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Demands for Bold Climate Action Mount as 'All But Rainless' Australia Faces 'Catastrophic' Fire Danger

A fire rages in Bobin, Australia

'For-Profit Motive Does Not Work': Khanna Backs Public Ownership of PG&E

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The public utility is a much better option because you're not having to worry about maximizing shareholder returns and you will make the safety investments that are necessary."

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As Climate Crisis-Fueled Fires Rage, Fears Grow of an 'Uninhabitable' California

Jon Queally and Jessica Corbett, staff writers

Fire is seen near Getty Center in Los Angeles, the United States, Oct. 28, 2019. Thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes after a fast-moving wildfire erupted early Monday morning near the famous Getty Center in Los Angeles in the western U.S. state of California. (Photo: Qian Weizhong/Xinhua via Getty)

As activist Bill McKibben put it, "We've simply got to slow down the climate...

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As PG&E Leaves Millions Without Power Amid Wildfires, Sanders Says Time to Think About 'Public Ownership of Major Utilities'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has proposed a Green New Deal that...

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Rescue Operations Underway in Japan After Typhoon Hagibis Kills Dozens and Causes 'Immense Damage'

Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria

New Study Warns 5 Billion People Could Face Higher Risk of Climate-Related Coastal Storms, Water Pollution, and Crop Losses by 2050

People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes

As Climate Crisis Threatens to Put More Homes 'Literally Underwater,' Study Warns Big Banks Offloading Risky Mortgages Onto Taxpayers

New Research Warns Severe Climate-Related Droughts Could Threaten 60% of Global Wheat Crop by 2100

UN Climate Report on Oceans, Frozen Regions Warns 'Unprecedented Transitions in All Aspects of Society' Needed to Sustain Life on Earth

The Greenland ice sheet may melt at a pace that could break records set in 2012 this year as a heatwave from Europe turns north.

To Stop the Worst Effects of the Climate Crisis, Report Says 'The Level of Ambition Needs to be Tripled'—At Minimum

'Morally Bankrupt and a Black Mark on America': Trump Condemned for Refusing to Grant Protected Status to Bahamians

"Trump's Racism and Cruelty Knows No Bounds": Outrage as President Smears Dorian Victims as Gang Members

A road is flooded during the passing of Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas on Monday Sept. 2, 2019.

New Report: ABC, CBS, NBC Covered Climate Crisis Connection to Hurricane Dorian Only Once in 216 Segments on Storm

devastation in the bahamas

Analysis Finds US Corporate Media 'Failing to Connect Climate Crisis to Strongest Atlantic Storm Ever to Hit Land'

devastation in the bahamas

As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?

At Least 5 Dead in Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian Unleashes 'One of Most Catastrophic 24-Hour Periods of Weather in Recorded World History'

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Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Study Predicts Additional Month of 100-Degree Days at US Military Bases by Midcentury

Oregon State University — College of Forestry

World Scientists Declare Climate Emergency, Establish Global Indicators for Effective Action

350.org

350.org on Latest California Wildfires and Urgent Need for Climate Action

Greenpeace

PG&E Shuts Off Power to Vulnerable California Communities for Second Time This Month

Food & Water Watch

As Wildfire Rages, Governor Newsom Must Shut Aliso Canyon Gas Facility to Protect Families

Center for Biological Diversity

Report: Climate-Fueled Superstorms Pushing 10 U.S. Species Closer to Extinction

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Kelly Trout

Decoding the IEA’s Scenario Spin: Real Reform or More of the Same?

Juan Cole

'Catastrophic' Wildfires Threaten Sydney, Australia as Government Backs Coal

Naomi Oreskes

The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All

Jill Richardson

We Need Publicly Owned Utilities

Joshua Cho

Media Failed to Connect Climate Crisis and Utility Blackouts

Robert C. Koehler

The Rights Of Nature

Chris Hedges

Anis Shivani

Lessons from Hurricane Harvey, for a Still-Flooded Houston

Frida Berrigan

Protecting the Children on a Trumpian Planet

Medea Benjamin

10 Ways That the Climate Crisis and Militarism Are Intertwined