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Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg turns 18
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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