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How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks

Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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How Guyana Is Feeding the Profits of Exxon Mobil, the Largest U.S. Oil Company

Exxon Mobil found a coveted growth engine in Guyana. Now it must navigate Guyana’s fractious politics and a territorial dispute with Venezuela.
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A Small Country’s Huge Windfall from the War in Iran

Oil-rich Guyana is enjoying red-hot growth. But the boom is magnifying tensions over corruption, inequality and strained ties with Venezuela.
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Why the Iran War Will Make Heating Oil More Expensive for Some This Winter

The cost of heating oil, which is similar to diesel and used extensively in Northeastern states, has climbed sharply because of the war in Iran.
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The Racial Disparities of Flood Buyouts

Black homeowners are paid less than white homeowners under a FEMA program, new research finds.
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China Stockpiled Oil, and Now It Could Dominate the Energy Landscape

The war with Iran revealed just how much influence the world’s biggest oil importer has over prices and other countries’ supplies of jet fuel, gasoline and diesel.
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Human-Caused Warming Played ‘Very Strong’ Role in Himalayan Floods, Report Finds

Rising temperatures contributed to the disaster by destabilizing the permafrost and ice around the collapsed rock, scientists concluded.
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Trump Ally Harold Hamm Strikes Venezuela Oil Deal

Mr. Hamm’s company, Continental Resources, has signed a preliminary deal with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company to develop and produce oil.
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Rising Seas Are Gobbling Up Beaches Around the World. A.I. Might Restore Them.

An experiment with roots at M.I.T. used A.I. and satellite images to grow a coastline in the Maldives. More projects are planned for Boston and Miami.
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Data Center’s Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River Cleanup

The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.
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Disaster Survivors Sticking Together

We found grace, humanity and friendship in the stories of disparate Americans hit by climate chaos.
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FEMA Could Still Lose More Jobs Despite Court Ruling

A plan to halve the agency’s sprawling work force was illegal, a judge ruled. But the court is not blocking other FEMA cuts.
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What Is Driving Diesel Prices Up? Energy Chaos Caused by Two Wars.

President Trump recently blamed Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries for causing a spike in diesel prices, but analysts say the Iran war is probably a bigger factor.
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Global Warming Will Breach the 1.5 Degree Celsius Limit. Now What?

As global temperature increase shoots past 1.5 degrees Celsius, the vulnerable countries that fought for that Paris Agreement target face a brutal new reality.
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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running

The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.
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Racing to Contain Invasive Green Crabs in Puget Sound

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.
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Choking Global Trade

Low rainfall and shrinking rivers are causing shipping bottlenecks, and higher prices, around the world.
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The Iran War Is Pushing Global Coal Use to Record Highs

Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.
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August Ties for Hottest Month on Record

Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.
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