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Congress Ponders Competing Bills to Aid Tribes and Wildlife

Jack Bonner and Dakotah Pinkus, technicians for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, transfer trout fry that will be placed in a lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Luna Anna Archey/High Country News This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nine years ago, Glenn Olson joined a…

Trump Would Gut and Privatize US Climate and Weather Agency, Experts Fear

Then-President Donald Trump shows reporters a Sharpie-altered NOAA hurricane forecast on September 4, 2019.Evan Vucci/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), disbanding its work…

G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, left, with colleagues at a recent G20 news conference.Jose Luis Magana/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for the global fight…

Students Are Demanding Universities Divest From Israel—and Dirty Energy

Milo Hess/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote…