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Over a Million Forced to Evacuate as 'Potentially Catastrophic' Cyclone Fani Makes Landfall in India

'Call It a Crisis': New Report Details Failure of Cable and Network Outlets to Accurately Describe Climate Emergency

Common Dreams staff

"Words matter."

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Latest 'Wake-Up Call' of Climate Emergency as Historic Cyclone Hits Still Reeling Mozambique

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

People stand on top of a broken bridge

As aid groups call for global assistance, campaigner says unfolding disaster "...

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Watchdog Sounds Alarm Over Regulatory Capture as New Reporting Shows Nuclear Plants Unprepared for Climate Crisis

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The now-closed Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant in Florida.

"We do not have an independent regulator that is heeding its mandate to protect...

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Puerto Ricans receive food and water,

Researchers Tie Climate Crisis to Hurricane Maria's Record-Breaking Rainfall Over Puerto Rico

The Yukon River winds through western interior Alaska in early April. (Photo: UAF/Todd Paris)

Researchers Warn Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability

Flooding at Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

'State of Emergency': Pine Ridge Reservation Flooding Exposes Racial Divide in Climate Crisis

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'The Trend Is Unmistakable': New Analysis Shows Heat Records Broken Twice as Often as Cold Ones

The Nebraska National Guard prepares to carry out an air rescue near Arlington.

'Off the Charts': Catastrophic Flooding Wallops Midwest

Beira, Mozambique

'Everything Is Destroyed': 90% of Mozambique Port City Wrecked by Tropical Cyclone Idai

People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas.

'Part of a Disturbing Trend of Willful Ignorance,' Say Scientists, After Investigation Shows EPA, Texas Rejected Air Quality Data Post-Hurricane Harvey

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) attends a news conference to discuss a comprehensive plan to address the immediate humanitarian needs in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and ensure that the islands are able to rebuild in a way that empowers them to thrive on November 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

Speaking in Puerto Rico, Warren Says, 'With Trump, Cruelty Not an Accident' But 'Part of the Plan'

Pastoralists living in the Ewaso Ngiro river basin in central Kenya dig for water on April 4, 2017.

New Study Shows Climate Crisis Could Mean 'Time Bomb" for World's Groundwater

'A Disgrace': Bernie Sanders Takes Trump EPA Pick to Task for Claiming Climate Change Not 'Greatest Crisis' Facing Planet

'5-Star Award for Idiocy' as Trump Threatens to Cut Off FEMA Funds to California in Wake of Deadliest-Ever Wildfire Season

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10 Costliest Climate-Driven Extreme Weather Events of 2018 Caused at Least $84.8B in Damage: Analysis

Newswire

Greenpeace

Response to Devastation of Cyclone Idai

Earthjustice

Nation’s Largest Environmental Law Group Says Catastrophic Wildfires Show Need for Stronger, Faster Action on Climate Change

Center for Biological Diversity

Analysis: San Diego Projects to Put 40,000 People in High Fire-hazard Areas

350.org

350.org on California Wildfires and Need for Climate Action

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Woolsey Fire Burns Nuclear Meltdown Site that State Toxics Agency Failed to Clean Up

National Nurses United

RN Response Network Deploys Nurse Volunteers to Florida to Help Provide Medical Assistance Post-Hurricane Michael

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George Monbiot

Only Rebellion Will Prevent an Ecological Apocalypse

William Minter

In the Wake of Cyclone Idai, the North Has a Climate Debt to Pay

Will Bunch

As Floodwaters Rise, GOP Lawmakers are Frantically Building Levees of Climate Denial

Mark Matthews, Merry Dickinson

‘We’re Only Getting Started on our Climate Campaign’

Alfred W. McCoy

What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?

Julia Adeney Thomas

Why the “Anthropocene” Is Not “Climate Change”

Brenda Ekwurzel

Winter Storm Jayden, the Polar Vortex, and Climate Change: 3 Factors That Matter

Derrick Z. Jackson

Trump Swamp Threatens Waters of the US

Juan Cole

The Real Threat Is Invasive Climate Crisis, and Our Shield Is Science

Charles Eisenstein

Why the Climate Change Message Isn't Working

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