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15 09 2020 | 10:00

Global heating motivated American mastodons to trek north.

Shift led to local extinctions and could have important implications for species today. Genetic diversity could shrink as animals venture into new territories because of global heating leaving them…

15 09 2020 | 09:45

This Is Inequity at the Boiling Point.

It was a record 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Baghdad in July, and 100 degrees above the Arctic Circle this June. Australia shattered its summer heat records as wildfires, fueled by prolonged drought,…

15 09 2020 | 09:38

‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary.

The Michael Moore-produced ‘Planet of the Humans’ faced a coordinated suppression campaign led by professional climate activists backed by the same ‘green’ billionaires, Wall Street investors,…

15 09 2020 | 09:34

What has four years of Donald Trump meant for the climate crisis?

Guardian US reporter Emily Holden looks at the Trump administration’s impact on the environment, and the consequences if he wins another term.

11 09 2020 | 11:14

Even Climate Scientists Are Freaked Out By This Year’s Wildfires.

"We have not reached the peak. In fact, no one knows where the peak is,” one expert said. Across large parts of California, daylight never arrived on Sept. 9. Caught under a vast sheet of smoke…

10 09 2020 | 10:57

Bloomberg: It’s a Race Against Heat, and Humanity Is Losing.

Add this to your already long list of 2020 oddities: Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to experience their steepest drop in modern history while the world remains on track to mark its second-…

09 09 2020 | 11:18

Jane Fonda: ‘If Greta Thunberg can do it, so can I’.

In an exclusive extract from her new book, the actor recalls the beginnings of her climate crisis protests outside the White House. uring Labor Day weekend in 2019, I was in Big Sur with my pals…

08 09 2020 | 11:57

Climate breakdown 'intensifies gender-based violence’.

'We believe in including women in the creation of policies and strategies around environmental protection including disaster response.' Global warming isn’t simply going to destroy our communities…

08 09 2020 | 11:44

Energy storage “Lego blocks” offer missing piece to 100 per cent renewable grid.

As climate change worsens, the future of fossil fuel jobs and infrastructure is uncertain. But a new energy storage technology invented in Australia could enable coal-fired power stations to run…

08 09 2020 | 11:29

Zombie wildfires are blazing through the Arctic, causing record burning.

The Arctic wildfire season has been the worst since record-keeping began. "Zombie" wildfires that were smoldering beneath the Arctic ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow…

07 09 2020 | 22:14

Can COVID-19 give new wind to renewable energy?

Kicking the fossil-fuel ha­bit completely was hard for AC Energy, the energy arm of Philippine industry giant Ayala Corp., to do overnight even if it had been investing in renewable energy (RE) in…

07 09 2020 | 11:07

China’s costly, dirty and woeful expansion in coal generation.

China’s thermal electricity consumption continues to grow and China continues to invest heavily in new coal generation, even as it also pursues wind, solar and electric vehicles. A bit like…

07 09 2020 | 11:05

Is Capitalism to Blame for Covid-19?

We’re often told that some global challenges are simply too complex for the human mind to understand. This is supposed to explain not only inaction when it comes to the climate crisis, but – as with…

07 09 2020 | 10:58

Power to the people: why clean energy must give more Australians a slice of the pie.

Australians are far more welcoming of change than we expect, and are furious at having been shut out of being direct participants. In August 2015, I spent a cold night at the old TAB Royal Hotel in…

07 09 2020 | 10:55

How SUVs conquered the world – at the expense of its climate.

Exclusive new emissions analysis shows how much more dangerous for the climate SUVs are than smaller vehicles, and how embedded they have become in our lives. They are the hulking cars that have…

07 09 2020 | 10:50

No 10 and the secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy.

Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions – into the prime minister’s office. To accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must…

07 09 2020 | 10:49

Trump Admin Proposes 'Vicious' Plan for Fossil Fuel Lease Sales in California Amid Historic Wildfires.

Especially given the climate-fueled wildfires ravaging the region, conservationists sounded alarm Thursday in response to a Trump administration proposal for an oil and gas lease sale in California,…

07 09 2020 | 10:45

Murray-Darling mismanagement: floods, water theft, and Burke and Wills’s camels.

The basin has faced challenges throughout history but the system designed to protect it does not factor in a changing climate