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Al Gore Has Just One Small Bit of Advice for Trump: 'Resign'

Al Gore

Fearing Trump Censorship, Govt. Scientists Leak Alarming Climate Report

Julia Conley, staff writer

A new report shows that even if humans were to immediately halt carbon emissions, the earth's temperature would still rise over the next century due to irreversible damage that's already been done.

A leaked draft of an extensive federal climate change report is causing alarm on Tuesday—both because of its findings, which make clear that the U.S. is currently experiencing the effects of climate change, and because of statements by the report's authors, who say they're concerned President Donald Trump will try to suppress the paper. The 543-...

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Emails Show USDA Staff Told to 'Avoid' Term 'Climate Change' Under Trump

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

USDA

Staffers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) service responsible for...

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New Report Reveals Water Threats Posed by the "Dirty Three's" Pipeline Routes

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Pipeline protest

A recently released Greenpeace report found four proposed pipelines that would...

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"This means that in seven months, we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year, we caught more fish, felled more trees, harvested more, and consumed more water than the Earth was able to produce in the same period," World Wildlife Fund and Global Footprint Network said in a statement.

'Earth Is Exhausted': Humans Have Already Consumed the Planet's Annual Resources

Coal power plant in Wyoming

Utilities Knew, Too: Despite Warning Decades Ago, Industry Lied and Deceived on Climate

This Billionaire Mega-Donor Gets It: The Democrats Need Bernie

Jerry Brown's Climate Plan Just Another 'Handout to Big Oil,' Green Groups Say

Floods in Louisiana in August 2016

'When Rising Seas Hit Home': Hundreds of Towns Threatened by 2100

Massive #ExxonKnew Iceberg Breaks Free

Warning of Sixth Mass Extinction, Scientists Implore Global Action

'Landslide Victory' for Climate as G20 Leaders (Minus Trump) Affirm Paris Accord

Amid G20 Talks, Greenpeace Activists Scale Bridge Demanding 'End to Age of Coal'

Demonstrators protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate change accord.

Offering Moral Leadership, UCC Urges Clergy to 'Be Bold and Courageous' in Climate Fight

As Climate Threats Mount, Experts Say No Time Left for Deceitful "Debate"

Court Smacks Down Trump's 'Capricious' Attempt to Eliminate Methane Rule

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Food & Water Watch

Advocates Praise Sen. Sanders and Call on Senate Dems to Follow His Lead in Opposing Dirty Energy Bill

Oil Change International

Statement: G20 Leaders Shame Trump, but Fail to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies

350.org

350.org on New Revelations in #ExxonKnew Case

350.org

Portland, OR, City Council Passes Resolution Opposing New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

350.org

Canadian Social Movement Leaders Pledge Support for Historic Act of Climate Civil Disobedience

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Evan Popp

Trump Nominates Non-Scientist to the Top Science Position at the Department of Agriculture

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Donald Trump’s Climate Change Denial Ignites the Grass Roots

Sarah van Gelder

Our Best Shot at Meeting Paris Goals? Make Energy Public

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres

Brazil on Verge of Legitimizing Amazon Land Theft on a Grand Scale

Ken Kimmell

If the Feds Won't Face Climate Change, the Region Can

Michael T. Klare

Battle for the Future: Trump's Dystopian Vision vs. Push for Brave Green World

Ezra Silk

The “100 by ’50 Act” Cannot Become Our “North Star”

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