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“Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering.” Scientists alarmed as September smashes temperature records

Over the northern hemisphere summer that has been dominated by floods, fires, and unrelenting heat, with temperature records being regularly smashed, climate scientists have become increasingly alarmed.

Vietnam: OCI stands in solidarity with Hoang Thi Minh Hong and Ngo Thi To Nhien

The wheels of oppression have turned again. We have known for a while that Vietnam has been systematically silencing its environmental critics under false pretenses.

A day after IEA calls for no new oil & gas development, UK approves vast Rosebank oil field

Barely is the ink dry on the IEA’s report which called for no new oil and gas development, and yet today, the UK Government gave the go-ahead to the huge Rosebank oil field, which is seen as the UK’s last untapped oil field.

Wow! Just Wow! 700 marches, 600,000 people on 7 continents demand #EndFossilFuels

The turnout wildly exceeded expectations, proof that this summer's record heat, mega floods, and severe weather are putting the climate crisis, and the fight against fossil fuels, at the forefront of peoples' minds. The turnout was global.

Civil society criticizes African Climate Summit for promoting false solutions, not fossil fuel phaseout

Last week, some 30,000 delegates and 25 African heads of state, as well as the European Commission President, UN Secretary-General and US Special Envoy on Climate, gathered in Nairobi for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit.

As devastating floods replace record heat, U.S. insurers reduce cover over climate risks

After the heat comes the floods. A northern hemisphere summer, which has upended climate models and redefined extreme weather on land and seas, continues to set nearly daily records.

As billboards call out Big Oil for causing extreme weather, Exxon says climate targets “will fail”

If one oil company is synonymous with funding decades of climate denial, it is Exxon. For decades, the oil giant copied the deadly playbook of Big Tobacco of sowing doubt about the evidence and delaying action.

Banking on Destruction: The Role of Major Banks in the Mountain Valley Pipeline

US main street banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America have provided loans to Mountain Valley Pipeline since the beginning. These banks have continued pouring money into the project over recent years, despite numerous warnings that the project has been financially unsustainable, a threat to the climate and environmental justice communities in Appalachia.

Despite record fires and flooding, GOP and U.S. media remain in climate denial

As I write, over a thousand people are still missing from the devastating wildfires that ravaged the Hawaiian town of Lahaina two weeks ago. Over a hundred are confirmed dead.

Historic victory for Indigenous communities against oil drilling in the Amazon

Amongst the barrage of near-constant lousy news on the climate, from record rain bombs and flooding to relentless heat domes and wildfires, comes historic great news.