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Rhetoric is hardening, but government policies still honour the special relationship with fossil fuels.
School teaches us to read a text carefully in order to understand it. But on the web, ignoring information is a survival skill.
Last year, renewables provided a whopping 60% of South Australia’s electricity supplies. The remarkable progress came as national climate policy was gripped by paralysis – so how did it happen?
The Trump administration used this shortcut liberally in 2017, but its potential pitfalls and impact raise a question: Should Congress repeal it?
California was thought to be an exception, a place where oil field operations and tectonic faults apparently coexisted without much problem. Not any more.
A recent report found widespread support among North Sea oil and gas workers for a career in renewable energy.
The pandemic recession has reduced US energy demand, roiling budgets in states that are major fossil fuel producers. But politics and culture can impede efforts to look beyond oil, gas and coal.
Contrary to the Morrison government’s claims, it does prop up the fossil fuel industry. But the money doesn’t create many jobs or much profit.
While it’s impossible to stop all extraction of fossil fuels now, renewable sources are already generating 25% of global electricity demand now and their contribution continues to grow.
How Zambian farmers won the right to pursue claims in UK courts – and why UK polluters should be worried
Our environmental laws work in the favour of mining interests – even when the industry itself claims otherwise.
As the effects of climate change become clearer and more ominous, fossil fuel companies face a choice: Defy warnings of catastrophic climate change, or envision their roles in a post-carbon world.
The Saudi government’s oil firm is set to become the world’s biggest public company, but investors are already betting against its long-term prospects.
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.
The US President pledged ambitious growth in the fossil fuel industry on his 2016 campaign trail – but new data shows that the green economy was already growing almost three times as fast.
Canada’s first serious attempt, and potentially last opportunity, to implement a national climate strategy hangs in the balance on Oct. 21. The Trudeau government is to blame for its precarity.
The fossil fuel industry plans to compensate for declining demand for gasoline by flooding the world with more plastic.
A good life for workers and a healthy natural environment aren’t mutually exclusive.
The kids are right when it comes to climate change, says an ethicist: adults have a moral and ethical responsibility to take the necessary actions to stop climate change.
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