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Environment

Tropical Fish Are No Longer Just In The Tropics As Climate Change Affects Habitats

5:07pm January 20, 2020

by Jay Price

Climate change is fueling some big changes under the sea. Tropical reef fish are being found much farther north, far from the tropics. Scientists worry about what the shifts will mean for ecosystems.

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Golf-ball-sized hail carpets a street in Canberra on Monday, in a new twist on Australia's summer of extreme weather. The Australian Capital Territory's emergency service said it received a record number of calls for help — more than 1,900.

Destructive Hail And A Massive Dust Storm Descend On Fire-Ravaged Australia

4:21pm January 20, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Canberra, Melbourne and other areas of southeast Australia were hit by golf-ball-sized hail that destroyed car windshields, killed birds and shredded the leaves off trees.

American Firefighters Battle Australian Blazes

5:17pm January 19, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Joel Kerley, an American helicopter pilot and wildfire manager who has been fighting the wildfires in Australia.

'You Need To Act Now': Meet 4 Girls Working To Save The Warming World

7:00am January 19, 2020

by Anya Kamenetz

"When we organize, we model the world we want to see," says teenager Xiye Bastida. Activist girls like Bastida have been especially visible in the fight against climate change.

Rain Brings New Worries To Burned Areas In Australia

7:55am January 18, 2020

by Rebecca Hersher

Rain is coming to parts of Australia that have burned, flooding some areas, damaging the vegetation and increasing the risk of landslides.

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Elk graze in Skagit Valley, an area north of Seattle, Wash., populated for centuries by Native Americans and, more recently, by farmers.

Elk Raise Tensions Between Tribes And Farmers In Washington's Skagit Valley

7:55am January 18, 2020

by Eilís O'Neill

In Washington state's Skagit Valley, a conflict is unfolding between Native Americans and farmers. Elk are making a comeback there. Local tribes are thrilled, but the agriculture industry is not.

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Levi Draheim, 11, wears a dust mask as he participates in a demonstration in Miami in July 2019. A lawsuit file by him and other young people urging action against climate change was thrown out by a federal appeals court Friday.

Kids' Climate Case 'Reluctantly' Dismissed By Appeals Court

8:04pm January 17, 2020

by Nathan Rott

The court said the nearly two dozen young people who were trying to force action by the government on climate change did not have standing to sue. The judges said climate change is a political issue.

Microsoft has announced new, more ambitious climate change targets for the coming decades.

Environment

Microsoft Pledges To Remove From The Atmosphere All The Carbon It Has Ever Emitted

4:02pm January 16, 2020

by Camila Domonoske

The tech giant, which says it has been "carbon neutral" for years, is vowing to go "carbon negative" — by cutting emissions, planting trees and investing in new carbon removal technology.

Fire swept through Australia's Wollemi National Park, but firefighters were able to save rare groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines.

Aussie Firefighters Save World's Only Groves Of Prehistoric Wollemi Pines

3:55pm January 16, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

Fire swept through the canyons where the rare trees had outlived the dinosaurs. For days, the smoke was so thick that no one knew whether the careful plan to protect them had worked.

For decades, the Earth has steadily gotten hotter. The planet has already warmed about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (or almost 1 degree Celsius) compared with in the mid-20th century.

2019 Was The 2nd-Hottest Year On Record, According To NASA And NOAA

7:09pm January 15, 2020

by Rebecca Hersher

Last year's data collected by the agencies is the latest confirmation that the Earth is steadily getting hotter. The planet is now almost 1 degree Celsius warmer than it was in the mid-20th century.

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