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Top stories about climate change and the global environment.

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Environment

Energy-related emissions up in December despite pandemic

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Environment

Carbon-cutting pledges by countries nowhere near enough, U.N. says

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Who's really left holding the bag for those sky-high electricity bills in Texas?

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THINK on Climate Change

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U.S. news

Climate change raises stakes at hundreds of toxic sites as Biden inherits neglected EPA

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global warming

2020 was second-hottest year on record, NOAA says

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Climate in Crisis

Is fungus the answer to climate change? Student who grew a mushroom canoe says yes.

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Environment

Lemongrass in cows' diets? Scientists frantic for solutions to skyrocketing methane emissions

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Environment

Uncharted territory: Carbon dioxide expected to peak at levels last seen during Pliocene Epoch

Science News

A climate-sensitive bird hints at global warming's lasting impact

Climate in Crisis

Two giant icebergs broke off Antarctica. Here's what that means for the continent's health.

Environment

Antarctica's ozone hole has company: A rare hole over the Arctic

Data Graphics

Scientists split on how climate change has affected hurricanes

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Amazon wildfires

Scientists and environmental groups 'alarmed' by huge rise in Amazon wildfires

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Australia wildfires

One year since Australia's devastating wildfires, anger grows at climate change 'inaction'

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California Wildfires

First wildfires, now mudslides. California endures year-round disaster season.

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Heatwave in siberia

Siberia's lengthy heatwave impossible without climate change, scientists say

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Animal News

It's not poachers killing elephants in Botswana. That worries conservationists.

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Climate reports

'Doomsday glacier' melting, wildlife dwindling: Two new reports warn of climate disaster

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Impact on oceans

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Disappearing beaches

Climate change could wipe out half of the world's sandy shorelines

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underwater ecosystems

Earth's coral reefs could be gone by 2100, research finds

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Climate in Crisis

As sea levels rise, Venice fights to stay above the waterline

Climate in Crisis

Climate change models predicted ocean currents would speed up — but not this soon

U.S. news

Northern California's undersea kelp forests decimated by purple sea urchins

Fifty years later

Earth Day has descended into GOP-driven chaos, experts warn

Changing global and political landscapes have made the kind of broad and bipartisan agreements reached in the 1970s seem impossible.

Culture Matters

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's 2019 Person of the Year

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Climate in Crisis

It was a disaster of historic scale. 10 years later, are we hurtling toward another Deepwater Horizon?

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Special Report

As their home melts, Greenlanders confront the fallout of climate change

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Hope for Iceland's melting glaciers as scientists bury carbon

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Climate in Crisis

Blast the A/C? Throw out half your lunch? Share your Climate Confession

Where do you fall short in preventing climate change? Do you blast the A/C? Throw out half your lunch? Grill a steak every week? Share your anonymous confession with NBC News.