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"Time to Cut Dirty Energy's Lifeline": Report Details How Fossil Fuel Industry Feasted on Covid-19 Relief Programs

Climate activists and many economists say governments should be funding a Green New Deal, not fossil fuel bailouts. (Photo: Andrew Hart/Flickr cc)

'No Time to Lose for Climate Action': Atmospheric CO2 Continued to Rise in 2020 Despite Covid-19 Lockdowns

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

PacifiCorp's coal fired power plant burns coal outside of Castle Dale, Utah on November 14, 2019. (Photo: George Frey/AFP via Getty Images)

The World Meteorological Organization called for "more sustained and ambitious climate action to reduce emissions to net zero through a compete transformation of our industrial, energy, and transport systems."

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'No Vaccine for Climate Change': Coronavirus Has Been Disastrous, Says Red Cross, But Global Warming Poses Greater Threat

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

While "Covid-19 has demonstrated that humanity has the capacity to recognize and respond to a global crisis," the authors of a new report on world disasters wrote, "climate change is an even more significant challenge to humanity... one which literally threatens our long-term survival." (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

"The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is to a truly global...

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'Unreal & Heartbreaking': Experts Highlight Climate Crisis Connection as Category 5 Hurricane Iota Barrels Toward Central America

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A man walks along a damaged street after the passage of Hurricane Eta in La Lima, Cortes, Honduras, on November 16, 2020 as Hurricane Iota—upgraded to Category 5—moves over the Caribbean toward the Nicaragua-Honduras border. (Photo: Wendell Escoto/AFP via Getty Images)

"It's a simple equation: as the global temperature rises storms get bigger,...

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Melting permafrost in Canada's Northwest Territories, a sign of accelerating global heating. (Photo: Charles Tarnocai/Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Humans May Have Passed the 'Point of No Return' in Climate Crisis, Says Study—But That Doesn't Mean All Hope Is Lost

Residents gather along road damaged by heavy rains brought by the super Typhoon Goni after it hit the town of Malinao, Albay province, south of Manila on November 1, 2020. (Photo: Charism Sayat/AFP via Getty Images)

Super Typhoon Goni Strikes the Philippines as 'Strongest Landfalling Tropical Cyclone on Record,' Spurring Calls for Climate Justice

New York State banking regulators have told banks they must factor climate-related risks in their business plans. (Photo: Ramy Majouji/WikiMedia Commons)

In 'Road Map for a More Sustainable Future,' NY Regulator Tells Banks to Consider Climate Risks in Planning

An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope borough, Alaska. "New absurdities from Big Oil," said the Energy Watch Group, which advocates for renewable energy, in response to the reporting. "What do you do when the Arctic is melting, threatening your drilling infrastructure—but you really don't want to stop drilling? Right, cooling the ground beneath the infrastructure and keep on drilling." (Photo illustration: Original by Bonnie Jo Mount/via Getty Images/with overlay)

'Demented': Oil Giant Refreezing Rapidly Melting Permafrost So It Can Keep Climate-Killing Arctic Drilling Alive

'Sadistic and Depraved': Trump Rejects California Request for Federal Disaster Aid to Recover From Catastrophic Wildfires

Firefighters perform structure protection against the Glass Fire in Napa County, California on Thursday, October 1, 2020. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Planet Earth, Says NOAA, Just Had Its Hottest September on Record

Commuters in Dhaka, Bangladesh contend with floodwaters following heavy rains on October 12, 2020. (Photo: Nayan Kar/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

'Uninhabitable Hell' for Millions: UN Report Sounds Alarm on Humanity's Continued Destruction of Planet Earth

Gov. Gavin Newsom tours wildfire-ravaged Geyserville in the California Wine Country during the Kincaid Fire on October 25, 2019. (Photo: Karl Mondon/MediaNewsGroup/San Jose Mercury News/Getty Images)

As California Burns, Climate Activists Call on Gov. Gavin Newsom to Stop #FuelingTheFlames

Scientists Warn 2020 on Pace to Be Hottest Year Ever as September Heat Smashes Previous Record

A firefighter battles a blaze near homes in Madera County, California on September 7, 2020. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

'The First Time... But it Won't Be the Last': Climate Activists Warn California's First Gigafire Is the Shape of Things to Come

In this long exposure photo, the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, California on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

From the Front Lines of California's Fires, Yolo County Joins 1,750+ Communities in Declaring Climate Emergency

Even as Major Politicians Continue to Drag Feet, Poll Shows Majority in US Want Bold Climate Action and End of Fossil Fuels

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350.org

350.Org Stands With Communities Impacted by Fossil-Fueled Hurricane Zeta

Center for Biological Diversity

Gov. Newsom's Climate Initiative Omits Key Actions on Oil Drilling, Fracking...

Environment America

'Climate Week' Panel: The Fierce Urgency of Fire, Explained...

Environment America

Environment America Unveils New Initiatives During Climate Week

Stand Up America

As West Burns, McConnell Says Filibuster Will Be “Firewall” On Progressive Legislation, Including Climate Action

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

New UCS Web Feature Visualizes Ways Climate Change is Driving Wildfires, Experts Also Available

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Andy Rowell

Crisis, What Climate Crisis? Oil Majors Still Sitting on Tens of Billions of Barrels of Undeveloped Reserves

Pip Hinman

Scientists Say Net Zero by 2050 Is Too Late

Juan Cole

Georgia Sen. David Perdue Ready to Save His Ocean-Front Mansion From Rising Seas While Voting to Burn More Oil and Gas

Nick Turse

A Convergence of Calamities

Lee van der Voo

Remember This the Next Time Someone Says a Green Economy Would Be Too Expensive

Jen Ann Simmons

To Mitigate Wildfires, Divest from Fossil Fuels

Kristy Dahl

5 of California’s 6 Largest Fires on Record Are Burning Now: The Astonishing 2020 Wildfire Season in Context

Henry Coleman

What to Do When the World is on Fire

Tom Engelhardt

Fire and Fury Like the World Has Never Seen

Andy Rowell

Hothouse US: Catastrophic Fires Spreading Smoke From the West; Five Cyclones To the East