The use of fossil fuels has to end and be replaced by sustainable energy as quickly as possible. The Paris Agreement was a good start but states continuing to work together is key.
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Geology will be key to any green transition, but its academic reputation needs an urgent makeover.
Fossil fuels are heating the atmosphere – but the fact that we're burning them may not be the only reason.
If how we speak about the world we want to see is crucial in building support for climate change momentum, then what is visible and invisible, strange and normal, positive and negative, must change.
The fossil fuel industry depends on massive government support, which makes the public foot the bill for a harmful and uncompetitive industry.
China wages 'war on air pollution', but turning away from fossil fuels towards natural gas has its challenges.
The vast majority of climate scientists agree that rising CO₂ is driving climate change, yet barely 50% of the public agrees. Did scientists get the story wrong? No, as the fossil record makes clear.
A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
If the climate is in peril, why has the federal government approved a pipeline that will ship close to 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to British Columbia?
By enacting a legislative framework to achieve carbon neutrality, France and the United Kingdom are making a difference in the fight against climate change.
Mexico is a leader in climate change action in the developing world. But renewing its commitment to oil may stymie further progress.
By appealing to the hearts and minds of their white neighbors, Native Americans are carving out common ground. Together, these different groups are building unity through diversity.
The 'thin green line' of resistance against any new infrastructure for shipping oil, gas and coal abroad has won many battles.
The Trump administration plan to expand offshore oil and gas production along US coastlines faces serious roadblocks. But there are smarter ways to pursue 'energy dominance.'
Human civilisation is threatened by long-dead organisms, whether as White Walkers or petrol.
The transport sector is the fastest growing contributor of greenhouse gases. Electric vehicles are a cost-effective solution.
During the Cold War, socialism was portrayed as a gateway drug to communist orthodoxy. The crisis in Venezuela has resurrected tired old tropes about “pinks” and “useful idiots."
The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
Natural gas supplies are growing, but so are other markets for it besides power generation.
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