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Truthout is proud to join with more than 200 other news outlets for Covering Climate Now, a project geared toward deepening media coverage of the climate crisis.
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![A man cools off in a fountain at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30, 2021, as a heat wave threatens to make it Baltimore's hottest day of the year.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/07/GettyImages-1233733370-400x300.jpg)
Sweltering From Heat Waves, Baltimore Needs Climate-Focused Infrastructure
Baltimore's low-income residents are disproportionately impacted by the worsening heat waves.
![Los Angeles County Firefighters put out hot spot on a brush fire, estimated at 24 acres, in Westlake Village, California, on April 29, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-1232608170-400x300.jpg)
33 Wildfires Are Already Burning Across 10 States — and Summer Hasn’t Even Begun
As the warmest spring on record ends, the West is bracing for the possibility of another devastating wildfire season.
![Paola Sanchez speaks during a rally with The Sunrise Movement to take action for an economic recovery and infrastructure package prioritizing climate, care, jobs, and justice, calling on Congress to pass the THRIVE Act on April 7, 2021, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/05/2021_0528-sunrise-movement-400x300.jpg)
Forget the GOP Plan. Climate Activists Want $10 Trillion for Infrastructure.
The Sunrise Movement wants to put millions of young people to work combating the climate crisis.
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Climate Crisis Has Shifted the Earth’s Axis, Study Shows
Since 1980 the position of the poles has moved about four meters, largely due to massive glacier melt after the '90s.
![Terri Domer visits the riverside encampment in Cedar Rapids, where she weathered last August's derecho.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0425-Climate-Homeless-400x300.jpg)
Homelessness and Extreme Weather Are Converging Climate Crises
For the homeless, natural disasters prove torturous for more than the fact that it's worse to be outside during a storm.
![Protesters rally to raise awareness about climate change on March 22, 2021, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0422-earth-dayu-400x300.jpg)
Reject Greenwashing. At This Point, Only an Ecological Revolution Will Do.
The damage that has been done to the environment is only now beginning to reveal itself after decades of denial.
![President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House on April 22, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0422-biden-climate-400x300.jpg)
Biden Opens Climate Summit With Pledge to Cut US Emissions in Half by 2030
Activists say the target isn’t ambitious enough to put the U.S. and the world on track to curbing dangerous warming.
![People watch the Walbridge fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fire, from a vineyard in Healdsburg, California, on August 20, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0422-fire-400x300.jpg)
California’s Wildfire Season Looms. Regenerative Agriculture Could Offer Hope.
California may see an earlier fire season, but regenerative agriculturalists say benefits to their approach are visible.
![Sen. Ed Markey speaks during a news conference held to re-introduce the Green New Deal at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0422-green-new-deal-400x300.jpg)
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Green New Deal Is Essential for Human Survival
World-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky and economist Robert Pollin discuss the state of the planet on the 51st Earth Day.
![Diana Wilson's truck, "Rosie," parked at the causeway of Texas's Lavaca Bay at Point Comfort on April 20, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/175863707_118341387027581_8149533617443208880_n-1-400x300.jpg)
72-Year-Old Fisher Hunger Strikes to Press Biden to Revive Crude Oil Export Ban
She hopes she can draw enough attention to pressure Biden to stop plans for a new oil export hub at Texas's Lavaca Bay.