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Comment: Climate Science Deniers Throw Stones at Climate Chief from Their Greenhouse
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Newly Elected DR Congo Government Urged to End Oil Company’s Contract to Drill in...
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Lancaster is the Latest UK City to Declare a Climate Emergency
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Lord Donoughue: New Chair of Climate Science Denying Group Has Vested Interests in Fossil...
Read time: 2 minsThe new chairman of the UK’s principal climate science denier campaign group holds investments in a number of fossil fuel companies,...
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Read time: 6 minsNearly a decade after being held responsible for the largest marine oil spill in history, BP’s first global advertising campaign in...
Study: Scrap Fossil Fuel Hardware Right Now to Avert Catastrophic Climate Change
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British scientists have worked out how to make sure of a better-than-even chance that 195 nations...
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