Climate change
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Students clashed with riot police on Thursday amid anger over failure to protect a high-profile campaigner who had repeatedly received threats on her life
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Climate Home: Environment ministers criticise ‘very weak’ European commission response to Paris climate pact – but other states defend existing target
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100 months to save the world When it comes to a shift to low-carbon energy, key players need a history lesson
Andrew SimmsAndrew Simms: From railway rollouts to post-war ‘homes for heroes’, history shows us that societies are capable of great and rapid transition in response to a known challenge with clear targets -
January and February have both broken temperature records. Karl Mathiesen examines how much is down to El Niño versus manmade climate change
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Winnowing away of the ice, exacerbated by soot blown on to the ice from wildfires, means Greenland’s ice sheet is stuck in a ‘feedback loop’
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Dana Nuccitelli: A new paper makes Ted Cruz’s favorite chart obsolete, as atmospheric temperatures set a new record
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Climate change is a potent element in the deadly brew of disaster risk
Helen Clark and Robert GlasserBy tackling the environment we can also mitigate the impact of disasters, as heatwaves, droughts and floods threaten the lives of millions -
New research shows global warming’s effect on the quality of food available could kill more than 500,000 people a year around the world by 2050
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Institution set up to power UK’s green energy revolution could switch to funding more lucrative schemes abroad, say critics
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Critics take the billionaire investor to task for saying, in an annual shareholder letter, that fears about the negative impact of climate change on Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance business are unfounded
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New findings show a ‘convergence of evidence’ that climate change has influenced the Syrian drought, Climate Central reports
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John Abraham: New research addresses the economic costs of damages associated with sea level rise
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Reports find increases in family violence and mental health problems due to stress of natural disasters outweighs cost of rebuilding infrastructure
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Reclaim the Power says it will use direct action at a dozen international sites in May, including the UK’s largest opencast coal mine in south Wales
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The Oscar-winning actor’s environmental activism may not quite stretch back to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape but he has steadily schooled himself on the oceans and climate change since the 1990s
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Note from the European commission reveals emissions trading system allowance numbers are not in line with global 2C target
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The Academy Award ceremony saw a plethora of principled statements from the winners’ podium – with more than #OscarsSoWhite in their sights
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Coal use fell 3.7% in 2015, following 2.9% drop in 2014, as China tries to wean itself off fuel that causes local air pollution problems and global warming
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Measures to save 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions per year have been delayed amid concerns highlighted by ‘toastergate’
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At our weatherboard infants’ school in the bush, the memorably severe Miss Cashman had to get us to safety when the bushfire came
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Tasmania's bushfires: a human-made calamity on par with the razing of Palmyra's temples
Karl MathiesenAs 1,000-year-old trees turn to ash and dried-out peat bogs burn, the devastation of these precious plains is a harbinger of a warmer, far less wonderful world -
Before receiving suspended sentences on Thursday, the Heathrow 13 climate change activists explain why they they occupied the airport
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EU open to increasing 2030 carbon target, says top climate negotiator