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The month’s shocking surge is likely to make 2023 the hottest year on record and drive extreme impact around the globe. It could also be a harbinger of even higher temperatures next year.

September’s stunning rise of the average global temperature is all but certain to make 2023 the warmest year on record, and 2024 is likely to be even hotter, edging close to the “red line” of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above the pre-industrial level that the 2015 Paris climate agreement is striving to avoid.

Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried

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After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises

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Climate-conscious New Yorkers hope the mayor hasn’t forgotten them.

During his New York City mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani courted votes from environmentalists. He promised to expand green spaces in public schools and equip them with renewable energy, to meet the demands of the city’s building electrification laws and to increase investments in city parks.

After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises

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Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

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That would be American ratepayers—i.e., you.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Katharine Kollins, the president of Southeastern Wind Coalition.

Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

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Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

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County officials have said they will eventually close the incinerator, located in a predominantly Black community. Advocates want a concrete plan.

Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator.

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

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