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Washington governor says 'the climate change bomb has gone off' as West Coast...

"What the scientific community is telling us now, is that the Earth is screaming at us," said the Washington governor. "We need to stop using fossil fuels. That is the only solution to this massive...

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Climate Clock drops below six years as 'summer of hell' scorches Earth

"This summer shows the devastating impacts are now. We need to act like we are living in a climate emergency."Activists around the world held a day of action on Saturday as the "Climate Clock" for the...

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'Dangerous and life-threatening': Democrats demand heat-related protections...

Scientists and environmentalists have been warning that as climate change continues to escalate, it will inflict damage in a variety of ways. The 2023 summer has brought everything from major flooding...

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'Dreading the devastation': Australian scientists fear climate change will...

Australia has had considerable first-hand experience with the effects of climate change, from wildfires to flooding. Presently, Australia is in the middle of winter (July and August are winter months...

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Nikki Haley’s climate plan: 'Patriotic' oil rigs and 'go after India and China'

With the 2024 summer bringing everything from flooding in Vermont to heatwaves in Southern Europe and wildfires in Quebec, scientists and environmentalists are urging governments to cut back on fossil...

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Sanders demands 'cutting military spending' amid 'enormous' healthcare and...

"As a nation, the time is long overdue for fundamental changes to our national priorities. Cutting military spending is a good first step."Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Monday that he intends to vote...

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How Wall Street underwriting quietly funnels billions into fossil ​fuels:...

A report out Monday sheds light on how big U.S. banks' underwriting of bonds and equities for polluting corporations constitutes a "hidden pipeline" for fossil fuel financing. It's no secret that...

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'We’ve fallen off a cliff': Scientists warn Atlantic currents could collapse...

"It is very plausible that we've fallen off a cliff already and don't know it," said one researcher.The system of Atlantic Ocean currents that drive warm water from the tropics toward Europe is at...

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'Could be a world record': South Florida ocean temperature hits 101.1°F

A buoy positioned roughly 40 miles south of Miami recorded a sea surface temperature of 101.1°F earlier this week, stunning scientists who say the reading could mark the latest in a string of global...

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'Existential dread': Climate change is hurting people’s sex lives

The Summer of 2023 has had no shortage of extreme weather events underscoring the dangers of climate change. In June, smoke from wildfires in Quebec, Canada was so severe that it drifted south and...

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Scientists: 'Barring a major asteroid impact' July 2023 will be Earth’s...

"We can still stop the worst," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres insisted. "But to do so we must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition."As new data released Thursday showed...

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'Extreme' Texas heat could cost state businesses over $9 billion: report

Residents of Texas are opting to stay inside as "extreme heat" persists, according to a Saturday, July 29 Business Insider report, and last month, the National Weather Service predicted "no end in...

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YouTube makes millions from channels pushing climate disinformation: analysis

Google-owned YouTube is again facing allegations of profiting from not enforcing its own ban on the monetization of climate misinformation, this time in a report published Friday amid legislative...

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Meteorologist: Humanity has reached 'a point we cannot return from' as ocean...

Editor's note: A closing quotation mark was added to the final paragraph.Emmy-Award-winning veteran NBC Miami meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin sounded his loudest-ever alarm on Saturday about the state...

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'5 generations of cancers': What 'Oppenheimer' movie fails to tell us about...

Hiroshima, Japan is where, on August 6, 1945, the United States, under President Harry Truman, detonated a nuclear bomb (a nuclear attack on Nagasaki was carried out three days later). But it was in...

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'Polluters must pay': Senators urge Biden DOJ to sue Big Oil over decades of...

"Thanks to the illegal lies of the fossil fuel industry, climate change is wreaking catastrophic damage upon the United States," four progressive U.S. senators write in a new letter.A group of...

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Is Earth close to another 'Great Dying'?

You may remember the 2004 disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, in which large parts of Europe and the American East Coast suddenly freeze up?This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a...

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Bernie Sanders says Big Oil must pay for 'extraordinary damage it has caused'

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reiterated his call for the Biden Justice Department to take legal action against the fossil fuel industry, arguing that oil companies have violated a range of federal...

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Fox News host: President Biden’s move to protect Grand Canyon land a ploy to...

Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday night criticized President Joe Biden's decision to protect the area around the Grand Canyon by declaring it a national monument. Media Matters for America Deputy...

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'Nothing more important': Advocates say Biden 'practically' declaring climate...

"There's nothing more important than what happens today," said one environmental lawyer. "And there's no person in the world with more power to do good than Joe Biden."In an interview with The Weather...

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