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And even then, victory is far from guaranteed.
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Researchers say that global efforts to cut carbon are far short of what's needed to avert dangerous climate change.
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London - This year marked the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which swept through America’s Gulf coast, wreaking a staggering USD 108 billion in damage and killing more than 1,800 people
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A grassroots alternative to the UN climate talks, POC21, has brought together designers and eco-geeks to dream up solutions for more sustainable living.
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President Obama spoke at the "GLACIER" conference in Anchorage, Alaska, and encourages nations to move faster on climate change.
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Climate scientists are predicting that 2015 will be the hottest year on record “by a mile”, with the increase in worldwide average temperatures dramatically undermining the idea that global warming has stopped – as some climate-change sceptics claim.
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It's not just the pope anymore. Sixty Muslim leaders from around the globe are calling for serious action to address climate change.
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Her home now is a small, one-room structure with no electricity or running water. Seeta treks kilometers into the forest to fish and collect firewood: she is her family’s sole breadwinner.
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With proper management of coral reefs that defend Pacific Islands and provide important sea health and climate records, the reefs might be able to continue growing vertically.
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Perhaps the Terminator can accomplish what world leaders have failed to do for more than 20 years: forge a comprehensive treaty to tackle climate change. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former California Governor and star of Hollywood’s Terminator franchise, addressed a gathering of world spiritual and philosophical leaders in Paris on Tuesday organized by the French government.
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Investments in fossil fuel companies face serious risk from global warming, research by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows
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New research suggests that climate change could reduce coral reefs' ability to protect tropical islanders against a wave attack.
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Bill Gates explains why the climate crisis will not be solved by the free market.
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Today labor and environmental organizations released a new report, The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs and Saving Money, showing that the United States can reduce greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions 80 percent by 2050 — while adding half-a-million jobs and saving Americans billions of dollars on their electrical, heating, and transportation costs.
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"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to ...
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The service's new head of global policy has his work cut out for him.
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The agency is flexing its muscles to study Greenland -- the melting that is occurring on top of the ice sheet, and the retreat of its outlying, oceanfront glaciers.
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Freak wild fires are becoming the new normal as global weather patterns have changed dramatically but we still not have accepted that
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he United Nations’ new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are about to replace the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), are getting a lot of hate these days.
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Following the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change, a major conference on climate change was held at the Vatican. Speakers included our guest, Naomi Klein, author of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.” We speak to Klein about her trip to the Vatican and the importance of the pope’s message – not only on climate change, but the global economy.
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Oil! Our secret god, fulfiller of our every desire. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind.
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Naomi Klein didn't think climate change was her issue but when she realised the close link between environmental destruction and inequality, everything chang...
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