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'A Disgrace': Bernie Sanders Takes Trump EPA Pick to Task for Claiming Climate Change Not 'Greatest Crisis' Facing Planet

'5-Star Award for Idiocy' as Trump Threatens to Cut Off FEMA Funds to California in Wake of Deadliest-Ever Wildfire Season

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The state owns three percent of the forests in California," wrote Sen. Jeff Merkley in response. "No matter how many people with rakes they deploy, forests are going to burn because of longer, hotter summers due to climate chaos."

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10 Costliest Climate-Driven Extreme Weather Events of 2018 Caused at Least $84.8B in Damage: Analysis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"The world's weather is becoming more extreme before our eyes—the only thing...

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As Demand for Urgent Transformation Intensifies, New Study Shows Hotter Planet Making Extreme Weather Deadlier

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Hurricanes and wildfires and bleaching and drought... they're happening to us...

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To Tackle Climate Crisis, Says Sanders, US Must 'Be Bold and Aggressive in Standing Up to Greed of Fossil Fuel Industry'

A sign is posted on the Paradise Skilled Nursing center as it is consumed by flames from the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018 in Paradise, California.

'Absolute Disgrace': When No One Looking, White House Plans to Dump Major Climate Report on Black Friday

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'Just Insane': Air Quality Soars Above Safety Threshold as California Wildfires Death Toll Rises

#RakeNews: Finns Ridicule Trump's Claim That They Prevent Fires Like California's by "Raking" Forests

A home burns as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 9, 2018 in Magalia, California. Fueled by high winds and low humidity, the rapidly spreading Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise and has quickly charred 70,000 acres and has destroyed numerous homes and businesses in a matter of hours. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Demands for 'Real Climate Action' as Death Toll From California Wildfires Hits Grim Record

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New Tool Projecting How High US Cities' Temperatures Will Rise by 2050 Provokes Calls for Climate Action

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'Like a Small War Just Passed Through': Super Typhoon Yutu Leaves US Islands in Pacific 'Mangled'

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Hawaiian Island Swallowed Up By Rising Seas After Hurricane Walaka Reveals 'What the Future Could Look Like'

'They're Doing Us Like They Did New Orleans': Anger at Trump Inaction as Hurricane Michael Leaves Millions Without Power and Basic Needs

Phlomena Telker stands on what was her covered porch after Hurricane Michael tore the roof of her home as it passed through the area on October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida.

'Wake Up': Climate Campaigners Tell World Leaders Liberation From Fossil Fuel Industry's Grip Only Solution

A satellite image of Hurricane Michael on Wednesday morning ahead of landfall expected in the coming hours.

'We Have a Pit in Our Stomachs': Warnings for Florida Grow as Category 4 Hurricane Michael Intensifies

Hundreds Killed After Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Strike Indonesia

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Earthjustice

Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Group Says Catastrophic Wildfires Show Need for Stronger, Faster Action on Climate Change

Center for Biological Diversity

Analysis: San Diego Projects to Put 40,000 People in High Fire-hazard Areas

350.org

350.org on California Wildfires and Need for Climate Action

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Woolsey Fire Burns Nuclear Meltdown Site that State Toxics Agency Failed to Clean Up

National Nurses United

RN Response Network Deploys Nurse Volunteers to Florida to Help Provide Medical Assistance Post-Hurricane Michael

350.org

Over 100 Global Climate Actions Call on World Leaders to Wake Up to 1.5

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Juan Cole

The Real Threat Is Invasive Climate Crisis, and Our Shield Is Science

Charles Eisenstein

Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working

Debi Smith

By Accident of Fate: The Fires in Paradise

Todd Miller

Why the Migrant Caravan Story Is a Climate Change Story

Jill Richardson

California Is on Fire. Trump’s Solution: Rakes?

Johanna Bozuwa

PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over

David C. Fathi

Prisoners Are Getting Paid $1.45 a Day to Fight the California Wildfires

Robert C. Koehler

Gunfire and Wildfire: The New Abnormal

Eric Holthaus

How to Process Climate Grief Over the California Wildfires

Andy Rowell

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