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Most countries aren't hitting 2030 climate goals, and everyone will pay the price
The majority of the carbon emission reduction pledges for 2030 that 184 countries made under the Paris Agreement aren’t nearly enough to keep global warming well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius). Some countries won’t achieve their pledges, and some of the world's largest carbon emitters will continue to increase their emissions, according to a panel of world-class climate scientists.
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Extinction Rebellion wins court challenge against London police
The eco-protest group Extinction Rebellion won a bid against London's Metropolitan Police on Wednesday over the imposition of a city-wide ban against the group's series of demonstrations last month. The high court ruled that the blanket ban police issued on Oct. 14 to 18 was unlawful, a decision protesters are celebrating.
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Italy to become first country to make studying climate change compulsory in schools
Italy is to become the first country in the world in which the study of climate change will be made compulsory in schools, the education minister announced on Tuesday.
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Climate emergency 'clear and unequivocal'
Around 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency.
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Defying Trump, governors who represent over half the U.S. population pledge to uphold Paris climate agreement
The Trump administration has formally started the process to pull America out of the landmark Paris climate change agreement.
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If Emissions Continue, India Could See 1 Million Heat Deaths a Year
Premature deaths from extreme heat next century could top those from infectious diseases today
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Greta Thunberg - Halloween
So today is Halloween. I don’t celebrate it back home, but I thought I might give it a try. And apparently when it comes to scaring a bunch of angry climate crisis deniers - I don’t even have to dress up!!
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Rex Tillerson to Take the Stand in Exxon Climate Change Case
The shareholder fraud lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general against Exxon Mobil has entered its second week, and on Wednesday a star witness is scheduled to take the stand: Rex Tillerson, the company’s former chief executive and a former secretary of state in the Trump administration.
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Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds
For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States. A new analysis by Princeton researchers explains why this trend is likely to continue with global warming: Both the higher moisture content of warmer air and storms’ increasing wind speeds conspire to produce wetter storms.
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Brown: California fires show 'the horror' world will face from climate change
As Californians suffer widespread power outages and mass evacuations due to wildfire dangers, former Gov. Jerry Brown is warning that the dark scenario may be “only the beginning” for Americans across the country — unless officials in Washington seriously tackle the issue of climate change.
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Super-rich fuelling growing demand for private jets, report finds
Almost 8,000 new private jets are expected to be bought by multinational companies and the super-rich over the next decade, each of which will burn 40 times as much carbon per passenger as regular commercial flights, according to a report by aviation firm Honeywell Aerospace.
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Super-rich fuelling growing demand for private jets, report finds
Growth centred in US and China, with slowdown in Sweden attributed to Greta Thunberg
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As the Arctic heats up, what’s in store for its food webs?
The view from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, is endless snow-covered mountains and glassy, frigid water. You need to travel roughly 400 miles west from the remote Norwegian archipelago to reach the northeast coast of Greenland.
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Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink
Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from global temperature rise.
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Massachusetts Sues Exxon Over Climate Change, Accusing Oil Giant of Fraud
Exxon is facing allegations of deceptive advertising, misleading investors and actions that threaten the world economy. It's already on trial in New York.
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Someday, They'll Be Amazed We Didn't Impeach Trump Over the Climate Crisis
Yeah, Ukraine. But actively undermining our efforts to combat an existential threat to human civilization as we know it surely qualifies as a high crime.
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Secret Deal Helped Housing Industry Stop Tougher Rules on Climate Change
WASHINGTON — A secret agreement has allowed the nation’s homebuilders to make it much easier to block changes to building codes that would require new houses to better address climate change, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
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Earth's rocks can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: here’s how
The depths of the planet offer a rock-hard potential solution to climate change.
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Trump wants to take climate change off the G7 agenda. It doesn't really work that way.
Buried in the flurry of headline-grabbing statements last week by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney about Ukraine, presidential quid pro quo, and a plan to host the next G7 summit at the president’s own golf resort was another announcement that attracted less notice. Climate change, Mulvaney said, won’t be included in the G7 summit’s formalized agenda when the leaders of the world’s major economic powers meet in June.
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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says
The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.
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