. Extreme ocean temperatures. Forest fires burning out of control. Climate alarm bells are ringing all over the planet.

By Sarah Kaplan

A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago

By Kim Bellware

Floods test Vermont’s quaint mountain towns in age of climate change

By Joanna Slater and Silvia Foster-Frau

Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York

By Dan Stillman

Flash flooding: What causes it and how to respond in an emergency

By Frances Vinall

Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know.

By Scott Dance

Should we trust AI to predict natural disasters?

By Dan Stillman

Analysis

Bad news about this year’s smoky air, in four maps and charts

By Ian Livingston

Pressure builds for FEMA to declare deadly heat events as disasters

By Kate Selig

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By Jacob Feuerstein

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How deforestation is pushing the Amazon toward a tipping point

By Terrence McCoy

Greenland ice sheet set to raise sea levels by nearly a foot, study finds

By Chris Mooney

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By Sarah Kaplan and Andrew Ba Tran

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Forest fires burn twice as many trees as two decades ago, report finds

By Zach Rosenthal

This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500?

By Juliet Eilperin

A crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say

By Sarah Kaplan

How a Supreme Court ruling limits the EPA’s power to combat climate change

By Robert Barnes and Dino Grandoni