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Nobel Prize

Nobel Laureates Urge Humanity to Stop 'Taking Colossal Risks With Our Common Future'

"We need to reinvent our relationship with planet Earth. The future of all life on this planet—humans and our societies included—requires us to become effective stewards of the global commons."
Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·
The sky over San Francisco and much of northern California turned orange on September 9, 2020 due to numerous climate-driven wildfires burning in the region. (Photo: Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
View of the Tesoro Anacortes oil refinery in Skagit County, Washington on January 15, 2017. (Photo: Linda, Fortuna future/Flickr/cc)

101 Nobel Laureates Urge World Leaders to 'Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground'

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg

For Second Year Straight, Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

Newest Nobel Economics Laureates Praised for Experimental Research Into Poverty—and Their Work's Real-World Impact

Julia Conley, staff writer ·

Greta Thunberg

Ahead of Global #ClimateStrike She Inspired, 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

It’s time for the world to sit up and listen, because the work is far from over.(Photo: Screenshot)

Mukwege and Murad Nobel Win Amplifies Voices of Sexual Violence Survivors in Era of Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford

The importance of this win cannot be overstated

Donna McKay ·

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Two 'Courageous' Campaigners Against Sexual Violence as Weapon of War

"Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes."

Julia Conley, staff writer ·

Anti-Nuclear Coalition Accepts Nobel Peace Prize As Calls for Disarmament Grow

"The only rational course of action is to cease living under the conditions where our mutual destruction is only one impulsive tantrum away."

Julia Conley, staff writer ·

The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN: Saving Humanity from Itself

The Nobel Committee has joined people all over the world in calling on the nuclear armed states to begin the serious negotiations toward the complete elimination of these weapons

Robert Dodge ·

Aung San Suu Kyi: A Leader in Denial?

Speech given by political leader of Myanmar "was disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst," said one human rights advocate

Tharanga Yakupitiyage, IPS News ·

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her house in Rangoon, Burma, on December 2, 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

Deep Shame on Suu Kyi and Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi should have her Nobel Prize revoked.

Eric Margolis ·

A Nobel Appeal to Norway

On one country's historic opportunity to redefine climate leadership

Hannah McKinnon ·

Henry Kissinger

Groups Demand Arrest of 'War Mastermind' Kissinger at Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Nobel Peace Prize committee honors Kissinger a second time with speaking engagement at new forum on world peace

Nika Knight, staff writer ·

Time for the Nobel Committee to Divest from Fossil Fuels

The Nobel Prize celebrates the greatest achievements of and for humankind. In the spirit of Alfred Nobel’s will, the Nobel Foundation needs to break with companies that cause climate change, one of the greatest threats humanity has ever faced

Eva Lenke ·

'Disillusioned Words Like Bullets Bark': Folk Great Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

'For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,' American lyricist and social icon receives prestigious award

Jon Queally, staff writer ·