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Participants of a Fridays for Future climate demonstration parade through Hamburg, Germany on Feb. 21, 2020. News
60,000-Strong Fridays for Future Protest in Hamburg, Germany Prompts Question: 'Where Are You, USA?'
"What is it going to take for the U.S. to rise up like this?"
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Residents look on as flames burn through bush on Jan. 4, 2020 in Lake Tabourie, Australia. News
'The Saddest Thing Is That This Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm
"Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!"
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Jane Fonda was fabulous. She took the makeshift stage in her red coat and hat and launched into a brilliant, clear speech calling upon California, and the rest of the nation and the world, to stop all new oil wells. (Photo: Rev. John Dear) Views
Fire Drill Fridays Take L.A.
Catastrophic climate change is not coming in fifty or one hundred years. It’s upon us now.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg News
For Second Year Straight, Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Without Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement, "the climate issue would not have been on the agenda to such an extent as it is today."
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Fridays for Future press conference News
Fridays for Future Movement Urges Greater Global Focus on Africa's Climate Champions
"African activists are doing so much," said Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, "and it gets so frustrating when no one really cares about them."
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Anna Taylor, U.K. leader of the youth climate strikes, and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg News
'A Watershed Moment': The Guardian Applauded for Banning Ads From Fossil Fuel Companies
"Who's next?" asked climate campaigners, urging all media outlets and other institutions to cut ties with planet-wrecking polluters.
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Wet markets are an established and ingrained part of Chinese community and culture, and thus it is no surprise that diseases are now jumping from animals to humans and humans to humans. (Photo by Edward Wong/South China Morning Post via Getty Images) Views
What Barry Commoner's Four Principles of Ecology Has to Do With China's Coronavirus
"The present system of production is self-destructive; the present course of human civilization is suicidal."
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a session at the Congres center during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2020. Views
Greta Thunberg Needs No Defense: Why We Must Keep Climate Striking
While President Trump dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and scientists as "perennial prophets of doom " at the World World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, climate strikers in drought-stricken southeast Australia were posting photos on Twitter of Biblical rounds of dust and...
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A youth holds a placard as she participates in a climate strike to protest against governmental inaction towards climate breakdown and environmental pollution, part of demonstrations being held worldwide in a movement dubbed "Fridays for Future" in Hyderabad on September 20, 2019. (Photo: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images) Views
Forty Years After "Baby Beluga," Here's Why I'm Enlisting in War World III to Defeat the Climate Crisis
Four decades after release of iconic children's song—and as we run out of time to respond to the existential climate emergency our world faces—I've run out of patience. We have just ten years to secure the future.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Vanessa Nakate take part in a "Friday for future" youth demonstration in a street of Davos on January 24, 2020 News
'We Have So Much More to Do,' Youth Climate Activists Declare as Global Elite Close Out Davos Forum
"It is time to get out of our comfort zones."
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