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Wealthy Nations Are Eating The...

Jul 16, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

Wealthy Nations Are Eating Their Way Past the Paris Agreement’s Climate Targets

Properly Addressing Climate Ch...

Jul 8, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

Properly Addressing Climate Change Requires Letting Go Of Misguided Ideology

The World’s Oceans Are Poised ...

Sep 10, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The earth’s oceans are the source of all life. Covering 140 million square miles — some 72% of the earth’s surface — the oceans determine much about what happens with climate and weather.

Big Oil undermines U.N. climat...

Sep 6, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Major oil companies have approved $50 billion of projects since last year that will not be economically viable if governments implement the Paris Agreement on climate change, think-tank Carbon Tracker said in a report published on Friday.

The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lung...

Aug 28, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.

Shell shows how Big Oil cracks...

Apr 5, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, recently said it had dropped out of a Washington D.C. industry lobbying group, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, or AFPM. Why? Because Shell supports the Paris Agreement on climate change and the lobbying group doesn’t.

COP24: Nationalism and the cha...

Nov 29, 2018 by Casey Coates Danson

At a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.

6 Charts to Understand U.S. St...

Aug 16, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Johannes Friedrich, Mengpin Ge and Alexander Tankou WRI.ORG Coal-fired power plant near Becker, Minnesota....

Leaked draft reveals a devasta...

Aug 12, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Joe Romm CLIMATE PROGRESS The United States faces a choice between manageable warming and unmanageable catastrophe,...

The Uninhabitable Earth

Jul 12, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. By David...

WITH ‘MORE AT STAKE̵...

Jul 8, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] e World Features Video Latest Mark Hand Climate reporter @ThinkProgress. Mayor Landrieu calls climate change an...

STEPHEN HAWKING ISSUES DIRE WA...

Jul 6, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Joe Romm Dr. Joe Romm is Founding Editor of Climate Progress, “the indispensable blog,” as NY Times columnist Tom...

NOW WE KNOW HOW TRUMP’S ...

Jun 6, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst climate desk By James West GRIST This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is...

WHILE TRUMP’S AMERICA IS...

Jun 3, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Samantha Page ThinkProgress. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, center, with European Council President Donald Tusk,...

TRUMP FALSELY CLAIMS PARIS DEA...

Jun 3, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] Joe Romm Dr. Joe Romm is Founding Editor of Climate Progress, By exiting the Paris climate deal, President Donald Trump...

MERKEL, AFTER DISCORDANT G-7 M...

May 30, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

[Translate] By ALISON SMALE and STEVEN ERLANGER NYTIMES Photo Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Munich on Sunday. “The times...

THE MEDIA IS FAILING TO CHALLE...

May 15, 2017 by Casey Coates Danson

It may seem like a distant memory now, given President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, but the top political news at the beginning of this week was the administration’s unexpected dismissal of nine government scientists from the 18-member Environmental Protection Agency board that oversees the department’s scientific research.