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Our species has just reached a new high. The average temperature in the northern hemisphere reached two degrees Celsius above…
Our species has just reached a new high. The average temperature in the northern hemisphere reached two degrees Celsius above…
The Paris agreement on climate change calls for a global responsibility to cooperate.
The head of one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies urged governments Wednesday to adopt a global price on carbon…
The head of one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies urged governments Wednesday to adopt a global price on carbon…
The oil boom that began less than a decade ago is now on shaky ground, with U.S.
Coal, one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet, still supplies roughly one-third the electricity in the U.S., and even a larger…
© René TREGOUET, übergizmo (FR) Un mois après la clôture de la COP21, René Trégouët signe cette tribune dans laquelle il…
The Obama administration has halted new leases for coal mining on federal lands as it launches a multi-year review of…
Share 26 Tweet Comment Chinese coal use peaked back in 2013, as Climate Progress first reported in May.
Учёные долгое время не отличались благосклонностью к средствам массовой информации, но ситуация постепенно меняется.
The 2015 science research that set the Internet abuzz included a super antibiotic, plastics pollution in the ocean, climate…
At the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties in Paris, 195 countries approved an agreement that commits nearly every…
At the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties in Paris, 195 countries approved an agreement that commits nearly every…
As the gavel came down on the Paris climate negotiations on Saturday night, nearly 200 countries agreed on a historic deal to…
LES AVANCEES 1 – Le "bottom up" L’équipe française a, de l’avis général, réussi à mettre en place une nouvelle méthode qui a…
A new resolution directs Portland to oppose any increase in oil trains, like this one pictured in Wisconsin.
Twenty fifteen will go down in history as the year when humanity pushed global surface temperatures into an unchartered…
Huaorani natives and Yasunidos activists march in Quito on April 12, 2014. (Photo: Rodrigo Buendia/) With tens of thousands of…
Major oil and gas companies and coal mining giants this week expressed support for the global effort to confront climate change.
Major oil and gas companies and coal mining giants this week expressed support for the global effort to confront climate change.
Hell on earth or a bunch of money, depending on how you look at it. Photo via Flickr user Howl Arts Collective.
The Canadian tar sands, or oil sands, are much more carbon-laden than most other fossil fuels produced in North America, and…
Developing shale gas is not complementary to renewables, nor will it ease the transition to renewables.
Even as President Obama further amplifies his rhetoric about addressing climate change, a coalition of environmental…
The internationally agreed-upon threshold for dangerous global warming is 2 degrees Celsius. But nature doesn’t negotiate.
Marathon Oil Corp. CEO Lee Tillman took home a $1.7 million bonus last year, in part because of the company’s expansion into…
President Obama brought his crusade against climate change to Alaska this week to highlight the effects of warming. But the…
Una decena de proyectos de grandes compañías tratan de encontrar hidrocarburos en el mar
Against a backdrop of oil prices below $50 a barrel, some Arctic drillers are handing back leases or allow them to expire…
NEWS: Organisers say 1,000 activists got into RWE's opencast lignite mine in Rhineland, Germany on Saturday and halted diggers
NEWS: Organisers expect a thousand people from across Europe to target opencast lignite mine, a major source of emissions
Clean water is one of many scarce resources that will be under pressure. Reuters Humanity is on course for a population greater…
Totally beautiful, right? Photo vis Flickr user jasonwoodhead23 In the era of holy-shit- Donald-Trump-might-actually-become-Comma…
NEWS: Government failed to consider yakka skink and ornamental snake in permit for AU$16 billion Carmichael mine, judge finds
Shell's icebreaker ship bound for the Arctic has finally set sail, after Greenpeace protesters lost their battle to prevent the…
INTERVIEW: Jay Weatherill, state premier, tells RTCC how regions can out-green their national governments
NEWS: Indian conglomerate Adani has suspended engineering work on the Carmichael project, raising speculation it could pull out
Swimmers occupy the waters and Greenpeace vessel attempts to intercepts the Shell oil rig off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
The Apollo Programme proposed this week to make renewable energy cheaper than coal through technological advances is welcome…
It always seems impossible until it's done. NASA A group of prominent scientists has launched an “Apollo programme” for…
On Monday, President Obama gave Royal Dutch Shell permission to drill in the Alaskan Arctic this summer. It was the President's…
Every tonne of coal burnt is a tonne off the carbon budget to keep warming below 2C. david_a_l/Flickr , CC BY-NC-ND Ninety per…
ExxonMobil's business strategy, which supports Arctic drilling, denies the reality of climate change and is a danger to the…
COMMENT: London should leverage its expertise on sustainable business models, technology and investment in lead up to UN…
Using standard assumptions, extracting and using all our reserves and resources would lead to a total temperature increase of 16.
«Le Figaro» a exhumé un rapport vantant une exploitation alternative à la fracturation hydraulique. Un document très orienté et…
Recent research published in the journal Nature details the locations and amounts of the world’s fossil fuel reserves that will…
This is the first of a two-part article analysing India’s plans to double coal production by the end of this decade. The article…
The building of coal-fired power stations across much of the world is declining, but the trend is not enough to avert the risk…
Strom aus Kohle ist billig – jetzt aber scheint der weltweite Bauboom bei Kraftwerken gebrochen. Selbst China hat mittlerweile…
The University of Oxford is expected to decide on Monday whether to pull out its investments in publicly-traded fossil fuel…
The Port of Seattle has accused citizen groups of playing politics for opposing a plan to use Seattle's waterfront as a…
A new report documents the climate impacts of various types of oil. As governments address climate-warming greenhouse gases…
Drilling in the Chukchi Sea is a catastrophe waiting to happen. So why does it have the Obama administration's OK?
Photo: Harvard students for fossil fuel divestment carry out a sit-in at the office of President Drew Faust in February, 2015.
Subhankar Banerjee An ice-choked ocean, tens of thousands of whales, no proven technology in case of emergency and a mission…
The Obama Administration, Shell, and the Fate of the Arctic Ocean Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Here’s a Jeopardy!- style…
Three days ago, President Obama pulled out his veto pen to derail the latest attempt by Big Oil's members of Congress to force…
The seemingly unending Keystone XL saga hit the spotlight again Tuesday — when President Obama vetoed legislation that would…
President Barack Obama was swift to veto a Republican-led bill that would have greenlighted the contentious Keystone XL pipeline…
Wer eine Kohlemine hat, wird auch den letzten Splitter davon ausgraben wollen. Doch was, wenn die Kohle der Umwelt zuliebe…
(This article, written by Andrew E. Miller, originally appeared on Amazon Watch. It has been reprinted here with permission.…
Ditching the Keystone XL pipeline should be a no-brainer. The 1,179-mile pipeline extension would carry some of the world's…
Some things just have to stay dead and buried.
NEWS: BP slashes spending but declines to follow Shell's example in backing a shareholder campaign on climate risk disclosure
Faced with climate change, economic doldrums and collapsing oil prices, the government has the perfect opportunity to put…
Suncor thinks so, but we say it's the only way to challenge Canada's unfair climate politics. Related Stories Why Divestment…
Fracking and OPEC strategy may not be the main influences on oil prices As New York shakes off another dose of the climate…
The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org . Two potential Republican candidates for president distorted the facts…
This is the Climate Moment. A possible turning point....
"It makes no sense to invest in companies that undermine our future. To serve as custodians of creation is not an empty title…
New research identifies which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius. Vast amounts…
All arktisk olje og gass bør bli liggende hvis verden skal nå togradersmålet, konkluderer britiske forskere. Naturvernforbundet…
Le réchauffement climatique est un phénomène inquiétant mais la raréfaction des sources d’énergie fossiles l'est tout autant.
A halving of oil prices is hailed as good news for cash-strapped consumers. But there could also be unexpected gains for the…
Scientists have realized for some time now that the extraction of fossil fuels must dramatically slow down if the global…
NEWS: Total decarbonisation by 2050 is "unrealistic", says Saudi Arabia's UN climate envoy
With 80% of the world's fossil fuel reserves 'unburnable' if the world is to meet its climate targets, writes Melanie Mattauch…
12.01.2015.- Para alcanzar la meta del PNUMA de reducir la temperatura del planeta se necesita reducir las emisiones de GEI y…
Motorists in the United States and elsewhere have been treated to low prices. Whether they will bounce back is another question.
Researchers from University College London have conducted a study into the exact proportion of current discovered fossil fuels…
All eyes are on U.S. President Barack Obama, now that the Republican-dominatedHouse of Representatives voted 266-153 to approve…
Canada has made international headlines again—and again for all the wrong reasons. It's a pattern that's becoming…
The "Lima call for climate action", which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020…
Αν η ανθρωπότητα θέλει να κρατήσει κάτω από τους 2 βαθμούς Κελσίου την αύξηση της θερμοκρασίας μέχρι τα τέλη του αιώνα, το μεγαλύ…
Se vogliamo contenere il riscaldamento del pianeta entro un aumento di due gradi rispetto ai livelli pre-industriali, dovremo…
If the rise in global temperatures is to be kept below an internationally agreed 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit…
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