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Zoya Teirstein is a reporter at Grist.

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School Strike 4 Climate Brisbane. Photo by Stephen Hass / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

How Australia fudged the numbers at U.S. climate summit

There’s a big difference between saying you’ve already made climate progress and actually making progress. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Australia.

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Let's reuse medical supplies. Here's why

Should hospitals reuse medical supplies? A recent study says yes.

With just over a month to the election, Trump bans offshore drilling in three Republican states

“This protects your beautiful Gulf and your beautiful ocean, and it will for a long time to come,” Trump said in a speech in Jupiter touting his environmental record

Emissions from airplanes nearly doubled in two decades

Congressional Democrats and Republicans were busy hashing out the details of a third coronavirus package. One piece of the package became a sticking point for both parties: emissions from airplanes and cruise ships.

Desert Locusts (Schistocerca gregaria). Photo: Flickr/Pascal Terjan (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Climate change blamed for locust invasion

Photos from the ground show the extent of the invasion.

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Pope Francis in St Peter's square - Vatican. Author: Alfredo Borba [CC BY-SA 4.0]

The pope might classify destroying the earth as a sin

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How climate politics went mainstream in 2019

The science has never been bleaker, but progress is afoot.

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If fossil fuel ads had warning labels

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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the airport in Bagotville, Que. on June 7, 2018 for the G7 meeting hosted by Canada in Malbaie. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Donald ‘I’m an environmentalist’ Trump skips G7 climate meeting

World leaders met in France on Monday, August 26, 2019, to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity, and warming oceans. The members of the G-7 — the world’s richest nations — walked away from that meeting with a plan to release $20 million in aid to the countries battling historic blazes in the Amazon. But one leader was notably absent: Donald Trump.

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A plaque placed at the former location of the Icelandic Okjökull glacier, which disappeared due to climate change. Rice University [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Here’s why Iceland is mourning a dead glacier

Some 100 people gathered at the top of a volcano in Iceland on Sunday for an unusual funeral. The victim: A 700-year-old, six-mile glacier. Cause of death: climate change.

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