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A study released on the eve of the conference found that 8 million people around the world die annually from air pollution. And experts say the crisis is worsening.

In one home video, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah bops to a choreographed Beyoncé dance. In another, she looks at the camera, and her mom and plants a big kiss on her lips. Then there is a photo of her mid-laugh when she told her mom she could not climb any more steps at a monument. And in some of the final images taken of Ella as she neared the end of her all-too-brief life, the 9-year-old lies in a London hospital room struggling to breathe, an oxygen mask covering nearly all of her tiny, oval face.

At COP28, a Growing Sense of Alarm Over the Harms of Air Pollution

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Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

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The pivot reveals a company adapting to Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda and looking to cash in on recently boosted tax incentives for enhanced oil recovery.

For four years, battles over private property rights have gridlocked state legislatures across the Midwest and stalled plans for a pipeline to transport liquified carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in the region.

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

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The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

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“Today, as in the beginning, life is still made out of carbon dioxide, and the world’s problems are made out of carbon dioxide as well.”

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Peter Brannen, the author of “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”

The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

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Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.

The Trump administration is turning to the nuclear option on endangered-species protections in the name of national security.

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

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