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Scientists Warn 4°C World Would Unleash 'Unimaginable Amounts of Water' as Ice Shelves Collapse

Icebergs Weddell Sea are seen near Snow Hill Island, Antarctica. (Photo: David Tipling/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg Says She'll Skip UN Climate Conference Over Covid-19 Vaccine Inequity

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg protests during a "Fridays for Future" protest in front of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm on October 9, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images)

"Of course I would love to attend the Glasgow #COP26," she tweeted Friday. "But not unless everyone can take part on the same terms."

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Coalition Calls for 'Building a Fairer, Healthier World' Through Climate Action

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The Global Climate and Health Alliance marked World Health Day on Wednesday with a call for governments to learn from the coronavirus pandemic and make health policies a central part of climate commitments and action. (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)

"The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that health must be part and parcel of...

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Amnesty International's Annual Global Human Rights Report Details Harm—and Heroism—Amid Pandemic

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A protester holds a sign showing the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic outside Pfizer's headquarters in New York City on March 11, 2021. (Photo: Erick McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Covid-19 has brutally exposed and deepened inequality both within and between...

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Activists hold signs reading "We Are Treating the Symptoms, Not the Cause" and "There Is No Planet B" during a climate justice demonstration outside the Spanish Parliament on September 25, 2020 in Madrid. (Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez via Getty Images)

'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever

Protesters make the three-finger salute as copies of the 2008 constitution are burnt during a demonstration against the Myanmar's military coup in Yangon's South Okkalapa township on April 1, 2021. (Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images)

After UN Envoy Warns of 'Bloodbath,' Junta Imposes Internet Blackout Across Myanmar

People around the world have urged governments to respond to the coronavirus crisis by forging an equitable and green economic recovery. (Photo: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

People Worldwide Said 'Build Back Better.' IEA Chief Says 'Just the Opposite' Is Happening

The signers of a new joint statement released Tuesday say that while Covid-19 has made clear that "united action is needed," they expressed their collective belief "that nations should work together towards a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response," and added that such "a renewed collective commitment would be a milestone in stepping up pandemic preparedness at the highest political level." (Photo: European Council)

'United Action Is Needed': World Leaders Back Global Pandemic Treaty

Medics attend to a protester who was shot and injured by security forces on March 27, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo: Stringer/Getty Images)

As Junta Kills Over 100 in Myanmar, UN Expert Says It Is 'Past Time for the World to Respond'

Demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar protest the coup regime's killing of a 7-year-old girl in Mandalay, The protest was held on March 24, 2021. (Photo: Stringer/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

As Myanmar Death Toll Tops 320, UN Expert Warns Crisis Will Worsen Without World's Help

General view of a hospital where health officers, wearing masks and special protective suits, take care of a patient infected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a hospital in Tehran, Iran on March 02, 2020. (Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Faith Groups Part of Human Rights Coalition Urging Biden to Ease Sanctions Amid Pandemic

A child walks by a mural showing a U.S. drone in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

'Death Falling From the Sky': Report Spotlights Civilian Harm From US Drone Strikes in Yemen

United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Agnès Callamard delivers her report on the execution of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 26, 2019. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

'It Was Understood' as a Death Threat, Says UN Expert Who Saudi Official Warned Could Be 'Taken Care Of'

<p>A carbon explorer searches for data on global warming. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/berkeleylab/2826539120">Berkeley Lab</a>/Flickr/cc)</p>

Experts Urge World Leaders to 'Put Marine Ecosystems at the Heart of Climate Policy'

An Indian man walks over the parched bed of a reservoir on the outskirts of Chennai on May 17, 2017. (Photo: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)

'Safe Water Is a Right, Not a Privilege': On World Water Day, UN Decries Unequal Access

Smoke rises from explosions during the first few minutes of a massive air attack on March 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. The third year anniversary since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein will be marked on April 9, 2006 amidst continued unrest in Iraq, where over 30, 000 civilians have been reported to be killed since the start of the war. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie /Getty Images)

On 18th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, Activists Renew Calls for US Reparations

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Coalition Opposes Rahm Emanuel For Ambassador Post

Jubilee USA Network

Senate Confirms United Nations Ambassador

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Earth Day Summit Signals US Serious About Working with World Leaders to Address Climate Crisis

Jubilee USA Network

High-Level Climate Summit to Launch Action Agenda

International Association of Democratic Lawyers

International Commission of Inquiry to Open Hearings on Racist Police Violence in the US on MLK Day

North Carolina Medicare for All Coalition

Emergency Press Conference On Human Rights Day to Address the Worsening COVID-19 Crisis and to Demand Medicare for All

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Adam Parsons, Sonja Scherndl

It's Time to End the Insanity of Colossal Military Spending and Reallocate Funds to Basic Economic and Social Needs

Medhini Kumar

If the US Wants to Tackle the Climate Crisis Equitably, It Should Support UNRWA in Gaza

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies

U.S. Joins "Rules-Based World" on Afghanistan

Sabrina Ahmed

Plant-Based Diets Can Help Save the Planet

Robert Radin

Why the United States Calls Some Refugees 'Asylees'

John McEvoy

UN Rebuke of Crushing US Sanctions on Venezuela Met With Stunning Silence

Juan Cole

Why Biden Is Dead Wrong on the ICC and Occupied Palestine

Lorah Steichen

The Only Good "National Security" Approach to Climate Change Is to Make the Planet Itself Safer—for Everyone Who Lives on It

Mary Lawlor

In Honduras and Across the World, Human Rights Defenders Continue To Be Killed With Impunity

Ramzy Baroud

Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma