America is addicted to parking lots — and it's killing the economy

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A blue car drives across the outside of the earth. Following the car, the surface of the earth incrementally is covered by a full parking lot.
The US is home to as many as 2 billion parking spots. All this wasted space is wrecking our economy and making it harder to building homes.

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Police arrested senior citizens who blockaded banks in a 'Rocking Chair Rebellion' to end fossil fuel use

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A climate protest aimed at older Americans gathered in front of Wells Fargo headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Phoenix residents are transforming their homes to save energy and conserve water as climate scientists warn of an ever-worsening crisis

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America is being hit by a huge surge in blackouts — and it's only going to get worse

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A GIF of a city fading into darkness
Major blackouts are happening more often thanks to extreme weather from climate change and a fragmented electric grid.

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Candida auris is just one infection fueled by rising temperatures. See how extreme climate helps spread disease, in 3 simple charts.

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A strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a CDC laboratory.

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The Earth has tilted on its axis differently over the last few decades due to melting ice caps

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The Earth is shown in a picture taken from space, from above its pole.
NASA's asteroid-bound NEAR spacecraft took this mosaic image of Earth in January 1998.

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The Biden administration is offering to pay Colorado River farmers to let fields go dry during a devastating drought. They're worried it's just the first step in losing their way of life.

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Colorado River family farmer in front of combine
Troy Waters, 56, with his grandson Waylon fixing up their combine before the next harvest.

Leah Waters

Images from space show a 5,000-mile bloom of seaweed threatening the beaches of Florida

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man stands in vast field of red brown algae where a beach should be
Park guard Roberto Varela walks over sargassum seaweed piled up on the seashore in Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba.

Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters

Another house has collapsed into the ocean in North Carolina, and its owner will now have to clean up all the debris

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The collapsed one-story house at 23228 East Point Drive, Rodanthe,
The one-story house at 23228 East Point Drive, Rodanthe, collapsed into the ocean on Monday.

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Biden promised 'no more drilling on federal lands, period.' He just broke that pledge to approve a massive oil project in Alaska.

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In 2020, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to stop all new oil drilling on federal land.

AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

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