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UN Chief Warns World 'Way Off Track' on Tackling Climate Crisis as New Report Underscores Need for Bold Global Action

A fire rages in Bobin, Australia on Nov. 9, 2019, as firefighters try to contain dozens of out-of-control blazes across the state of New South Wales.

Study Suggests Twitter Bots Have 'Substantial Impact' on Spreading Climate Misinformation

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A quarter of climate-related tweets in the studied period—around when Trump announced plans to ditch the Paris agreement—came from bots.

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Climate Crisis Could Cause a Third of Plant and Animal Species to Disappear Within 50 Years: Study

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"Successful implementation of the Paris agreement targets could help reduce...

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'The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced': Doomsday Clock Now 100 Seconds to Midnight

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

2020 Doomsday Clock

Citing the worsening nuclear threat and inaction on the climate crisis,...

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Two-Thirds of People Around the World Say Trump Can't Be Trusted to Make Right Choice on Foreign Policy

Bill de Blasio and Sadiq Khan

London and NYC Mayors Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying Fossil Fuels

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'A Win for the Planet!': Dutch Supreme Court Issues Landmark Climate Ruling

In Final Hours, COP 25 Denounced as 'Utter Failure' as Deal Is Stripped of Ambition and US Refuses to Accept Liability for Climate Crisis

Fridays for Future striker Vanessa Nakate of Uganda holds a placard reading "climate can't wait" during a protest on climate emergency, called by environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future, outside the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP25 at the 'IFEMA - Feria de Madrid' exhibition centre, in Madrid, on December 13, 2019.

'We Are Furious': As COP 25 Draws to Close, Green Campaigners Fume as Rich Nations Move to Gut Paris Agreement

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Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say 'Peak Livestock' Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating

Trump-Led Shift Away From Multilateralism Risks Survival of Future Generations and Planet, Warn The Elders

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Decrying 'Utterly Inadequate' Efforts to Tackle Climate Crisis, UN Chief Declares 'Our War Against Nature Must Stop'

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'Another Year. Another Record.': Levels of Key Climate-Heating Gases Hit New Highs in 2018, UN Reveals

Projected Fossil Fuel Production 'Dangerously Out of Step' With Global Climate Goals, UN Report Reveals

A fire rages in Bobin, Australia

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

New Zealand Wins Global Praise for 'Historic' Law to Bring Net Carbon Emissions to Zero by 2050

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Indigenous Environmental Network

Banking on Climate Change Report Reveals Banks Funded Climate Chaos with Trillions Since Paris Climate Agreement

Oil Change International

Report: Reinstating the Crude Oil Export Ban Could Cut Global Emissions as Much as 181 Million Tons Annually

Doomsday Clock Changed: It Is Now 100 Seconds From Midnight – Twin Threats of Nuclear War, Climate Change Seen as Worsening

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Investors Join Forces to Demand U.S. Energy Majors Align with Paris Climate Goals

Center for International Environmental Law

Countries Have a Duty to Pursue Disability-Inclusive Climate Action, According to New Report

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

EPA Chief Promises Year of 'Progress' To Mark Agency's 50th Anniversary...

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Kelly Trout

The Loopholes Lurking in BP’s New Climate Aims

Tim Gray

What If Limiting New Fossil Fuel Supply Is More Important Than Reducing the Emissions Produced When We Burn Them?

Erika Spanger-Siegfried

The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, a Global Movement Unleashed

Joseph Stiglitz

Is Growth Passé?

Arshad M Khan, Meena Miriam Yust

Earth In Extremis While Trump Plays Ostrich

John Atcheson

Why We Need a Green New Deal and Half Measures Won't Work

Andy Rowell

Planned Fossil Fuel Production Dangerously Out of Line With Climate Safety

Hoda Baraka

Mind the Gap: On the Glaring Hole Between Global Fossil Fuel Expansion and Paris Climate Goals

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Trump's Climate Crimes Are His Most Impeachable Offenses

Conn Hallinan

Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe