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Climate countdown

Donald Trump has set the US to exit the Paris accord on 4 November, one day after the election – this series spotlights what that could mean for a planet in crisis. A Guardian US series from 2020

4 November 2020

  • 2020 U.S. presidential election in Washington D.C.<br>U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak about early results from the 2020 U.S. presidential election in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 4, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

    Fate of climate crisis hangs on election as US exits Paris agreement

    Trump administration set US withdrawal in motion a year ago but it didn’t take effect until 4 November

3 November 2020

  • Bill McKibben

    This election isn't about the next four years. It's about the next four millennia

    Bill McKibben
    Time is running out to act on global heating. Electing Donald Trump the first time cost us dearly; a second term would be catastrophic

2 November 2020

  • Young people are becoming more aware of the perils of the climate crisis

    Climate crisis breaks open generational rifts in US families

  • Cattle in San Pedro Valley, Arizona.

    'In the sun they'd cook': is the US south-west getting too hot for farm animals?

28 October 2020

  • The city hall and Alcazar courtyard in St Augustine. Most of the city’s historic district is at risk of flooding.

    Deluged by floods, America’s ‘oldest city' struggles to save landmarks from climate crisis

    St Augustine, Florida, was founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers. Flooding has been a threat for centuries and is worsening with rising tides

27 October 2020

  • Hellshire beach, Jamaica, in 2008. The beach has largely disappeared since due to erosion.

    A beloved Jamaican beach is succumbing to climate change. It won’t be the last

    Climate change is eroding beaches all over the Caribbean – even though the region contributes a tiny fraction of the emissions heating the planet

26 October 2020

  • Why Biden calls Trump a 'climate arsonist' – video explainer

  • U.S. President Trump departs after announcing his decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement at White House in Washington<br>U.S. President Donald Trump departs after announcing his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Climate at a crossroads as Trump and Biden point in different directions

25 October 2020

  • A plume rises over a vineyard in Napa county, California, as the Hennessey fire burns, 18 August 2020.

    Can California’s top wine region survive the era of megafire?

    As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43bn industry is uncertain

23 October 2020

  • The final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on a smartphone screen in Kiev, Ukraine - 23 Oct 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (10971408d) In this photo illustration the Democratic presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden is seen during the final presidential debate with US President Donald Trump (not seen) displayed on a screen of a smartphone. The final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took place at Belmont University in Nashville, the U.S. on Thursday, October 22. United States presidential election scheduled for November 3, 2020. The final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on a smartphone screen in Kiev, Ukraine - 23 Oct 2020

    Biden's pledge to 'transition' from oil draws praise – and Republicans' anger

  • People gather outside the venue of the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Humanity has eight years to get climate crisis under control – and Trump's plan won't fix it

20 October 2020

  • Nikita Zimov and his daughters Ekaterina Zimova, 11, and Daria Zimova, 8, plant grass seeds as part of a new experiment at Pleistocene Park near Cherskiy, Siberia. Pleistocene Park, a nature reserve and research station along the Kolyma river in the northeast of Siberia, is also a large-scale scientific expirement created by Sergey Zimov and run by his son Nikita Zimov. The Zimovs believe that by recreating the ecosystem of the Pleistocene era, which was dominated by grasslands and large mammals, they can slow down permafrost thaw and it’s inevitable emission of greenhouse gases.

    10 million snowblowers? Last-ditch ideas to save the Arctic ice

    Some of the solutions sound fantastical – but their proponents argue that there are precious few other options
  • An American black bear catching fish near Ketchikan in south-east Alaska.

    Bears, whales and wolverines: the species imperiled by Trump's war on the environment

    Despite a grim outlook for American biodiversity, Trump has lifted protections for at-risk animals as part of his aggressive rollback of environmental rules
  • Illustration of Trump crossing out paper.

    75 ways Trump made America dirtier and the planet warmer

    In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people

19 October 2020

  • An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, AK on May 25, 2019.

    Big oil's answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling

    Technology is keeping patches of permafrost frozen to preserve infrastructure but Alaska’s indigenous residents face effects of climate crisis alone

18 October 2020

  • Johns Hopkins Glacier in southeast Alaska<br>epa08517373 A handout picture made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows the Johns Hopkins Glacier in southern Alaska, USA, 27 May 2020 (issued 30 June 2020). Johns Hopkins is one of more than 1,000 glaciers located within the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Most of the park's glaciers are found inland, high in the mountains. In contrast, Johns Hopkins Glacier flows eastward for miles from the Fairweather Range and down into the waters of Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay. Johns Hopkins and other glaciers that end in seawater - so-called tidewater glaciers - primarily lose mass through the calving of icebergs. EPA/NASA/OPERATION ICEBRIDGE HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    Alaska's new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting permafrost

    Scientists are warning of a link between rapid warming and landslides that could threaten populated areas and tourist attractions

17 October 2020

  • Tardigrades, nicknamed water bears or moss piglets, are less than one mm in length and can enter cryptobiosis to withstand temperature and moisture extremes.

    The tardigrade in the ice hole: how extreme life finds a way in the Arctic

    Tiny organisms nicknamed water bears offer clues about possible alien life but the changing climate means their habitat faces an uncertain future

16 October 2020

  • Plastic microfibers is one of the most widespread, yet largely invisible, form of plastic waste.

    Groundbreaking study finds 13.3 quadrillion plastic fibers in California’s environment

    Exclusive: report reveals far more microfibers than there are stars in the Milky Way – and they can easily enter oceans and waterways
  • TonyCardenas Wakeup-7

    'We don't have any choice': the young climate activists naming and shaming US politicians

    As the election nears, young Americans are calling on US politicians to take action on climate, police brutality and immigration
  • Canadian Arctic Operations Advisors scale the decades-old wreckage of an airplane in temperatures below minus 50 degrees Celsius. They are on reconnaissance outside Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada.

    Freezing cold war: militaries move in as Arctic ice retreats – photo essay

    US, Russian, Canadian and Chinese forces are taking an active role but the real threat is the rapidly changing polar climate
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