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Copenhagen Announces Plan To Divest $1 Billion From Fossil Fuels
If the mayor's proposal is approved at a finance committee meeting Tuesday, the Danish capital will become the country’s first investment fund to sell its stocks and bonds in fossil fuels.
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Scientists Now 99.99% Certain Humans Are Responsible for Record Heating Of Earth
13 of the 15 hottest years in the past century and a half occurred between 2000 and 2014 – and researchers found there is a just a 0.01% chance that this happened due to natural variations in the planet’s climate.
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"All Risk, No Reward": U.S. Tribes Oppose Massive Pipeline Expansion In Canada
Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project would carry crude from Alberta's tar sands to the Vancouver area to be loaded on to tankers for Asian and U.S. markets – drastically putting the fishing and cultural heritage of U.S. tribes at risk.
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McKibben: Night of the Living Dead, Climate Change-Style
How to stop the fossil fuel industry from wrecking our world.
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Davos: Climate-Related Catastrophe Is Biggest Threat to World Economy in 2016
The annual assessment of risks conducted by the World Economic Forum before its annual meeting next week showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns.
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Climate Protests In 10 U.S. Cities Call For Tougher Clean Power Plan
Environmental justice leaders from communities hardest-hit by climate change will converge Jan. 19 on regional EPA headquarters to denounce the mining, fracking, burning and dumping of waste threatening U.S. towns and cities.
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Tipping Point for Anthropocene: Fossil Fuel Burning Is "Postponing the Next Ice Age"
“The bottom line is we are basically skipping a whole glacial cycle, which is unprecedented."
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British Columbia Puts the Kibosh On Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion
After fierce environmental and aboriginal resistance, the BC government said it will formally oppose the Trans Mountain pipeline's expansion to the Canadian west coast – signaling the latest blow to tar sands producers, and a victory for the climate.
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Exxon's Oil Industry Peers Knew About Climate Dangers in the 1970s, Too
Members of an American Petroleum Institute task force on CO2 included scientists from nearly every major oil company, including Exxon, Texaco and Shell.
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Global Warming-Induced Floods Hammer Britain As Tories Approve New Fracking Law
Legislation signed in mid-December enables frackers to drill beneath World Heritage Sites, Groundwater Protection Zones, and national parks across Britain.