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By Patrick GALEY | – Paris (AFP) – The five largest publicly listed oil and gas majors have spent $1 billion since the 2015 Paris climate deal on public relations or lobbying that is “overwhelmingly in conflict” with the landmark accord’s goals, a watchdog said Friday. Despite outwardly committing to support the Paris agreement and […]

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How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum

The Conversation

By Harriet Thew | – As part of one of the largest environmental protests ever seen, over a million young people went on strike on Friday March 15 2019, calling for more ambitious action on climate change. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, a Swedish school girl who protested outside the Swedish parliament every Friday throughout 2018, […]

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Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

AFP

Santiago (AFP) – In the space of just two weeks, two large icebergs broke off the Grey Glacier in Chilean Patagonia — a sign of accelerating climate change, experts say. The Grey Glacier is one of the main sights in the Torres del Paine national park popular with tourists and hikers. A giant iceberg the […]

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Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

AFP

By AFP bureaux | – Montreal (AFP) – Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student strike called demonstrations in more than 100 countries. Students flooded into the streets across Europe, North and South America, and Asia carrying placards reading: “There is no planet B”, “You’re […]

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Why Critics of the Green New Deal are Just Plain Wrong

The Conversation

By Kyla Tienhaara | – Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about the (new) Green New Deal. It’s an ambitious plan to make America carbon-neutral — as well as more equitable — in a mere 10 years. Although the Green New Deal resolution that will be voted on in the U.S. Senate is likely to […]

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Ocean Heatwaves already Devastating Marine Life, with Fisheries in Danger

Marlowe Hood

Paris (AFP) – Invisible to people but deadly to marine life, ocean heatwaves have damaged ecosystems across the globe and are poised to become even more destructive, according to the first study to measure worldwide impacts with a single yardstick. The number of marine heatwave days has increased by more than 50 percent since the […]

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Climate Crisis: Glacier Melt, Droughts, Floods require Indo-Pak Cooperation to Avoid Disaster

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By Omair Ahmad | – (The Third Pole) – With glacier retreat, permafrost melt, and extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD’s HIMAP report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price Water in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is going through large and […]

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Could the Climate Crisis End America’s Global Dominion?

Alfred W. McCoy

(Tomdispatch.com) – Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not U.S. global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted that, by 2025, it would be all over for American power, a […]

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Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: Not Implementing it is too Expensive

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Critics dismiss it as a dream. But that’s precisely what it is. It’s visionary. By John Feffer, February 20, 2019. Print Shutterstock It’s become a common trope of the Trump era for columnists and commentators to attack the lunacy of the far right at the same time as castigating the […]