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How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation
Activists say Democratic climate proposals won’t be able to pass until lawmakers put a stop to oil companies are trying to rebrand themselves
The Guardian
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9 Jan
Love Is the Answer to the Climate Crisis
As the climate crisis worsens, and the window to solve it is quickly closing, we have a choice to make: we can shut down in fear or lean in and ope...
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Lion's Roar
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8 Jan
The Australian bushfires may be the "Chernobyl" of climate crisis - the event that makes our current system untenable
The Australian bushfires are apocalyptic enough to stoke anyone’s climate-crisis fears. But we were happy to see our friend and colleague Kather...
bushfires climate crisis @The Alternative UK
Germany cuts fares for long-distance rail travel in response to climate crisis
Cheaper fares as Deutsche Bahn passes on to customers the government’s cut on VAT
The Guardian
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5 Jan
‘The forest is shedding tears’: the women defending their Amazon homeland
Global Greengrants UK, one of the four groups we are helping to fight the climate crisis, supports indigenous Brazilians
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The Guardian
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26 Dec 2019
We need to talk about geoengineering
Geoengineering is not an alternative to reducing our CO2 emissions. But it may give us the time and breathing space to transform our…
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Medium
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24 Dec 2019
How the race for cobalt risks turning it from miracle metal to deadly chemical
As a case in the US alleges links between tech companies and child miners in Congo, the Guardian’s global environment editor assesses the dangers o...
The Guardian
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19 Dec 2019
1.9 billion people at risk from mountain water shortages, study shows
Rising demand and climate crisis threaten entire mountain ecosystem, say scientists
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The Guardian
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10 Dec 2019
Leading scientists condemn political inaction on climate change as Australia 'literally burns'
Climate experts ‘bewildered’ by government ‘burying their heads in the sand’, and say bushfires on Australia’s east coast should be a ‘wake-up call’
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The Guardian
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7 Dec 2019
Climate disasters have forced more than 20 million people a year to flee homes in decade, study finds
Catastrophes such as floods, cyclones and fires caused by the climate crisis have driven millions of people from their homes every year for a decad...
The Independent
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3 Dec 2019
Here's the evidence we're headed for a climate crisis tipping point
A thawing Antarctica, a transforming Amazon, and other devastating changes may be more likely than scientists previously believed
WIRED UK
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1 Dec 2019
The climate crisis is forcing us to drastically rethink our toilets
With the UK expected to suffer from water shortages by 2050, toilet manufacturers are turning to low-water alternatives. But do people really want ...
WIRED UK
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24 Nov 2019
Harvard and Yale students disrupt football game for fossil fuel protest
Students began campaigning in 2012 for both universities to stop investing in oil and gas companies that contribute to climate crisis
The Guardian
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24 Nov 2019
Fossil fuel production on track for double the safe climate limit
‘We’re in a deep hole over the climate crisis and we need to stop digging,’ warn experts
The Guardian
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22 Nov 2019
Sydney Is Running out of Water as Bushfires Rage
Sydney's water shortage is a mounting problem as wildfires are predicted to gain in strength and intensity this weekend.
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EcoWatch
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16 Nov 2019
A journey to the centre of the Amazon in radical bid to solve climate crisis
Young XR members travel by canoe into heart of Amazon to form ‘forest pact’ with indigenous groups and land activists
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The Guardian
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16 Nov 2019
World's Largest Public Bank Ditches Oil and Coal in Victory for the Climate Movement
Climate activists celebrated Thursday the decision of the European Investment Bank to stop funding most oil and coal projects by 2021
EcoWatch
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16 Nov 2019
Cuba’s Urban Farming Shows Way to Avoid Hunger
Urban agriculture is sustainable over decades.
EcoWatch
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13 Nov 2019
Labour Needs a Bold Climate Vision in This Election – Including a 2030 Decarbonisation Target
In what is being touted as the UK's first 'climate election', Aliya Yule argues it's up to the Labour party to put forward the strong vision requir...
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Novara Media
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13 Nov 2019
UK railways cannot cope with climate change, says rail boss
Head of Scotland’s railway calls for vastly increased investment in future-proofing network
The Guardian
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8 Nov 2019
Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis
Humans did not always see themselves as he separate from the natural world. If we are to reverse its decline, we must re-entangle ourselves with it.
The Conversation
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7 Nov 2019
This Election Is Where We Decide the Planet’s Future
With vast swathes of the planet quite literally on fire, 71% of Britons agree climate crisis is a more pressing issue than Brexit, writes Eleanor P...
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Novara Media
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3 Nov 2019
Thousands of Britons invited to climate crisis citizens' assembly
Only 110 of 30,000 who receive invites will take part in event over four weekends next year
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California Governor Declares Statewide Emergency as 180,000 Flee Kincade Fire
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency as "unprecedented high-wind events" fueled more than a dozen wildfires.
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EcoWatch
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29 Oct 2019
Scientists Show How Fossil Fuel Industry Deceived the Public About the Climate Crisis
An international group of scientists released a report today detailing how the fossil fuel industry actively campaigned to sow doubt about the clim...
EcoWatch
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22 Oct 2019
In his new book on the power of imagination, Rob Hopkins suggest ten ways to imagine yourself out of a climate crisis
It’s finally here to buy - Rob Hopkins’ From “What Is” to “What If”: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want . As the pie...
climate crisis @The Alternative UK
Why Extinction Rebellion Might Succeed — and in Many Ways, Already Has
The U.K.-based social movement for climate action could be on the way toward winning its ultimate goal — system change.
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Truthout
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20 Oct 2019
Amazonian shaman visits BlackRock headquarters in London
At the core of the climate crisis lies the continued funding of fossil fuels and at the core of that lies one company; BlackRock, a $6.5 trillion a...
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Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
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The Guardian
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16 Oct 2019
What are Extinction Rebellion's key demands?
The environmental activists want to force political leaders to take urgent action on the climate emergency
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The Guardian
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9 Oct 2019
41% of UK Species Have Declined Since 1970, Major Report Finds
"Most detailed report ever" on the state of the UK's wildlife.
EcoWatch
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6 Oct 2019
Greta Thunberg isn’t the only trailblazing young climate leader. Activists from the Amazon to Nigeria share their ideas for battling the climate crisis.
Hundreds of young people from countries around the world have their own ideas about how to solve the climate crisis.
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Insider
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2 Oct 2019
Greta Thunberg to world leaders: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood'
'You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,' climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate a...
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YouTube
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24 Sep 2019
Greta Thunberg to critics of climate action: "If we can save the banks, we can save the world"
#ClimateStrike founder rejects argument that climate action is too expensive: "People in power do not lack money"
Salon
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23 Sep 2019
'Americans are waking up': two thirds say climate crisis must be addressed
Major CBS News poll released as part of Covering Climate Now, a collaboration of more than 250 news outlets around the world to strengthen coverage...
The Guardian
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17 Sep 2019
Naomi Klein: 'We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism'
The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope
The Guardian
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17 Sep 2019
$1m a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world - report
‘Perverse’ payments must be redirected to measures such as capturing carbon, report says
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The Guardian
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17 Sep 2019
Lib Dems set out radical agenda for tackling climate emergency
Exclusive: Citizens’ assemblies and a Green Investment Bank among key planks of election bid
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The Guardian
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15 Sep 2019
Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning
As the climate crisis escalates, we must develop strategies for living while recognizing the contradictions at hand.
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Truthout
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3 Sep 2019
Climate crisis: More fires burning across central Africa than Amazon as global deforestation rates approach record high
While focus has slowly grown on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, it has emerged an even greater number of fires are currently bu...
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The Independent
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30 Aug 2019
'Ecological grief': Greenland residents traumatised by climate emergency
Islanders are struggling to reconcile impact of global heating with traditional way of life, survey finds
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The Guardian
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18 Aug 2019
Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis
National ‘green legacy’ initiative aims to reduce environmental degradation
The Guardian
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30 Jul 2019
This is how trees could help solve the climate crisis
Most strategies for tackling climate change focus on reducing future emissions. Reforestation could help deal with the hundreds of gigatonnes of ca...
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World Economic Forum
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21 Jul 2019
Flooding Disrupts DC as Capital Receives Month’s Rain in 1 Hour
The Washington, DC region received a month's worth of rain in one hour Monday, leading to the most severe flooding in the area in recent years, The...
EcoWatch
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11 Jul 2019
Police Tear-Gas Climate Activists in Paris on 'Hottest Day in History of France'
French riot police tear-gassed climate protesters in Paris on Friday as the county sweltered under record heat.
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EcoWatch
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5 Jul 2019
Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide
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The Guardian
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5 Jul 2019
‘Climate apartheid’: UN expert says human rights may not survive
Right to life is likely to be undermined alongside the rule of law, special rapporteur says
The Guardian
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1 Jul 2019
Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis
Governments have abrogated responsibility with woefully inadequate policies, says letter
The Guardian
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1 Jul 2019
Why does ritual matter for social change?
In consciously attempting to re-enchant the world we can strengthen social bonds as well as our connection to the earth.
openDemocracy
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15 Jun 2019
‘High likelihood of human civilisation coming to end’ by 2050, report finds
Human civilisation as we know it may have already entered its last decades, a worrying new report examining the likely future of our planet’s habit...
The Independent
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5 Jun 2019
Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment
From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’
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The Guardian
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21 May 2019
FTP082: Charles Eisenstein - The New Story of Climate and Humanity (Part 2)
Our guest in this episode is Charles Eisenstein, the author of "Sacred Economics" and his most recent book "Climate: A New Story". Charles explores...
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