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Truthout is proud to join with more than 200 other news outlets for Covering Climate Now, a project geared toward deepening media coverage of the climate crisis.
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This Earth Day, Stop the Money Pipeline
We’re cooked unless investors stop funding fossil fuel companies.
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Environmental and Labor Groups Team Up to Demand COVID-19 Relief
Nine days of action planned for Earth Day to May Day will highlight the intersections of climate and worker justice.
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Australia’s Marine Animals Are the Fires’ Unseen Victims
Ash and silt will choke underwater ecosystems.
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Australia Is on Fire — Its Government Must Stop Denying Climate Crisis
I am a climate scientist. In Australia, I witnessed firsthand that the climate emergency has already arrived.
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UN Secretary-General Calls on Biggest Polluters to Step Up Climate Efforts
Young people, the UN and a growing number of leaders are mobilizing, but we need many others to take action.
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Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal
The largest city in Michigan exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.
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Activists Shut Down DC Streets as Climate Activism Heats Up
Friday’s climate strike was not a one-off moment.
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“How Dare You!” Greta Thunberg Rebukes World Leaders
“We will not let you get away with this,” the 16-year-old climate strike leader tells the UN Climate Action Summit.
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Can Nuclear Power’s Deadly Waste Be Contained in a Warming World?
Nuclear reactors are highly vulnerable to radioactive meltdowns in an era of rising climate disasters.
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US and Canadian Bird Population Dropped by Nearly 3 Billion in 48 Years
As bird populations dwindle, so do the chances of species survival.