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Great Barrier Reef Geoengineering an Expensive Smokescreen, Scientists Say
Researchers and innovators are piling on to the effort to geoengineer a way to protect Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from a warming ocean. But ... -
AustraliaBiodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictions
Australian Megafires Could Have Lasting Consequences on Outback Vegetation
Australia’s desperate summer of ferocious bushfires in 2019-2020 burned more than 19 million hectares, devastating plant ecosystems and razing more than 90% of the ... -
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Going All In on EV Adoption Won’t Solve America’s Car Addiction: Op-Ed
While the Biden administration’s recent pledge to replace the U.S. government’s fleet of some 650,000 vehicles with EVs is being welcomed, observers warn that ... -
Perth, Australia Bushfire Forces Evacuations Despite Pandemic Lockdown
A bushfire outside Perth, Australia has destroyed 71 homes, injured six firefighters, and forced some residents to evacuate—even though the city had just entered ... -
AustraliaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Smoke Exposure Could Mean Higher Microbial Infection Risk for Wildland Firefighters
Wildfire smoke contains microbes, a fact that’s often ignored, but one that may have important health repercussions, Wildfire Today reports. -
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$85 Billion in Coal Investments Leave BlackRock Open to Charges of Greenwashing
A year after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink issued a landmark investors’ letter that stressed climate risk and fossil fuel divestment, the world’s biggest asset ... -
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Insurance Industry Contends with Rising Losses as Climate Chaos Sweeps the Globe
The climate crisis is exacting a rising price from the global insurance industry, a relief and development agency says. As the world digests the ... -
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‘Now Fix the Future’: UN Climate Ambition Summit Delivers Progress, Leaves More Ground to Cover
Leaders and diplomats from 75 countries closed out the Climate Ambition Summit Saturday with solid progress in the road to stabilizing average global warming ... -
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U.S. Takes Colossal (Dis)Honours in Special Five-Year Fossil Awards
The United States won the highly-coveted Colossal Fossil of Five Years, as well as a second award for stinginess on climate finance, while Brazil ... -
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Analyst Cites Fossil Exports as the ‘Biggest Climate Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of’
The focus on domestic greenhouse gas reductions in the run-up to next year’s United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, COP 26, will leave out ... -
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BREAKING: Countries’ Fossil Extraction Plans Drive Emissions Far Past 1.5°C Limit
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a “potential turning point” in global fossil fuel production, countries will drive greenhouse gas emissions far beyond a ... -
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Canada Boosts Fossil Subsidies to $14.3B Per Year, Joins Saudi Arabia as G20’s Top Two Oil and Gas Funders
Canada averaged US$14.3 billion per year in fossil fuel subsidies between 2017 and 2019, earning it top ranking alongside Saudi Arabia as the two ... -
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Biden-Harris Win Could Bring 1.5°C ‘Within Striking Distance’, Climate Think Tank Declares
With their promise to bring the United States back into the Paris Agreement on Day One of their new administration, and a US$2-trillion climate ... -
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Australian Pension Fund Settles ‘Groundbreaking’ Claim on Climate Risk Assessment
An Australian retirement fund worth A$57 billion has reached an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit launched by a member who accused it of jeopardizing ... -
AustraliaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalFinance & InvestmentIndiaJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsNon-Renewable Energy
Another Lloyd’s of London Insurer Refuses to Back Adani Coal Mine
350.org is declaring a win after Apollo, an insurance provider that belongs to Lloyd’s of London, declared it will not renew the coverage it ...
