On climate change in particular, wilder talking points are distracting from the small, boring ways a Republican administration could pour money into oil and gas companies’ pockets.

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The methane released by U.S. landfills could be cut in half in the next 25 years if the EPA adopts policies that some states have now, a new study finds.

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When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.

Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop.

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• Tanton’s Network: Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation, brace for climate change and preserve “European” culture.

• Green Hate: Now climate change is amplifying environmental concerns that have always run through the white supremacy and the anti-immigration movements.

• Eco-Fascism: Experts warn that extremists who seize on global warming to justify violence are part of a far right trend to reclaim environmentalism as their own.

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" ... as soon as vehicles come in the right price range next year … people will flock to buy them.”

changes in population distribution and land use over the 20th century – including forest fragmentation and the conversion of land for urban development and agriculture – have suppressed wildfires, driving down global burned area by 19%.

However, this decline has been hindered by human-caused warming, which has expanded the area burned by 16% through increasingly hot and dry conditions across much of the world.

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But if CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage. The leaks can lead to heavy metal contamination and potentially lower pH levels, all of which can make drinking water undrinkable. This is what bothers critics of carbon capture who worry that it’s solving one problem by creating another.

Roughly a month after the Ketchikan slide, Hurricane Helene caused hundreds of landslides in southern Appalachia; more than 600 have affected rivers or critical infrastructure. “We can say for certain that we’re seeing more landslides occurring because of the effects of climate change,” said Dave Petley, a landslide expert at the University of Hull in England.

In particular, they're looking at charts like this one:

These don't scale down the industry as fast as we need, but do promise a future of sharply reduced profitability.