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Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty

The impending retirements of Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal — winners of a combined 65 major singles titles — have some worried about the end of the glory days of tennis. But a bigger existential crisis is facing the sport: climate change. All sports, if they haven’t already, are expected to suffer in […]

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Who Should Pay For Climate Change?

SAN FRANCISCO — Outside a courtroom where a much-anticipated court hearing on climate science took place on Wednesday is an old photo of San Francisco’s coastline. Dated 1865, it features an area of the city known as North Beach, which back then was covered in ramshackle wooden houses on a sandy slope nuzzled up against […]

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Climate Science Isn’t Being Silenced Everywhere In Washington

As Trump tweets, government acts. Welcome to Meanwhile, our recurring look at what federal agencies are up to and how their work affects people’s lives. The deletion of references to climate change from government websites has become a perennial headline under the Trump administration — but one that doesn’t tell the whole story. The websites […]

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The Grandfather Of Alt-Science

Arthur B. Robinson, renegade chemist, failed politician, grandpa of the climate skeptics — and maybe, just maybe, our nation’s next scientist-in-chief — padded across the carpet of his homemade lab in a pair of white athletic socks. “This room, everything you see here, was built by my own sons with their own hands, including the […]

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How A Warm Winter Destroyed 85 Percent Of Georgia’s Peaches

2017 has been a bad year for peaches in the Peach State. Georgia’s disruptively warm winter caused the loss of an estimated 85 percent of the peach crop. “We had fruit here in Georgia from the middle of May to about probably the first week of July, and after that we didn’t have anything else,” […]

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