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Despite Public Targets, Most Countries Are Not Reducing Fossil Fuel Productions
A new report shows that the world’s governments, despite the targets they set for themselves in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, are failing to sufficiently reduce fuel production and consumption.
By WhoWhatWhy Staff, WhoWhatWhy
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The Net-Zero Challenge: Carbon Offsets Need to Stop
Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuel emissions.
By Mark Schapiro, Capital & Main
Fossil fuel companies are no longer denying the realities of climate change — which many of them reported on privately!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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5 Foods You Eat Everyday Could Disappear Because Of Climate Change, From Coffee To Potatoes
Climate events will not just be felt through more frequent natural disasters and extreme temperatures, but they will soon have a daily impact on our lives in the way of food.
Believe it or not, we may no longer be able to enjoy many of!-->!-->!-->…
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10 Ways That War Impacts On Wildlife And Essential EcoSystems
By John. R. Platt
As war and conflicts rage on in Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, Libya and other places around the globe, it’s important to look at the long-term effects of military strife, which can destroy the environment as easily as!-->!-->!-->…
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12 Environmental Novels for Your Summer Reading List
Check out these new environmental novels that help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.
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31 Must-Watch Climate Change Documentaries
Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Green Queen has put together this list of must-watch climate change documentaries.
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Chilli Peppers, Coffee, Wine: How the Climate Crisis is Causing Food Shortages
By: Victoria Namkung
Blistering heat, stronger storms, droughts, floods and fires are putting food production at risk.
Sriracha fans are a passionate bunch. They have been known to get tattoos of the popular hot sauce on!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Restoring These 9 Wild Animals Population Could Sequester Enough CO2 To Meet The Paris Goals
Gray wolves, elephants, wildebeests, and sea otters are a few of the species that can help keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C.
By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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10 Things You Need To Know About The 2023 IPCC Climate Report
The latest IPCC report is out and the findings are distressing and we highlight the ten most important ones you need to know.
It’s been a big week for the climate emergency. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the!-->!-->!-->…
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How to Stop the Spread of Climate Disinformation
Governments should make companies alter the algorithms that amplify climate falsehoods.
By Erica Sieber and Michael Khoo
The next time you use Twitter, search for “climate.” What do you expect to see as the top result? Content about!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Should We Name Heat Waves Like We Name Hurricanes?
By: Jeff Barardelli
If asked to recall a hurricane, odds are you'd immediately invoke memorable names like Sandy, Katrina or Harvey. You'd probably even remember something specific about the impact of the storm. But if asked to recall!-->!-->!-->…
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17 Young People On The Moment The Climate Crisis Became Real To Them
By: Mary Retta
Watching An Inconvenient Truth in your middle-school science class. Hearing Greta Thunberg’s calls to join weekly school strikes. Driving away from smouldering wildfires engulfing dry California hillsides.
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Meat, Monopolies, Mega Farms: How the US Food System Fuels the Climate Crisis
By: Amanda Schupak
From a beef-heavy diet to growing crops that don’t feed people – the biggest challenges facing the agriculture industry.
Food and the climate crisis are locked in a tangled web of cause and effect. Globally, food!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Big Oil Lied To Us: The Takeaway From An Explosive New Docuseries
By Chris McGreal.
There is a moment in the revelatory PBS Frontline docuseries The Power of Big Oil, about the industry’s long campaign to stall action on the climate crisis, in which the former Republican senator Chuck Hagel!-->!-->!-->…
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Bioacoustics: Listening To Nature Is Our Only Option To Solve The Climate Crisis
As current climate conversations overwhelmingly lack both heart and accessibility, Joycelyn Longdon, an environmental PhD student at Cambridge, tackles the subject from an education and action-focused perspective – not for aimless!-->…
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The History Of Earth Day: From Radical Roots To Elementary School Classrooms
By: Molly Taft
If you ask Adam Rome, Earth Day isn’t as punk as it used to be.
“Earth Day is so tame nowadays,” says Rome, the author of The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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US Congressman Jamie Raskin: Only Democracy Can Save Our Species
By Ankito Rao.
Progressive congressman from Maryland believes that no other crisis, even the existential threat of the changing climate, can be solved without first protecting the fabric of American democracy
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Climate Scientists Are Getting Arrested For Trying To Spread Their Message
By Peter Kalmus.
On Wednesday, I was arrested for locking myself onto an entrance to the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown LA. I can’t stand by – and nor should you.
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Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies
The oil and gas industry uses universities to influence environmental policy. Here’s how we fight back.
By Ilana Cohen and Jake Lowe
As student organizers, we’ve seen the power of divestment come to bear by helping secure historic!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Major Climate Research Publisher Found To Be Supporting Oil And Gas Drilling
By Amy Westervelt
Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian!-->!-->!-->…
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Climate Migrants Might Be The Answer To A Clean Economy
By Alex Robinson.
The coral atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati is a 29-kilometre-long triangle of white sandy beaches in the central Pacific Ocean. But it isn’t paradise for many residents, who are on the front lines of the climate crisis.
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