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Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg turns 18
STOCKHOLM (REUTERS) – Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, who pioneered a global climate change campaign as a 15-year-old, turned 18 on Sunday (Jan 3) and promised to…
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Denmark's climate minister explains why 2020 has left him optimistic
COPENHAGEN (BLOOMBERG) – The author of one of the most ambitious climate plans in the European Union says 2020 was a turning point that has…
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Climate Change Legislation Included in Coronavirus Relief Deal
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators inserted a bipartisan measure to curtail planet-warming chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators in the huge government spending and coronavirus relief…
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As cities boom, Oslo tests greener 'zero-emissions' building sites
OSLO (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) – A nearly “zero-emissions” building site in Oslo, using electric machinery, could be a pioneer for greener construction as the world’s…
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Countries must declare climate emergency: UN chief
LONDON (AFP) – UN chief Antonio Guterres called on governments Saturday (Dec 12) to declare a “state of climate emergency” and make good on their…
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Shift to a Not-So-Frozen North Is Well Underway, Scientists Warn
The Arctic continued its unwavering shift toward a new climate in 2020, as the effects of near-record warming surged across the region, shrinking ice and…
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Young climate activists adapt to Covid-19 pandemic world
PARIS (AFP) – Forced off the streets by the coronavirus pandemic and alarmed by delays to crucial UN climate talks, young activists have had to…
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PARIS (AFP) – Forced off the streets by the coronavirus pandemic and alarmed by delays to crucial UN climate talks, young activists have had to…
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Last month the hottest November on record: EU
PARIS (AFP) – Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite…
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Meet Biden’s Energy and Climate Cabinet Contenders
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s environment and energy team — facing a narrowly divided Congress and a hostile Republican leadership — will need…
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2020 one of three hottest years ever recorded: UN
GENEVA (AFP) – This year is on course to be one of the three warmest ever recorded and could even top the record set in…
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Climate change – the quest for global leadership
Wuhai, a tiny city of just over half a million people in Inner Mongolia, is coal country. Growing up there, Dr Yang Yingxia remembers the…
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Letter from Bangalore: Mini-forests take root amid Indian city's concrete jungle
BANGALORE – Returning to my home town, Bangalore, in 2013 after years away, I took to reading the city pages of the newspaper like I was…
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