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Scientists Say Only 10 Years Left to Save the Planet

Scientists Say Only 10 Years Left to Save the Planet

The planet, as we know it, has been given a deadline: 10 years. According to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, if humans don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically and maintain carbon sinks, like forests, then the results will be catastrophic for the climate. But the researchers have developed a model that they believe […]

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    3 Reasons the Mail on Sunday’s Climate Claims Are Bogus

    3 Reasons the Mail on Sunday’s Climate Claims Are Bogus

    By Kelly Levin and Rhys Gerholdt The climate denier engine is revving up again. Last weekend an article in the Mail on Sunday attempted to cast doubt on the strength of climate science. It’s now been taken up by the U.S. House Science Committee, which has been prone to promoting more climate denial than sound […]

    Trump vs. the Paris Climate Agreement

    Trump vs. the Paris Climate Agreement

    [Editor’s note: The New York Times reports that the Trump Administration is preparing executive orders that would have far sweeping consequences for the United Nations and multilateral treaties. According to their sources, the order will call for “at least a 40 percent decrease” in U.S. funds to the United Nations, while another calls for a […]

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With Paris Climate Goals

    New research released Thursday reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders. “Trudeau’s pipeline decisions will lead directly to suffering, displacement and even death for vulnerable people around the world due to impacts of a warming world,” said […]

    Ticking Carbon Clock: We Have One Year to Avert Climate Catastrophe

    Ticking Carbon Clock: We Have One Year to Avert Climate Catastrophe

    By Nika Knight Our window of time to act on climate may be shrinking even faster than previously thought. We may only have one year remaining before we lock in 1.5 C of warming—the ideal goal outlined in the Paris climate agreement—after which we’ll see catastrophic and irreversible climate shifts, many experts have warned. That’s […]

    Here’s What You Need to Know on the Upcoming War on Our Health and Environment

    Here’s What You Need to Know on the Upcoming War on Our Health and Environment

    Before Inauguration Day, the Trump era has opened with an extremist agenda that poses an alarming threat to our people, our environment and the core values we share about justice, fair play and our commitment to leave future generations a livable world. Already, we’ve seen a set of cabinet nominees dominated by fossil fuel advocates, […]

    Can Elon Musk Influence Trump to Take Climate Action?

    Can Elon Musk Influence Trump to Take Climate Action?

    Even though Elon Musk once said that Donald Trump “doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States,” the Tesla/SpaceX CEO is joining the president-elect’s Strategic and Policy Forum, an advisory board for the president on business issues. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi were also […]

    Methane Emissions Soar, Agriculture Likely to Blame

    Methane Emissions Soar, Agriculture Likely to Blame

    By Alex Kirby One year ago today, with huge relief, scarcely able to believe their achievement, world leaders finally agreed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. But a bare 12 months later comes sobering news: Atmospheric concentrations of another gas, methane, are growing faster than at any time in the last 20 years, putting further […]

    Institutions Representing $5 Trillion Pledge to Divest From Fossil Fuels

    Institutions Representing $5 Trillion Pledge to Divest From Fossil Fuels

    The scope of global fossil fuel divestment has doubled over the past 15 months, with institutions and individuals controlling $5.197 trillion in assets pledging to divest. The announcement comes on the first anniversary of the Paris agreement on climate change. “One year after the adoption of the historic Paris climate agreement, it’s clear the transition […]