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The San Diego Union-Tribune - Environment

The overwhelming problem of plastic

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State to repair beach erosion at Carlsbad's Tamarack Avenue parking lot

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Scientists search for answers as baby whales wash up dead in Argentina

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Environmental groups sue Trump administration over eased vehicle fuel economy rules

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Indonesian villagers on Borneo struggle for water as El Niño intensifies peatland fires

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Future of Amazon rainforest policies at stake in Brazilian presidential election

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Households will pay more for energy because of federal policy changes, think tank says

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A balcony solar bill in California is now law. When can you plug in?

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Earth's driest desert is covered in wildflowers right now

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States and cities sue over Trump's EPA eliminating rule that limits emissions from power plants

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Wind turbine taller than the Eiffel Tower aims to boost German electricity production

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Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet

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Pandora opens $150 million Vietnam jewelry factory powered by renewable energy

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Swiss glaciers lose over 5% of ice volume in 2026 as heat waves, low winter snow accelerate thaw

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As heat becomes more extreme, inmates are increasingly threatened by rising temperatures

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The world's largest oat milk producer has joined an unusual climate journalism campaign

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Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week

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An endangered frog nursery in LA cares for hundreds of tadpoles until they're ready for the wild

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Millions who need flood insurance the most don't have it as flawed federal program raises prices

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Newsom signs bills targeting hydrogen sulfide, worker safety in Tijuana River Valley

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MLB considers Grand Teton National Park for baseball game site, prompting concern

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Sea level rise is reshaping a California beach town and threatening a key rail line

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A change at the top of San Diego Community Power but no reason given for CEO's departure

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Residents near Maui wildfires show elevated metals linked to impacted lung health, study says

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Trump administration lowers fuel economy standards, critics say at a significant environmental cost

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Mexico breaks ground on new desalination plant in Rosarito to bolster region's water supply

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Mountain lion fatally struck by vehicle on highway near Mission Trails park

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San Diego Zoo and Safari Park welcome new gorillas from Seattle and Kansas zoos

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It's official: Coronado is the newest addition to San Diego Community Power

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Former VP Al Gore: A clean Earth is within world's grasp even as climate dangers accelerate

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How one factory is surviving America's solar policy whiplash

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New firefighting fund launches but funding gap remains as wildfires worsen worldwide

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Scottsdale's water recycling program hits election-year backlash

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Federal report concludes hydrogen sulfide spikes near Tijuana River pose public health hazard

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Mission Trails gets a 62-ton makeover to reduce wildfire risk

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Climate disasters are growing. So are cuts to programs that prepare for them

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This year's El Nino-driven heat could cause nearly half a million more deaths, group says

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Beach water advisories issued as Oceanside harbor dredging proceeds

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Nesting olive ridley sea turtle off Southern California beaches is a first recorded for West Coast

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A third beluga whale rescued from Canada has died at Chicago aquarium

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New York, California sue to block Trump administration deals canceling offshore wind projects

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Worsening El Nino threatens Asia with drought, potentially raising food prices globally

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Judge won't block Trump administration from giving SpaceX acres of wildlife refuge in land swap

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There's an easy way to get rid of all the reusable bags piling up in your home

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St. Mary's Glacier melted away. Will Colorado's iconic snowfield ever return?

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Tiny wild cat newly identified as a species draws curious visitors in Bolivia

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Climate Week talks balance hope for clean energy against uncertainty over artificial intelligence

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A humpback whale was spotted in a California river, 60 miles from its Pacific Ocean home

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Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

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How Africa's biggest cities are grappling with mounting waste and shrinking space

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Trump administration begins building border wall in Texas' Big Bend region

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Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon

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Britain's Prince William reveals finalists for Earthshot environmental prize

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Killing endangered wildlife is legal if they aren't the target, new Trump rule says

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The Iran war is driving clean energy development. It's not enough to help the planet, yet

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'All these projects have problems.' County approves East County solar and battery project

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There's one issue where Republicans and Democrats are unified before the midterms, a new poll finds

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Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years

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Fight to pass Measure B, the countywide sales tax increase, heats up

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Tijuana River sewage crisis costs region up to $503 million a year, study finds

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They are paid to bring rain. When it fails — or leads to floods — violence can follow

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An artist captures how summer's heat waves hit Paris and its homeless so hard

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Crews begin making berms on S.D.'s beaches to prepare for El Niño

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European leaders meet as Arctic thaw opens shipping routes and Russian buildup stokes security fears

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EPA eliminates rule that limits planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

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'A steady input of these chemicals': report finds cocktail of pollution in Tijuana River

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Safari Park caring for condor chick rescued from nest in Pinnacles National Park

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With support from loggers and (some) environmentalists, Congress unites on major wildfire bill

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Federal court rejects Trump order keeping Michigan coal plant open

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Emergency declared to save Highway 101 from beach erosion in Carlsbad

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County, CDC to launch second health survey on Tijuana River sewage crisis

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'Immaculate condition': Rare mastodon fossil found in Northern California creek

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The push to remove lead pipes is on. Thousands of water systems still don't know where theirs are

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California officials allow plans for the country's biggest kelp farm to move forward

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'Climate hushing' has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it's a mistake.

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Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

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A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests

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In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

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Nepal's flood disaster and the impact of climate change loom large in the icy shadow of Mont Blanc

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Coastal erosion once again suspends trains between San Diego and rest of the nation

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Plastic leaves its traces in unexpected places — like your dentist's office

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Hungry black bears are running into trouble in the Rocky Mountains

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Malaysia declares emergency in Sarawak town as haze reaches critical level

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Farmers turn to perennial grains as one solution to extreme weather

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EPA seeks more public comments as it struggles to devise water rule that limits scope on wetlands

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Severe erosion leaves Carlsbad's Tamarack beach slim for Labor Day weekend

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The Trump administration halted a Great Lakes project. Then Whitmer called Trump

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'It immediately started attacking me': Otter leaves Lake Tahoe swimmer bleeding

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US Forest Service closing 23 research facilities as part of reorganization under Trump

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Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

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Two more belugas die at Chicago aquarium

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Pacific island nations seek to turn geopolitics into funding to offset climate change harm

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Trump administration ratchets up its fight to get more oil flowing from California

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EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans

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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

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County supervisors greenlight plan to build own Tijuana River treatment plant

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New York's plan to charge fossil-fuel producers $75B for climate change damages is struck down

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California lawmakers' last-minute deal on compensation for wildfire victims falls apart

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Spike in rare cancer cases spark anti-pesticide activism in Southern California

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A hotter planet is pushing older adults beyond the human body's limits

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