EXXONMOBIL: NEW DISCLOSURES SHOW OIL GIANT STILL FUNDING CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIAL GROUPS..
Protestors make their views clear on ExxonMobil's record on climate change. at a shareholder meeting on May 2016. Flickr/350.org
ExxonMobil and the climate science denial machinery that it has helped to build over the years are now under more scrutiny than ever before...
Read moreNYE DON’T LIE: BILL NYE STILL HAS TO TAKE CLIMATE DENIERS TO TASK, WE GUESS...
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In his tireless quest to take down climate deniers, one by one, Bill Nye has just released a video picking apart climate change conspiracy theories...
Read moreSTEYER: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DRIVE VOTER TURNOUT...
PHILADELPHIA -- Billionaire climate advocate Tom Steyer believes young Americans will cast more votes this year based on rising temperatures than in past presidential elections...
Read moreTHE FIGHT OVER FRACKING HEATS UP...
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As the Democratic National Convention gets under way in Philadelphia, activists across the country are pushing for bans on oil and gas extraction...
Read moreOVER ONE MILLION PEOPLE HIT AS FLOODS WORSEN IN INDIA'S TEA REGION OF ASSAM...
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 1.2 million people in northeast India have been hit by floods which have submerged hundreds of villages, inundated large swathes of farmland and damaged roads, bridges and telecommunications services, local authorities said on Tuesday...
Read moreNEW YORK TIMES SHILLS FOR MORIBUND NUCLEAR POWER, DISSES RENEWABLES REVOLUTION...
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Why does The New York Times keep pushing nuclear power, whose prices keep rising even as demand has collapsed in every market economy? And why do they keep dissing renewables, whose prices have dropped precipitously while demand has grown beyond expectation here and around the world?
Read moreCRISIS ON HIGH...
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At the top of the world a climate disaster is unfolding that will impact the lives of more than 1 billion people...
Read moreTHE LINK BETWEEN ARMED CONFLICT AND CLIMATE CHANGE JUST GOT A BIT STRONGER...
Army soldiers march during the 10th anniversary ceremony of the 1997 Japan Embassy hostage liberation in Lima, Sunday, April 22, 2007. In a violent end to a four-month hostage crisis, Peruvian forces stormed the Japanese ambassador's mansion in Lima on April 22,1997 freeing 72 captives of the rebel group Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, one of two major rebel groups that operated in Peru for some two decades. CREDIT: AP Photo/Karel Navarro
As human-caused climate change brings a rise in extreme weather events, scientists have now increasingly looked into the climate as another significant driver of conflict...
Read moreGET USED TO THESE EXTREME SUMMER HEAT WAVES...
Unless we act fast to curb climate change, scorching heat will become commonplace, scientists say...
Read moreKAINE CREATED CLIMATE COMMISSION AND WELCOMED COAL AS VA. GOVERNOR...
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BERNIE WAS RIGHT! CLIMATE CHANGE INCREASES THE RISK OF WAR, SCIENTISTS PROVE...
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The heatwaves, droughts and other natural disasters expected to increase because of global warming are helping to push countries into armed conflict, particularly those already split along ethnic lines...
Read moreCHINA'S COAL PEAK HAILED AS TURNING POINT IN CLIMATE CHANGE BATTLE...
Beijing, China. The country’s coal consumption peaked in 2014 and began falling in what economists call a permanent trend. Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images
Study by economists say achievement by world’s biggest polluter may be a significant milestone, rather than a blip...
Read moreWHY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THE ENERGY INDUSTRY ARE STARTING TO SQUABBLE...
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Much of it comes down to methane...
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FRACK ATTACK: CLIMATE ACTIVISTS MAKE NOISE IN PHILLY AHEAD OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION...
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PHILADELPHIA — While the Democratic Party was prepping its convention hall on Sunday, environmental activists tried to draw attention to the streets and their ongoing war against fossil fuel extraction...
Read moreTHE FLOOD NEXT TIME: WARMING RAISES THE RISK OF DISASTER...
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People in West Virginia are still recovering from floods that tore through communities like vengeful gods...
Read moreCAN CHEMISTS TURN POLLUTION INTO GOLD?
Carbon dioxide is a stable molecule, and doesn't store much energy in its chemical bonds. To use it, chemists have to add energy, often through heating, which usually requires electricity. Much of that comes from power plants that burn coal or natural gas—emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, even more than was captured. Credit: Zirafek/Thinkstock (MARS)
Scientists are trying to convert carbon dioxide emissions into something of value—without using too much energy...
Read moreMASSIVE FLOODS IN CHINA KILL AT LEAST 154 PEOPLE, MORE THAN 120 OTHERS MISSING...
This Wednesday, July, 20, 2016 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, shows village houses and field partially submerged by flood waters in Gaoyang Town, Shayang County. (Xiao Yijiu/AP)
BEIJING — Torrential rains that have swept through China have killed at least 154 people and left 124 missing, officials said Saturday, with most of the casualties reported from a northern province where villagers complained about lack of warning before a deadly flash flood...
Read moreNEW YORK CITY, L.A. AND CHICAGO ARE ALL UNDER HEAT ADVISORIES, PLUS 23 STATES IN BETWEEN...
Add your reaction ShareTURNING TRASH INTO GAS MAY FINALLY BE A THING!
Gasification. (Illustration: Marc Fusco)
People have been trying for decades to eliminate landfills and fight climate change by vaporizing garbage—with disappointing results. But that could be changing...
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