| A Climate Ambassador on Every Block: How One South Bay Community Is Preparing for Heat, Smoke and Floods | | Ever Rodriguez wants a climate ambassador on every block of North Fair Oaks. His idea is to bolster the community's resilience to climate-driven natural disasters like wildfire smoke, excessive heat and floods. | | |
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| These 4 Charts Explain Why the Stakes Are So High at the U.N. Climate Summit | | How hot will the planet get? What nations negotiate at the international climate summit will help determine that. Here are 4 things to know about what's being decided. | | |
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| Straight Talk on Temperature: Here's What 1.5 Degrees C Means | | You're hearing it all over the news this week — the urgency of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Here's why. | | |
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| 'No Nonsense' Ugandan Climate Activist Centers African Voices at COP26 | | Vanessa Nakate points out that people on the front lines of the climate emergency are not on the front pages of world newspapers. She's at COP26 to tell their stories. | | |
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| Native American People Tell Stories of Climate Loss and Resilience | | Indigenous peoples across the U.S. are deciding whether to leave ancestral territories or hold onto their homelands as climate change brings floods, drought and erosion. | | |
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| The Biggest Whales Can Eat the Equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs in One Day | | Scientists have gotten the best estimates yet of exactly how much baleen whales, the largest animals on the planet, can consume in one day. Their caloric intake is mind-boggling. | | |
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| NASA to Explore What Could Be The Iron Core of a Former Planet | | Scientists believe the asteroid Psyche was a planet that lost its rocky layers during violent collisions with space objects long ago. | | |
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| California Deserts Could Hold The Key to a Future With Less Fossil Fuel (Hint: It's Lithium) | | There could be enough lithium stored across California and the West to supply all the batteries the U.S. demands, researchers estimate, plus more to export. | | |
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| If Countries Keep Their Climate Pledges, It Could Limit Global Temperature Rise | | The International Energy Agency says that if nations honor their latest pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures could be held to 1.8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. | | |
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