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'We Are Furious': As COP 25 Draws to Close, Green Campaigners Fume as Rich Nations Move to Gut Paris Agreement

Fridays for Future striker Vanessa Nakate of Uganda holds a placard reading "climate can't wait" during a protest on climate emergency, called by environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future, outside the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP25 at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre, in Madrid, on December 13, 2019.

Decrying EU Proposal to Address Climate Crisis by 2050 as 'Too Little Too Late,' Greenpeace Activists Stage #HouseOnFire Demonstration

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Greenpeace activists on Thursday wrap the E.U. summit venue in Brussels with images of giant flames, setting off clouds of smoke, flares and sounding a fire alarm to urge European government leaders to take immediate action to respond to the climate emergency.

"The world is on fire and our governments are letting it burn."

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Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say 'Peak Livestock' Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"If the livestock sector were to continue with business as usual," experts warn...

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Is Democrats' USMCA Trade Deal With Trump a Big Win or 'Major Strategic Misstep?'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

While some labor unions and economists said the trade pact represents a...

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Greta Thunberg is TIME's Person of the Year for 2019, a selection that caused an outburst from an upset U.S. President Donald Trump.

After TIME Selects Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year Over Him, Trump Lashes Out in Tantrum Against 16-Year-Old Activist

Author Naomi Klein explains the danger of strongmen leaders in a video from Now This News.

'Planetary Arsonists': Naomi Klein Points to Behavior of Autocratic Leaders Like Bolsonaro, Trump as Exacerbating Climate Crisis

offshore rig

Experts Warn Chevron's $11 Billion Write-Down Portends 'Greater Troubles to Come' for Fossil Fuel Industry

Biden Climate Policies So Uniquely Bad That 350 Action Launched a Petition Demanding 2020 Frontrunner 'Do Better'

Young activists storm the stage at COP25

'We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!': Young Climate Activists Storm COP 25 Stage

Teenage Climate Leader Greta Thunberg Named TIME Magazine Person of the Year

coastal communities

Deep Trouble for Arctic and Beyond: NOAA Climate Report Warns of Feedback Loop That 'May Already Be Underway'

Warren Says Blue New Deal Crucial Because Future of People and Planet 'Depends on Healthy Oceans'

Supporters of the New York Attorney General's case against ExxonMobil gathered outside the New York County Supreme Court on Oct. 22. (Photo: Lindsay Meiman/Twitter)

'This Isn't the End,' Vow Climate Campaigners After New York Court Sides With Exxon in Fraud Trial

cop 25 protest

'A Matter of Life and Death': COP 25 Protest Outside US Embassy Demands Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

The climate crisis is changing the New England fishing industry, a new report says.

New England Fishing Communities Being Destroyed by 'Climate Shocks': Study

Citing Climate Crisis as Top Concern for Future of Humanity, Young Adults Say They Are Living in 'Failed System'

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Now Trump Is A Genocidal Despot Thanos Wannabe and America Is, Like, Ummm

In the spirit of our weird-ass end times, consider that Trump's "War Room" - yes, Private Five-Time Bone-Spurs has a "War Room" - just released a campaign ad portraying our most presidential "president" as murderous comic book warlord Thanos, intent on obliterating half the universe's population, in Marvel's Avengers. Questions inevitably arise: Do they realize he's the bad guy? Do they care? Do they know the movie ends with Thanos expunged like this? Is it all almost over?

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Friends of the Earth International

COP25: Climate Talks 'Out of Touch With Reality' As Rich Countries Seek to Gut Paris Agreement, Says Friends of the Earth International...

Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement Launches First Wave of Congressional Primary Endorsements, Fortifying Green New Deal Campaigns in Purple and Blue Districts

As You Sow

Chevron to Write Down Assets by at Least $10 Billion, Elevating Investor Concern

350 Action

Joe Biden Can Do Better on Climate: 350 Action Launches Biden 2020 Petition

Public Citizen

Conflicts of Interest Appear Rampant Within the Interior Department

Social Security Works

Progressives Win Two Huge Victories Over Big Pharma

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