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AustraliaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Finance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryNational Plans & ResponsesSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
‘Carbon-Free’ Virtual Forum Demands 1.5°C Action for World’s Most Vulnerable Nations
The Climate Vulnerable Forum completed the world’s first-ever zero-emissions climate summit this week, a day-long virtual meeting that challenged the inevitably more carbon-intensive COP ... -
AsiaClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
Philippines Commission Probes Fossils’ Accountability for Extreme Climate Impacts
The business writers at The Economist are paying attention to an inquiry launched by the Philippine Commission on Human Rights, aimed at determining for ... -
Five Years After Super Typhoon Haiyan, Filipina Survivor Testifies Against Big Fossil Polluters
“As we were leaving Tacloban it reminded me of the scene from the Hunger Games. I thought: I never want to come back to ... -
Climate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresFood SecuritySevere Storms & FloodingSoil & Natural Sequestration
Regenerative Agriculture Gives Farmers a Hedge Against Drought, Flooding
After four “disaster years” on his farm in Bismarck, North Dakota from 1995 to 1998, food producer Gabe Brown changed up the basic assumptions ... -
Analysts Fret About ‘Scandal Waiting to Happen’ as Puerto Rico Begins Drive for 100% RE
Puerto Rico legislators have opened hearings on a bid to end the monopoly status of the island’s bankrupt utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power ... -
Energy PoliticsFood SecuritySevere Storms & FloodingSoil & Natural SequestrationSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
U.S. Farmers See Climate Impacts, Seek Sustainable Solutions, Despite Corn Belt Politics
While their politicians refuse to talk about climate change, farmers in Iowa are getting nervous about the climate impacts they’re seeing in their fields, ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBuildingsCitiesDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island StatesUnited States
Intense Hurricane Obliterates Hawaiian Island
A 4.5-hectare Hawaiian island was literally wiped off the map forever when Hurricane Walaka swept through the region earlier this month, just a couple ... -
Flash Flood in Jordan Kills 18, Mostly Children and Teachers
A flash flood near Jordan’s Dead Sea yesterday killed 18 people, mostly children and teachers on a school trip, producing what rescuers and hospital ... -
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Doctors Ask Trudeau for Independent Health Assessment of Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
More than 200 health professionals from Canada and around the world are calling on the Trudeau government to conduct an independent health assessment of ...
