The current rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is unprecedented in the past 800,000 years. As our video explains, ice cores track human changes to the atmosphere that are far beyond natural.
A man navigates a dry riverbed in Bamako, Mali. Climate change is contributing to community upheavals.
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Chief Scientist Alan Finkel has attempted to address the energy ‘trilemma’: electricity that’s cheap, reliable and low-emissions. Has he succeeded? Our expert panel weighs in.
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, before their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Saturday, June 3, 2017.
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India, the world’s fourth-largest carbon emitter, long resisted calls to fight climate change. Now it is investing heavily in clean energy and expects to meet its Paris climate accord target early.
Poverty and conflict mean the nation is struggling to deal with rising temperatures.
People gather outside the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 1, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change accord.
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While many people are willing to happily gamble with pharmaceuticals, which may offer the most trivial of benefits, they are not ready to believe the facts on climate change.
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he would take the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and that he could negotiate a “better deal”.
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On June 1, Donald Trump announced that he would take the US out of the Paris climate agreement because it was “unfair” to the US. An economic analysis indicates otherwise.
A pre-industrial climate benchmark generally indicates before the Industrial Revolution – but that still leaves a very wide field.
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Coal-fired power plants produce air pollution that kills thousands of Americans every year. President Trump’s embrace of coal energy will delay a shift to cleaner fuels that is saving money and lives.
Is it nearly the end of the road for coal?
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The board of Indian mining firm Adani has approved its A$16 billion Carmichael coal mine. But has the Queensland government failed in its duty to be responsible with publicly owned resources such as coal?
Climate change, rising food demand and globalization are putting pressure on world food production. New research explores the risk of failures in several of the world’s breadbasket regions at once.
One day after Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris accord on climate, EU and China issued a statement from Brussels that climate change and clean energy ‘will become a main pillar’ of their bilateral partnership.
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Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement strains international relations further and strengthens the resolve of other countries to move forward on climate without the US.
Fortunately, it’s not quite so gloomy.
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Economic forces – alongside a moral imperative – are driving cities, states and companies to make changes to forestall climate change, regardless of the whims of the White House.
Contested claims in Lombok, Indonesia lead to forest encroachment and degradation.
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Communities and indigenous people would like to conserve forests, nature and biodiversity. But their priority, like that of most people, is improving their own well-being and that of their children.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
There’s strong support for wind power, which aids in addressing climate change, in Kansas and other red states for economic reasons.
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The Trump administration has already sought to reverse several Obama-era climate change policies. Pro-environment people should now focus on threats to state climate actions.
The U.S. failing to meet its Paris commitment would cause about $100 billion of damage to the global economy.
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A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump’s plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement –
ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
Solar generation in Golmud, China.
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As President Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate accord, China is cutting pollution and dominating clean energy manufacturing. Now it can claim global leadership for those actions.
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the United States will leave the Paris climate accord.
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A panel of academics and scientists explain the damages to the Earth, the economy and US moral standing in the world by Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord.