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Report
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Committing to Renewables in New Mexico
While the decline of New Mexico’s coal industry is inevitable, the composition of resources that will replace it is not.
Report
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Accelerating US Leadership in Electric Vehicles
Financial incentives for electric vehicles boost sales and decrease costs, benefiting consumers and industry.
Explainer
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Energy and Water Use
Energy and water use are closely intertwined. Conventional power plants generate power by boiling water to produce steam that spins huge electricity-generating turbines.
Explainer
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How Does the Sun Affect Our Climate?
Learn how the sun affects our climate in this primer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Explainer
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Why Does CO2 get more attention than other gases?
Climate change is primarily a problem of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Podcast
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Living with Rising Seas: Stories from Chronically Flooded Communities
Scientist and climate advocate Nicole Hernandez Hammer and Pulitzer-prize nominated journalist Derrick Z. Jackson talk about what they are seeing on the ground in chronically flooded coastal communities.
Explainer
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The Ozone Hole and Global Warming
Information about the ozone hole and global warming. The ozone hole is not a mechanism of global warming, but both the ozone hole and global warming are caused by human activities.
Video
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When Rising Seas Hit Home
The seas are rising. What does that mean for communities and homeowners?
Report
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When Rising Seas Hit Home
There comes a threshold of chronic flooding that makes normal routines impossible and forces communities to make difficult, often costly choices.
Podcast
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When Rising Seas Hit Home: What Coastal Communities Can Expect, and When to Expect It
Startling new research on sea level rise and the hard choices ahead for coastal communities.
Case Study
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Protecting New Jersey From Sea Level Rise: The Future of the Meadowlands
The Meadowlands were the salvation for several cities and towns in New Jersey during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.
Case Study
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Historic Communities Face New Challenges as Sea Levels Rise along the South Carolina Coast
The effects of sea level rise are appearing so fast in Charleston, South Carolina, that the city’s sustainability project manager says most people have no time to holler from one side of the climate change political divide to the other: