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In Historic Move, Biden To Pick Native American Rep. Haaland As Interior...

Updated at 9:37 p.m. ET In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, his transition team announced Thursday evening. If...

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Biden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord

Updated 5:45pm Eastern Time In one of his first acts in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to have the United States rejoin the Paris climate agreement, the largest...

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Biden Hits 'Pause' On Oil And Gas Leasing On Public Lands And Waters

Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET In an effort to slow the nation's contribution to climate change, President Biden has signed an executive order to begin halting oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters....

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Interior Nominee Deb Haaland Faces Tough Questions On Climate Goals

President Joe Biden's historic pick to manage the nation's public lands and natural resources promised to strike a balance between fossil fuel and renewable energy development during her confirmation...

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As Fires Worsen, A Mental Health Crisis For Those Battling Them

Somewhere near his fifty-sixth straight hour of chasing flames, CalFire Captain Matt Newberry and his crew were hitting a wall. They'd been dispatched to the wildfire days earlier in the middle of the...

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Study Finds Wildfire Smoke More Harmful To Humans Than Pollution From Cars

Tens of millions of Americans experienced at least a day last year shrouded in wildfire smoke. Entire cities were blanketed, in some cases for weeks, as unprecedented wildfires tore across the Western...

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COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment

Agnes Boisvert, an ICU nurse at St. Luke's hospital in downtown Boise, Idaho, spends every day trying to navigate between two worlds. One is a swirl of beeping monitors, masked emotion and death; the...

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Biden Moves To Make It Illegal (Again) To Accidentally Kill Migratory Birds

The Biden administration is moving to restore protections for migratory birds that were loosened under former President Donald Trump — a back-and-forth centering on the question of when it's illegal to...

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Deb Haaland Confirmed As 1st Native American Interior Secretary

Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo, has become the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. The Senate voted 51-40 Monday to confirm the Democratic congresswoman to...

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California Has A New Idea For Homes At Risk From Rising Seas: Buy, Rent, Retreat

At a normal tide on a normal day on the Southern California coast, ankle-high waves glide over a narrow strip of gold sand. On one side sits the largest body of water in the world. On the other, a row...

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Once Imperiled, America's Bald Eagle Populations Are Soaring

The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 U.S. states — a population once on the brink of extinction — has quadrupled in the last dozen years to more than 316,000, federal wildlife officials say,...

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Reaching Back To The New Deal, Biden Proposes A Civilian Climate Corps

With college classes going online because of COVID-19, Joe Spofforth put his double major in political economies and educational studies on hold to move West and find work. When the pandemic was over,...

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Climate Change's Impact On Hurricane Sandy Has A Price: $8 Billion

When Hurricane Sandy swept up the Eastern Seaboard in 2012, it left a trail of damage from Florida to Maine. Subways were inundated in New York City. Hurricane-force winds tore across New Jersey....

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The Deadliest Fire In American History Happened In A Place You Wouldn't Expect

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Record drought and heat are setting up another precedent-setting fire season in the western U.S., but the deadliest wildfire in American...

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Wildfire Risk Is Growing Everywhere, Even As More Americans Move Into Harm's Way

There's a forgotten history that should serve as a warning — wildfire isn't unique to the West. Now the warming climate is increasing the risk of major wildfires across America. And more people are...

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Sheltering Inside May Not Protect You From The Dangers Of Wildfire Smoke

When wildfire smoke descends over a city or town, as it does increasingly often for tens of millions of people in the American West, public health officials have a simple message: Go inside, shut doors...

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A look at the ecological damage of the oil spill of California's coast

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In Southern California, investigators are looking at whether a German cargo ship was involved in the oil spill that's now polluting beaches,...

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Climate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make...

It may seem obvious: Heat kills. Wildfires burn. Flooding drowns. But the sprawling health effects of a rapidly warming world can also be subtle. Heat sparks violence and disrupts sleep. Wildfire smoke...

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The U.N. says climate impacts are getting worse faster than the world is...

As world leaders meet in Glasgow to try to curb planet-warming emissions an uncomfortable reality underlies their efforts: They've gathered on a shrinking island in a rising sea, where temperatures are...

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A famously far-ranging gray wolf is found dead in Southern California

Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway a little more than an hour's drive north...

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