COP23: Is Germany losing its role model status on climate?

It's still not clear when Germany will have a new government. For four weeks now, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), the allied Bavarian...

COP23: Should climate summits always happen in Bonn?

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Highs and lows of the Bonn climate talks – in pictures.

The successes and disappointments this week in Germany, where the world’s nations gathered for the 23rd annual conference of the parties to prevent dangerous...

UN climate talks draw to a close as US holds firm on fossil fuels.

UN negotiations on implementing the Paris climate change agreement wrapped up on Friday after two weeks of talks that were slowed down by the...

'Political watershed' as 19 countries pledge to phase out coal.

Coal New alliance launched at Bonn climate talks hopes to signal the end of the dirtiest fossil fuel that kills 800,000 people a year with...

Why I disrupted Trump's fossil fuel agenda at cop23: A young person's first-hand account.

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Keystone XL opponents make last-gasp effort in Nebraska.

LINCOLN, Nebraska/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opponents of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline have launched a last-minute public relations blitz before Nebraska regulators weigh in on its...

Dakota Access pipeline company paid mercenaries to build conspiracy lawsuit against environmentalists.

The private security firm TigerSwan, hired by Energy Transfer Partners to protect the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, was paid to gather information for what...

At stake in Arctic Wildlife Refuge drilling vote: Money, wilderness and a way of...

A Senate committee voted Wednesday to advance a plan that would allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the country's...

Industrial Strength: How the U.S. government hid the risks of fracking.

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