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Chile warns of 3-hour commutes, split venue at December climate talks
This year's UN summit comes at a "highly congested" period in Santiago, the hosts say, but a plea to move it to January was...
Seasoned Irish climate campaigners ‘spurred on’ by climate strikes
March 15th, 2019
Today, over 1,750 climate strikes will take place in some 110-odd countries – Ireland included – inspired by actions of one 16-year-old...
UK Conservative politicians back ‘inspirational’ school climate strikers
Public opinion and government ministers back young people skipping school to protest climate inaction, in contrast to the prime minister's early scepticism
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New research, March 4-10, 2019
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. This post has separate sections for: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change...
NASA’s Greenland mission still surprises in year four
Only seven months after NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission wrapped its last field campaign on the world's largest island, an OMG crew is...
The Carbon Brief Profile: India
In the fifth article of a series explaining how large emitters are positioned to tackle climate change, Carbon Brief sets out India’s key policy...
Seedsavers aim to bring diversity back to our soil
March 14th, 2019
All
next week small-scale seed producers across Ireland and the UK will be
celebrating Seed Week to raise
awareness of the benefits of buying locally...
US and Saudi Arabia block geoengineering governance push
Countries failed to agree on a Swiss resolution to consider regulating technologies that aim to cool the planet, at the UN Environment Assembly in...
Greens question Left’s opposition to carbon tax hike
March 14th, 2019
The Green Party has questioned the opposition of Sinn Fein and People Before Profit to the proposed carbon tax plan in a...
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Named for 'el diablo' himself, a new and extremely rare orchid species reveals a wicked heart.
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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In our efforts to save animals at risk of extinction, we've saved some extraordinary places as well.
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