Anti-fracking protesters demonstrate outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in Central London, November 12 2018.
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A permanent fracking ban is needed to end the farce and shift resources into carbon capture and storage.
Wind whips embers from a tree burned by a wildfire in Riverside, Calif. Oct. 31, 2019.
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The Earth may be entering an era in which natural and human-generated fire together are reshaping the planet.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese, pictured at a cabinet meeting this month, says coal has a future under the renewables expansion.
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On the issue of a retreat from coal, Albanese is trying to walk both sides of the highway by wandering down the middle.
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As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
Oil pump jacks in Williston, N.D.
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How are oil companies positioning themselves for a post-carbon world? So far, cautiously.
The costs, and the pain, of climate change only increase the longer we wait to act.
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The costs, and the pain, of climate change only increase the longer we wait to act.
Justin Trudeau speaks to Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Montreal on Sept. 27, 2019.
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With her climate strike, Greta Thunberg has upended climate politics and posed the key question of who are the real radicals in current discussions.
Foreseeable climate damage to agriculture, water, infrastructure and others is already in the tens of trillions of dollars.
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Québec courts ordered tobacco companies to pay smokers $15 billion for the health problems caused by their products. Could fossil fuel companies be next?
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Had the EU eliminated all subsidies between 2010 and 2017, its emissions would have been 9% lower over the period and governments across the EU would have saved US$441 billion.
Are governments listening?
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As the UN’s Climate Action Summit approaches, governments need to start doing more than setting targets. Here’s how they can make a start.
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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.
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Fossil fuels are heating the atmosphere – but the fact that we’re burning them may not be the only reason.
Climate activists block the entrance to the Swiss bank UBS with a pile of coal in Basel, Switzerland earlier this summer. Climate protests are helping raise awareness about the ugliness of fossil fuels, and so too should the language we use.
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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.
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The fossil fuel industry depends on massive government support, which makes the public foot the bill for a harmful and uncompetitive industry.
Filling up the electric way.
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China wages ‘war on air pollution’, but turning away from fossil fuels towards natural gas has its challenges.
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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.
Steam rises from Neurath coal-fired power plant near Cologne, Germany. May 2 2019.
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A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
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A key tool for capturing and storing carbon may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
Protesters hoist a placard depicting Justin Trudeau in Vancouver on June 18, 2019.
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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?