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Bees Are Under Threat from Climate Change, the Trade War and Doge
Under blue skies, where low-rolling hills rise south of the Canadian border in the tiny town of Adams, N.D., a couple braves the stench of old honey, wax, smoke and bee muck.Nancy and Keith Budke, married 43 years, are...
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Prepping for War With Russia on the Ice and Snow
The Finnish Defense Forces sent out an urgent message: We are being invaded. We need help.Hundreds of American troops — part of a new Arctic division — boarded planes in Fairbanks, Alaska. Their flight curved over the North Pole...
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White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled
Trump administration officials are recommending the elimination of the scientific research division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times and several people with knowledge of the situation.The proposal from...
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New Pact Would Require Ships to Cut Emissions or Pay a Fee
Amid the turmoil over global trade, countries around the world reached a remarkable, though modest, agreement Friday to reduce the climate pollution that comes from shipping those goods worldwide — with what is essentially a tax, no less.An accord...
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Ann Arbor Wants to Build Its Own Renewable-Energy Grid
The Climate Fix is our twice-a-month guide to the most important solutions to climate change across the world. Have comments about what we should cover? Email us at climateforward@nytimes.com.Ann Arbor, Mich., has an aggressive goal of net-zero emissions by...
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Trump’s New Way to Kill Regulations: Because I Say So
President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — to implement a novel procedure to scrap a wide array of longstanding energy and environmental regulations.He...
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Kathleen Sgamma Ends Bid to Lead the B.L.M.
Kathleen Sgamma, an advocate for oil and gas whom President Trump had tapped to run the Bureau of Land Management, has abruptly withdrawn her nomination, a White House spokeswoman said.Ms. Sgamma had been scheduled to testify on Thursday before...
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Climate Change Could Become a Global Economic Disaster
As stocks gyrate in response to President Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, the world is understandably focused on the immediate chaos affecting the global economy.Yet over the past few months a number of signals have pointed to a far more...
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Anti-Anxiety Drugs in Water Change Salmon Behavior, Study Finds
It has to be stressful: an obstacle course of giant dams, rushing rapids and hungry predators.That’s what juvenile salmon can face when they migrate out to the salty sea from the freshwater rivers and streams where they hatched. But...
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Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change
The Trump administration announced it is cutting nearly $4 million in federal funding for climate change research at Princeton University, saying that the work promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats” and increased “climate anxiety” among young Americans.The cuts to...
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Suspension of Ghana’s chief justice is ‘abuse of power’, says opposition
Opposition MPs in Ghana have fiercely condemned the suspension of the country's chief justice, accusing President John Mahama of...