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It is more than ten years since Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the masses. At its heart, it showed the...

EU said to be considering electric car quota, despite denials

Despite public denials, the European commission is considering implementing an electric car quota to be achieved by automakers by 2030, according to diplomats and sources familiar with...

Australian government can’t be trusted with Great Barrier Reef, says parliament

Australia’s parliament has passed a bill admonishing the government for failing to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. In a rare event in Australia’s ultra-partisan parliament,...

Countries urged to start bargaining over negative emissions

Countries need to start negotiating who will take responsibility for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, two scientists argued in Nature Climate Change on...

Humans massively increased odds of three consecutive hottest years

Each of the last three years has seen record temperatures worldwide, further evidence that climate warms the Earth, not mere chance. Each has been...

What will become of Bangladesh’s climate migrants?

Published on 14/08/2017, 10:51amBy Megan Darby in Khulna When Cyclone Aila hit the coast of Bangladesh in May 2009, water swelled over embankments along the...

Trump lays groundwork for staying in the Paris agreement

After a week during which the Trump White House spent daring a nuclear-armed Pyongyang to strike, the future of civilisation feels like an even more immediate concern...

Climate Weekly: the Trump delusion

After months of chaos and uncertainty in the US state department, the first glimmers of a climate diplomacy strategy appeared this week. A leaked note from...

Trump EPA loses court battle to cut air con pollutants

One of the few climate policies Donald Trump’s administration wanted to retain is in doubt, after French and Mexican companies successfully sued the Environmental...

Mattlan Zackhras, Marshall Islands climate leader, dies aged 47

Mattlan Zackhras, a leading Marshall Islands climate advocate, died aged 47 of heart failure at a hospital in Taiwan on Tuesday. As minister-in-assistance to president...

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