Covering Climate Now

By: Joseph Opoku Gakpo The world’s poor and marginalized people are suffering the most from climate change impacts, though they contribute the least to the carbon emissions that are driving global warming, according to new research by…
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By: Hope Mafaranga As Uganda develops its e-waste policy, neighboring Rwanda establishes a broad-based plan involving incentives and high-tech facilities. As many countries in Africa embrace the latest technology—smartphones,…
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By: Shashikant Yadav Corporations in India can explore shale gas reserves without obtaining environmental clearances. Oil and gas corporations have been allowed to begin drilling and other hydrocarbon exploration activities in…
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By: Mark Hertsgaard The people have marched, and now it’s time to vote. What follows are not candidate endorsements. Rather, this nonpartisan guide aims to inform voters’ choices, help journalists decide what races to…
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By: Hannah Murphy, with contribution from Andy Kroll What Joe Biden would need to do starting from Day One to correct the course of U.S. climate policy. When he talks about the Trump administration, David Doniger likes to say:…
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By: Mike Ludwig Polling shows that people in the United States are taking climate change more seriously today than they were five years ago, but views on climate change remain sharply divided along partisan lines as the November…
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By: Trone Dowd A poll conducted by VICE News, The Guardian and several partners shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax. A majority of U.S. voters want to see…
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By: Bill McKibben Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe. To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidential…
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By: Lisa Held Fires rage in the West as storms, hurricanes, and floods hit the rest of the country. Progressives are pushing Biden to transform the food system and manage and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. Last…
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By: Colleen Hagerty A photo of a girl in a hoodie, skipping school to sit in front of a government building in Sweden with a no-frills sign: “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” or “School Strike for Climate”; a video of dozens of young…
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By: Jeff Berardelli Right on the heels of arguably the West Coast's most intense heat wave in modern history comes the most ferocious flare-up of catastrophic wildfires in recent memory. Meanwhile, just a few hundred miles…
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In a recent series of interviews with Covering Climate Now partners, the United Nations Secretary General General António Guterres stressed the interconnectedness of the two biggest disasters the world is currently facing – the coronavirus…
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By: Kimberly White New Jersey schools will now be required to teach students about climate change. The New Jersey State Board of Education has adopted new guidelines to incorporate climate change education throughout its K-12…
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By: Vernon Loeb, Marianne Lavelle, Stacy Feldman Pursuing an unrelenting fossil fuel agenda, Trump has scaled back or eliminated over 150 environment measures, expanded Arctic drilling, and denied climate science. In the middle of…
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By: Rishika Pardikar As India moves toward ambitious climate goals, it is trampling on sacred groves in desert ecosystems. India has an ambitious target to generate 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022. Lands chosen to…
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By: Sharon Kelly Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QAnon’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered, for…
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By: Damian Carrington Drop in emissions was a blip, say scientists, and a green recovery is vital to halt global heating. The draconian coronavirus lockdowns across the world have led to sharp drops in carbon emissions, but this will…
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By: Joan Conrow As wildfires blaze throughout the American West, climate change skeptics are downplaying both their devastating impact on forests and the role of rising global temperatures in sparking infernos. This point of…
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By: Jeff Masters, Ph.D. Rapidly intensifying storms like Hurricanes Laura, Michael, and Harvey are dangerous because they can catch forecasters and the public off guard. Hurricane Laura put on a phenomenal show of rapid…
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By: Jeff Barardelli From the historic heat wave and wildfires in the West, to the massive derecho that tore through the middle of the nation, to the record-breaking pace of this year's hurricane season, the unprecedented and…
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By: Oliver Milman The US will officially exit the Paris accord one day after the 2020 US election and architects of that deal say the stakes could not be higher. It was a balmy June day in 2017 when Donald Trump took…
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