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When it comes to understanding neighbors, "We all underestimate how much our neighbors support green politics," said Anthony Leiserowitz, who directs the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

A fresh, sharp look at news, life and politics in Charlestown, Rhode Island

Rachel Beatty Riedl’s profile on The Conversation

From the commentary: We can increase our chances of producing food in a way that cools the planet by bolstering the lives of the people dedicating themselves to this essential work. Young farmers, if given the support system they need to thrive, could lead us towards a just and climate-resilient food system. The alternative is to sustain the unsustainable.

"What we need is a radical food system transformation towards an agriculture that feeds people while cooling the planet."

Help your mind — and the earth — manage the uncertainty of climate change.

Add meteorologists to the list of people being targeted by right-wing campaigns and extremists for daring to do their jobs.

Record-breaking heat is becoming the new normal in Texas, an analysis of temperature data by The Texas Tribune shows, as climate change steadily warms the planet and shifts the range

Hotter days and nights. More record highs. Climate change has shifted the entire range of Texas heat upwards.

The year is only half done and the United States has already been enveloped by acrid orange skies in the East, battered by winter rains and floods in California, seared by record winter temperatures in the South, soaked by a record 26-inch April deluge in Fort Lauderdale, and broiled by record spring heat in the Pacific Northwest, Texas, and Puerto Rico.