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Big Oil BP Pledges Net Zero By 2050 But No Plans To End Fossil Fuels
Multinational oil giant BP has just said they will try to cancel out all its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – all the while continuing to pump out fossil fuels. In an announcement by new CEO Bernard Looney, the corporation shared they!-->…
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Is Your Favorite News Source Shilling for Big Oil?
By: Amy Westervelt
Some media companies are creating, not just running, misleading climate ads.
Chevron has been all over social media recently with an advertising campaign that asks consumers to test how much they know!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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5 Ways The Climate Emergency Is Affecting Investment
The world is waking up to the urgent need to take combat the biggest planetary threat of today, thanks to the sustained visibility about environmental issues and calls to action from campaigners, scientists and youth strikers. As world!-->…
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Fossil Fuel Air Pollution Costs The World US$8 Billion Every Day
Greenpeace has just released their new report on global air pollution, which finds that burning fossil fuels is responsible for an estimated 4.5 million deaths and economic losses of US$2.9 trillion annually – equivalent to US$8 billion!-->…
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Indonesia Pushes Environmental Deregulation After Deadly Floods & Deforestation
The administration of President Joko Widodo in Indonesia is currently pushing a slate of environmental deregulation policies through proposing over 1,200 amendments to 80 existing laws in parliament. While the government claims that these!-->…
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Joaquin Phoenix Slams Climate, Animal & Human Injustices In Viral Oscar Speech
As Joaquin Phoenix accepted the Academy award for best actor for the 2019 film Joker at the Oscars ceremony, he addressed the crowd with a winning speech that placed a much-needed spotlight on global inequalities. While there is no doubt!-->…
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Hottest Ever: Antarctica Temperature Same As Hong Kong As Climate Crisis Intensifies
Antarctica has just logged the hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3 degrees celsius, beating the previous record by 0.8 celsius in March 2015. The speed at which temperatures are climbing in the south frigid zone is a!-->…
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Scientists: Overlapping Climate Disasters Will Trigger Global Collapse
Over 200 of the world’s leading scientists warned on Wednesday that it is looking increasingly likely that the world will face a number of overlapping climate-induced crises, which would tip the planet into a “global systemic collapse”.!-->…
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Women In The Boardroom: How Gender Inequality Is As Pervasive In Food Tech As All Tech
Unfortunately, new (and old) research is pointing to the fact that even in the most progressive industries of today - such as the booming food-tech sector working on sustainable solutions for global food insecurity - companies are still!-->…
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Japan To Build 22 New Coal Power Plants, Blatantly Ignoring Climate Risk
Perhaps one of the most damaging consequences a decade after the haunting Fukushima nuclear disaster forced Japan to close all but one of their nuclear power programs, the country is now planning to build up to 22 new coal-burning!-->…
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What Brexit Means For Organic Food & Sustainable Agriculture
After three tumultuous years in British politics, Britain has officially passed the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and ended nearly half a century of close ties with Europe on the January 31 2020. This begins the implementation phase of leaving!-->…
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Climate Denial Exists Because Humans Are Hard-Wired To Reject Facts They Don’t Like
In a recent article published in The Conversation by Adrian Bardon, a professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, the reason behind continued denial about globally scientifically-backed phenomena such as the climate crisis is!-->…
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World’s Cheapest Option Is To Fight The Climate Crisis, Study Finds
While world and business leaders continue to quarrel over the hefty costs of climate action–taking into account climate risks, implementing climate mitigation and putting in place climate resilient policies–a new study shows that!-->…
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Australia’s Marine Animals Will Be The Fires’ Unseen Victims
Ash and silt will choke underwater ecosystems.
By: Doug Johnson
As wildfires ravage Australia’s land and forests, so far killing an estimated one billion terrestrial animals, researchers worry marine and freshwater species will!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Warning: Climate Change Will Bring Major New Health Risks For Kids
By: Kathleen E. Bachynski
As we enter a new decade, headlines from across the world make all too clear that the effects of climate change are not just looming. They’re here, they’re now, and they’re devastating communities on every!-->!-->!-->…
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Vegan Oscars? Major Awards Party Announces 70% Plant-Based Menu
In an announcement, the Academy of Motion Arts & Picture Sciences said that the food that will be served prior to the Oscars ceremony and at the afterparty held on the 9th February this year will be 70% plant-based. However, unlike the!-->…
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Carbon Bank Buildings? How Engineered Timber Could Make Our Cities Absorb CO2
According to a new study by researchers from Yale University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wood-based engineered materials could help slash the carbon emissions in the air. Rather than using carbon-intensive!-->…
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SolarSoundSystem Will Plant A Tree For Every Purchase Of New Record
SolarSoundSystem, the makers of the solar and human kinetic energy powered sound system who are on a mission to fight climate change, is releasing a compilation record on 14th February this year to mark its 20th anniversary. Named “Solar!-->…
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Climate Crisis Will Lead To Wine Shortage: 56% Loss of Vineyard Loss A Possibility
Attention, wine lovers! The climate crisis will not only be bringing more extreme weather events and disasters, but scientists are now warning that it will be bringing about a shortage of wine in the near future. We are already well on the!-->…
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China Implements Temporary Wild Animal Trade Ban Due To Coronavirus, Activists Push To Make It Permanent
On Sunday, China ordered a temporary ban on the trade of wild animals in an attempt to contain the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, which is believed to have originated in a market that sold wild animals as food. The new law will prohibit!-->…
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Corporate-Backed Sustainable Media: Can Bloomberg Green Bring Climate Culprits To Task?
The Manhattan-headquartered global business and market news and data analysis company Bloomberg has just announced the launch of Bloomberg Green, the firm’s editorial brand dedicated to climate change news. While the move to debut a!-->…
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