CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH TO DESCEND ON WASHINGTON IN APRIL...

Organizers hope the next People's Climate March in Washington rivals the turnout of the one in New York in 2014, when more than 400,000 people rallied for climate action. Credit: Getty Images

 

The next People's Climate March is being organized to protest President Trump's agenda of attacking climate action and promoting fossil fuel development...

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BACKS OFF PLAN TO SCRUB CLIMATE PAGES FROM EPA WEBSITE...

 Video: Donald Trump will enter the White House with an environmental policy agenda opposed to that of the Obama administration and many other nations that have pledged support to the Paris climate agreement. The Washington Post's Chris Mooney breaks down what a Donald Trump presidency will mean when it comes to climate change. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post)

 

President Donald Trump delivers remarks in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 25. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

 

The Trump administration on Wednesday backed away from plans to take down some climate-change information from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which employees said had been planned for this week. But political appointees are exerting more oversight over the agency’s scientific communications...

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ESSAY: METEOROLOGISTS AND THE SACRED POSITION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND SCIENCE...

College of DuPage Meteorology Program, Credit: COD Newsroom/flickr

 

Whether doctor or meteorologist, when we fail to look at the systemic causes of the immediate problems in front of us, we are guilty of malpractice...

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THE SUNDAY SHOWS IGNORED THIS CALAMITOUS GLOBAL WARMING REPORT, BUT ‘SNL’ DIDN’T...

 

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Debates about inaugural crowd size drowned out more weighty matters...

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SEA LEVEL RISE ESTIMATE GROWS ALARMINGLY HIGHER IN LATEST FEDERAL REPORT...

Places like Robbins, Md., already struggling with sea level rise, could see even more flooding under new federal projections. Credit: Getty Images

 

NOAA's latest report arrives, predicting worst-case scenario of 8 feet of rise by century's end, just as Donald Trump takes office with pro-fossil fuel policies...

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EUROPE FACES DROUGHTS, FLOODS AND STORMS AS CLIMATE CHANGE ACCELERATES...

The dry Var riverbed in Carros, southern France, September 2016. Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPA

 

Europe and northern hemisphere are warming at faster pace than the global average and ‘multiple climatic hazards’ are expected, says study...

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TRUMP NOMINEE PLEDGES TO SHIELD NOAA CLIMATE SCIENTISTS FROM INTIMIDATION, CENSORSHIP...

People hold signs as they listen to a group of scientists speak during a rally on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in San Francisco. Image: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

 

SEATTLE — Climate scientists throughout the federal government are fearing an onslaught of budget cuts and censorship policies from the President Donald Trump administration, with sweeping changes expected governing how climate science is funded and communicated to the public...

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TELLS EPA TO CUT CLIMATE PAGE FROM WEBSITE: SOURCES...

Children play amid icebergs on the beach in Nuuk, Greenland, June 5, 2016. REUTERS/Alister Doyle

 

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives...

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COMIN' IN HOT...

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NOTE: Last week, we said farewell from TakePart. Now we're saying hello from Participant Media. Though we look a little different, we still want to connect you to the news and information that's important to you.

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WE ARE DESTROYING RAINFORESTS SO QUICKLY THEY MAY BE GONE IN 100 YEARS...

Likouala-aux-Herbes river near in Congo-Brazzaville. The Congo Basin is the world’s second largest tropical forest. Photograph: Hope Productions/Yann Arthus Bertrand / Getty Images/Getty Images

 

At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them...

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POLITICAL SUPPRESSION OF SCIENCE: LESSONS FROM CANADA...

The politicization of science can involve funding cutbacks or restriction on research topics, but also the deliberate elimination of existing data. Photo by DWImages/Alamy Stock Photo

 

Canadian scientists are lending support to worried American peers...

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WE’RE NOW BREAKING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORDS ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS...

February 2016 was the warmest February in 136 years of Nasa’s modern temperature records. Global temperature records were broken throughout 2016. Photograph: GISS/NASA

 

Denial and “alternative facts” haven’t stopped the Earth from warming to record-shattering levels...

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CDC QUIETLY CANCELS LONG-PLANNED CLIMATE SUMMIT...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled a summit on climate change and public health. One former CDC director said the agency’s climate change work has reduced mortality rates in Philadelphia, which, as shown in this 2013 photograph, has been coping with unusual heat waves. Photo courtesy of AP Images.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly and abruptly canceled a major climate change summit scheduled for next month shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, according to emails sent to those scheduled to speak and obtained by E&E News...

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TELLS EPA TO FREEZE ALL GRANTS, CONTRACTS...

The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. (Matt McClain/ The Washington Post)

 

The Trump administration has instructed officials at the Environmental Protection Agency to freeze its grants and contracts, a move that could affect everything from state-led climate research to localized efforts to improve air and water quality to environmental justice projects aimed at helping poor communities...

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CLIMATE REGULATIONS UNDER A WATCHFUL INTERNET EYE...

Any time President Trump changes a regulation involving climate or energy, a new website will track it. Credit: Getty Images

 

Bracing for a rollback, website run by Columbia Law School alerts any time President Trump or Congress change a rule involving climate change or energy...

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DONALD TRUMP PLANS TO 'REFORM' THE WAY ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY USES SCIENCE, REPORT CLAIMS...

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The leaked report is an extreme version of the kind of climate plans that the Trump camp has already put forward...

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ONE OF THE LAST OBAMA-ERA CLIMATE REPORTS HAD A TROUBLING UPDATE ABOUT THE RISING SEAS...

The Haulover Marine Center parking lot is flooded Nov. 14, 2016, in North Miami. According to a new report, a little more than a foot of sea-level rise could case a 25-fold increase in the frequency of damaging floods in coastal U.S. cities. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

 

A new report, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the last day of Barack Obama’s presidency, presents a series of updated estimates for future sea-level rise, both in the United States and worldwide. It suggests that, under extreme future climate change, global sea levels could rise by more than eight feet by the end of the century — one of the highest estimates yet to be presented in a federal report... 

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GOVERNMENT 'TRIED TO BURY' ITS OWN ALARMING REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE...

#1 Video: CIA director nominee Mike Pompeo refuses to accept Nasa's findings on climate change...

#2 Video: Climate change: It's "game over" for planet earth...

 

In the report, the Government said high-risk issues that needed to be addressed included the damage expected to be caused by flooding. credit: Getty

 

Exclusive: The five-yearly assessment of what will happen to the UK as the world warms says one of an array of potential threats is the ‘significant risk’ to supplies of food...

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FLOOD DISASTERS MORE THAN DOUBLE ACROSS EUROPE IN 35 YEARS...

Cars swept into a pile by torrential rain in Genoa, Italy Saturday. Photograph: Antonio Calanni/AP

 

Insurance firm research reveals steep increase in flash floods and says rise is in line with climate change...

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AS U.S. CEDES LEADERSHIP ON CLIMATE, OTHERS STEP UP AT DAVOS...

A coal-fired power plant on the outskirts of Beijing. China’s retreat from plans to build dozens of additional plants has raised hopes it is serious about clean energy. Credit Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

 

DAVOS, Switzerland — When the chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas company mapped out a glowing future for fossil fuels at a discussion in Davos this past week, dissent came from an unexpected corner of the room...

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