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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall
These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.
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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool
Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.
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In a Win for Health, the EPA Toughens Limits on Soot Air Pollution

Expert BlogUnited StatesDr. Vijay Limaye, John Walke, Emily Davis
Today's agency action will deliver life-saving protections from dangerous air pollution.

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2019: A Year of Climate Ambition for Chile

Expert BlogAmanda Maxwell
The coming year will be a critical one for our planet. As the host of COP25, Chile specifically and Latin America more broadly have a wide-open opportunity to demonstrate vision and leadership on ambitious action that helps the entire world…

Paris Agreement Ambition: Stepping Up Countries' Targets

Expert BlogBrendan Guy
The climate talks in Poland fired the starting gun for countries to step up the ambition of their climate targets by 2020 in line with the latest sobering science on climate change. Now countries must sprint to complete the next…

Paris Agreement Rulebook: Tracking Country Progress

Expert BlogJake Schmidt
One of the key elements of the decisions in Poland were rules around the "Transparency and Accountability" provisions to implement the Paris Agreement— how we will track progress and hold countries accountable to deliver their national and international climate commitments…

Paris Agreement Rulebook: Tracking Financial Flows

Expert BlogHan Chen
The key tasks for the next few years are to (1) ramp up climate finance through the Green Climate Fund and other channels, (2) shift resources out of high-carbon projects into low-carbon activities across the economy, and (3) to make…

Cheapest AND Cleanest: Renewables Are Winning

Expert BlogNathanael Greene
As 2018 closes, it’s now safe to say that clean renewable energy is at an inflection point. Cost is no longer the biggest challenge to greater adoption of wind and solar; it is now the rules of the power markets…

Communities & Climate: A New Way to Measure Vulnerability

Expert BlogMarissa Ramirez
What decisions need to be collectively made to withstand climate change while centering climate justice and equity? How can solutions be developed that underscore climate vulnerability and chart a new path on which all people can be included?

Where’s the (Better) Beef? Not at Wendy’s.

Expert BlogDavid Wallinga, MD
In the wake of big news from McDonald's, is Wendy's hoping to convince consumers it's acting meaningfully on antibiotic overuse without actually doing so?