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Climate Crisis
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Climate Change Messaging: Avoid the Truth
We must admit that climate change is an unavoidable outcome of an unsustainable political-economy, and techno-fixes will not save us.
“Fierce Green Fire” Documentary Explores Environmental Movement’s Global Rise
In an Earth Day special, Amy Goodman looks at the history of the global environmental movement as told in the sweeping new documentary, "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle …
Who Will Pay for Climate Change Disaster?
A discussion with Patrick Bond on the lack of political will to deal with climate change and the forces mobilizing for action.
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Insect Population Dwindling in Louisiana Marshlands Four Years After BP Blowout
Louisiana State University entomologist Linda Hooper-Bui work documents the dwindling of the insect population in areas directly hit with the oil.
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The Code of Crisis and Disaster
To respond to a week of triple catastrophe - a UN climate change report, the Ryan budget, the McCutcheon decision - it is crucial to confront and decode our …
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On Climate, Business as Usual
Despite mounting evidence that global warming is an urgent crisis, emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than over the previous three decades.
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Four Years After BP: Hunting for Oil Spills in Louisiana
Years after the disastrous BP oil spill caused massive environmental damage in the Gulf, smaller oil spills are a continuous but largely unnoticed problem.
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Why Ordinary Citizens Have No Say
The US could be at the forefront of creating a global green economy that runs on renewable energy. Unfortunately, we can't beat our addiction to big money.
“Years of Living Dangerously”: Is This the New Trend?
The media is taking deep dives to communicate science, solutions and the human side of climate change.
Momentum on Fossil Fuel Divestment Grows as Harvard Professors, Desmond Tutu Call for Action
Momentum is growing in the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies.