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Goldman Sachs to stop financing new drilling for oil in the Arctic
US bank becomes the first to establish a no-go zone in the oil and gas sector
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This foam can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere
Carbon Capture and Storage could have its breakthrough moment, thanks to zeolites.
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'We’ve lost an important opportunity’
Leaders, experts and activists react to the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid.
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Greta Thunberg says 'we will put world leaders against the wall'
Greta Thunberg told cheering protesters today 'we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall' if they fail to take urgent action on climate change. The Swedish teen activist was addressing the crowd at a Fridays for Future protest in Turin, Italy.
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Greta Thunberg says she ‘needs a rest’ after year of global climate activism
Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg has said she needs a rest, after spending the year traversing the globe by sea, road and rail to wake up world leaders and the public to the threat of global warming. After being named Time magazine’s Person of the Year – and attacked on Twitter by jealous US president Donald Trump – the 16-year-old Swede joined thousands of students in the northren Italian city of Turin on Friday to pressure the country’s government into cutting carbon emissions.
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Children Hold Canada and Norway Accountable for Climate Failures
The teens are pissed. Perhaps you’ve heard. Young people have cranked up the pressure all year on world leaders in an attempt to get them to address climate change. In September, 16 teenagers filed a petition against five countries for violating their rights. The petition is in the process of wending its way through an international review process, but those same petitioners have put two more countries on watch.
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Climate change has made the world's deadliest lake way more dangerous
Inside the epic, decades-long battle to tame a lake so swollen it threatens to wipe out an entire city center.
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Last remaining glaciers in Pacific ‘will melt away in less than a decade,’ study says
The world’s last remaining tropical glaciers, which exist high in mountain ranges between the Andes and the Himalayas, are on course to melt completely in less than a decade due to the climate crisis, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are “the canaries in the coal mine” for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, said Professor Lonnie Thompson, one of the senior authors of the study.
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Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year
Greta Thunberg sits in silence in the cabin of the boat that will take her across the Atlantic Ocean. Inside, there’s a cow skull hanging on the wall, a faded globe, a child’s yellow raincoat. Outside, it’s a tempest: rain pelts the boat, ice coats the decks, and the sea batters the vessel that will take this slight girl, her father and a few companions from Virginia to Portugal. For a moment, it’s as if Thunberg were the eye of a hurricane, a pool of resolve at the center of swirling chaos. In here, she speaks quietly. Out there, the entire natural world seems to amplify her small voice, screaming along with her.
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Fossil fuel firms 'could be sued' for climate change
The world’s most polluting companies could be sued for their contributions to global warming, a major human rights inquiry has found in what has been described as a “landmark victory for climate justice”. The head of a Philippines Commission on Human Rights panel, which has been investigating climate change for three years, revealed its conclusions on Monday that major fossil fuel firms may be held legally responsible for the impacts of their carbon emissions.
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The World Solved the Ozone Problem. It Can Solve Climate Change.
Nearly 50 years ago, three chemists named Mario Molina, Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen found evidence that chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals known as CFCs and released from aerosol sprays, were weakening the ozone layer that functions as the earth’s natural sunscreen protecting humans, animals and plants from harmful radiation.
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How a closed-door meeting shows farmers are waking up on climate change
Perdue, Vilsack and leading agricultural groups gathered in a Maryland barn to talk about the farm-country issue that dare not speak its name.
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Greta Thunberg press Conference at the UN: I will share my platform
Greta Thunberg has announced at COP25 in Madrid that she realises she has a platform but that she will share it with the worlds most vulnerable people for whom climate change is a reality today. This press conference took place on the morning of 9th December 2019 and includes personal statements from representatives of indigenous peoples on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
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World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds
A new report found that oxygen levels in the world’s oceans declined by 2 percent over 50 years, threatening marine life around the planet.
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Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash – it's time to talk about near-term collapse
After a quarter of a century of nations from around the world coming together to discuss progress in dealing with climate change, emissions are still rising. The 25th annual United Nations climate change summit is now underway – and for the sake of the planet, it’s high time it changed its approach.
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11,000 Scientists Declare a Climate Emergency, Warn of ‘Untold Suffering’ Unless We Act
On the 40th anniversary of the First World Climate Conference, more than 11,000 scientists have come together to urge immediate action on the climate crisis, The Guardian reported. "Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to 'tell it like it is,'" a group of scientists wrote in a letter published in BioScience Tuesday.
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Oceans running out of oxygen say scientists
Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish. That's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN. While nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse. Around 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.
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Climate change is displacing 20 million people each year, Oxfam study shows
Internal displacements due to climate-related extreme weather events are soaring, with those in poorer countries more at risk.
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Climate Change Could Be Making Birds Smaller
Forty years of data show that migratory birds have been shrinking as the planet warms.
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The necessity of pulling carbon dioxide out of the air
But it is difficult to do at the scale you need
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