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    Used vehicles exported from richer countries are contributing to increased air pollution in developing nations and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a report published on Monday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). 

  • Africa climate change report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter

    Africa needs to prepare better for climate change by responding to a wide range of potential risks, a multi-agency report led by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday, the first in a series of continent-by-continent assessments.

  • Climate action: UN chief encouraged by Japan’s 2050 net zero pledge 

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Japan’s announcement on Monday that it would reduce carbon emissions to zero, by 2050, as part of the global effort to slow the worldwide rise in temperatures, and prevent the most damaging effects of human-made climate change. 

  • ExxonMobil Claims Shift on Climate But Continues to Fund Climate Science Deniers

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  • Earthquakes and the H.B. Robinson Plant: A Case Study of the NRC’s Failure to Learn from the Fukushima Accident

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  • How California Will Prepare Its Infrastructure for More Climate Catastrophes

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  • Climate Justice and the Debate about Community Solar on Farmland

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  • Climate Litigation Spreads across the United States

    Exxon Shareholders Meeting Action 2019/350.orgWith hurricanes in the Gulf South and wildfires in the West, the intensifying impacts of climate change have been inescapable as summer turns to fall. Summer 2020 also brought a wave of new climate lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry, including several firsts: the first suit in the South (Charleston, South Carolina); the first suits to...

  • Ask a Scientist: Nearly Everything You Want to Know about Climate Lawsuits

    This summer Connecticut, Delaware and Minnesota joined some 20 states, cities and counties across the country that have filed climate change lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, charging that they have been aware of the threat their products pose to the climate for decades and deliberately misled the public about the reality and seriousness of global warming. Many of those cases, including...

  • Northern Ireland Wind Farm Owners Cash In On Coronavirus Grants

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  • Sorry, WaPo, Climate Change Isn’t Stoking ‘California’s Infernos’

    The Washington Post has published an article, “How Escalating Climate Change Fuels California’s Infernos,” that asserts false claims about climate change without providing any meaningful supporting evidence. Data indicate natural conditions and poor land management practices are the main causes of this year’s California wildfires. Climate change is not a factor. The Post article asserts climate change is causing a “megadrought” in...

  • Biden’s Huge Carbon Footprint Belies His Radical Climate Agenda

    Former Vice President Joe Biden has made fighting so-called man-made climate change a pillar of his 2020 presidential platform, but reports show that he is leaving behind a huge carbon footprint traveling on the campaign trail. In 2019, Biden said the country has to take “drastic action right now to address the climate disaster facing our nation and the world.” But his...

  • Exported used cars ‘dumped’ on developing nations, driving up pollution, UN warns

    Used vehicles exported from richer countries are contributing to increased air pollution in developing nations and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a report published on Monday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). 

  • Africa climate change report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter

    Africa needs to prepare better for climate change by responding to a wide range of potential risks, a multi-agency report led by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday, the first in a series of continent-by-continent assessments.

  • Climate action: UN chief encouraged by Japan’s 2050 net zero pledge 

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Japan’s announcement on Monday that it would reduce carbon emissions to zero, by 2050, as part of the global effort to slow the worldwide rise in temperatures, and prevent the most damaging effects of human-made climate change. 

  • FROM THE FIELD: Women guardians of the environment

    Women from around the world are being given a more prominent role in the fight against climate change, thanks to the efforts of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

  • FROM THE FIELD: Cultivating a response to disasters in Malawi

    Farmers in Malawi who are struggling with the dual threats of climate change and an economic crisis worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, are learning how to more accurately predict the weather and prepare for the eventuality of natural disasters, thanks to a project supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

  • Flooding leaves South Sudan facing threat of ‘catastrophic’ hunger levels 

    Torrential rains and flooding across South Sudan have created the threat of “catastrophic” levels of hunger and left hundreds of thousands homeless, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. 

  • Shift needed from what weather will be, to ‘what the weather will do’

    Extreme weather and climate events have increased in frequency, intensity and severity as a result of climate change, hitting vulnerable communities disproportionately hard, a new UN report has revealed, calling for greater investment in effective early warning systems. 

  • Sudan alert: Flooding and surging inflation threaten humanitarian assistance 

    Catastrophic flooding and rising food and health costs in Sudan, have driven up the number of people in need, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. 

  • UN chief urges ministers to provide ‘decisive leadership’ on climate action

    With nations striving to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impacts, efforts must focus on decarbonizing the global economy and building a more inclusive and resilient future, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday.

  • ‘Staggering’ rise in climate emergencies in last 20 years, new disaster research shows

    The first 20 years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday, while also maintaining that “almost all nations” have failed to prevent a “wave of death and illness” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

  • Greening of India's railway network on track

    An ambitious plan to make one of the world’s largest and most complex railway networks a net zero carbon emitter by 2030 is moving full steam ahead, although without the steam, thanks, in part, to support from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

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  • California’s Rising and Sinking Coast

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  • Record-Setting Fires in Colorado and California

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  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About Wilderness

    The great outdoors is good for our overall health, but this precious resource is in danger.

  • The Arctic Hasn’t Been This Warm for 3 Million Years — and That Foreshadows Big Changes for the Rest of the Planet

    Extreme shrinkage of summer sea ice is just the latest evidence of rapid Arctic warming — and what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay there.

  • George Washington Carver’s Legacy Went Beyond Peanuts

    The famed scientist made lasting contributions to environmental and sustainable farming.
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