The evidence mounted all year. All-time temperature records were broken in France, Germany and elsewhere; the Greenland ice sheet experienced exceptional melting; and, as 2019 came to a close, broiling temperatures contributed to devastating wildfires that continue in Australia.
Now European scient...
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WASHINGTON» The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 year...
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ORLEANS, MASS.»The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, among the rarest and most endangered of the seven species of sea turtles, was found motionless shortly after high tide on Cape Cod’s Skaket Beac...
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A national oil and gas trade group is kicking off a campaign to tell the industry’s story in face of concerns about climate change and proposed fracking bans, and the CEO says Colorado is part of his ...
U.S. Emissions Dropped in 2019:
By Nicholas Kusnetz
JAN 7, 2020
Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States dropped last year after a sharp increase in 2018, new data released Tuesday show. The drop resumed a long-term downward trend driven chiefly by a shift away from coal power generati...
By Sierra Club Environmental Law Program. Gaslight Edition Trump Watch re Environmental Rollbacks and Actions
White house officials suppress State Dept testimony that human caused climate change will be "possibly catastrophic"
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says that "most of t...
By Nicholas Kusnetz is a reporter for InsideClimate News.
The findings of the study, published Tuesday, support those from other recent studies that found the world is continuing to rely on fossil fuels—including coal—to meet growing energy demand, even as renewable energy sees soaring g...
The year 2019 was the hottest on record for Australia with the temperature reaching 1.52C above the long-term average, data from the Bureau of Meteorology confirms.
The year that delivered crippling drought, heatwaves, temperature records and devastating bushfires was 0.19C hotter than 2013, the pr...
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IWAKI, JAPAN»The overpowering earthquake and tsunami that ripped through northern Japan in March 2011 took so much from Tatsuo Niitsuma, a commercial fisherman in this coastal c...
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WASHINGTON» Nuclear industry hopes of one day bringing small, factory-built nuclear power plants to communities and industrial sites have cleared a first regulatory hurdle with the Trump administration, over objec...
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TOKYO» Japan on Friday revised a roadmap for the cleanup of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools ...
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“WAR ON PLASTICS”
A public hearing on the proposal is slated for Dec. 16 By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Denver’s proposed fee for single-use bags is just the beginning of what City Council President Jolon Clark envisions as a “war on pla...
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RENEWABLE ENERGY LOSING OUT By Christina Larson
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON»As world leaders gathered in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight fell on China — the top emitter of greenhouse gases.
China burn...
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Time magazine said teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is being honored for work that transcends backgrounds and borders.
Time, via The Associated Press
MADRID » Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was surprised and...
The world’s oceans are gasping for breath, a report issued Saturday at the annual global climate talks in Madrid has concluded.
The report represents the combined efforts of 67 scientists from 17 countries and was released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It found that oxygen ...
By Emily Guskin, Scott Clement and Joel Achenbach
Dec. 9, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. MST
Americans remain shaky on the details of climate science even as they have grown increasingly concerned about human activity warming the Earth, according to a national poll by The Washington Post a...
From Participant (Spotlight), DARK WATERS tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemica...
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The Associated Press
SWANSBORO, N.C.»Historic cities and towns along the Southeastern U.S. coast have survived wars, hurricanes, disease outbreaks and other calamities, but now that sea levels are creeping up with no ...
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The Associated Press
FLAMINGO, FLA.»
Grabbing a clump of vegetation to steady herself, Tiffany Troxler gingerly slides her feet along the makeshift boardwalk as she ventures out into the marsh. The boards sag, dipping her up...
On November 29th and December 6th, young people across the country will join a national #ClimateStrike to continue the incredible momentum we saw this September.
With the consequences of climate change becoming more clear and dire with each passing day, a new powerful wave of the climate move...
