Submissions from commondreams.org

• Greenpeace Finds Labels on Plastic Products 'Mislead the Public and Harm America's Recycling Systems', corporations are hiding behind the pretense that their throwaway packaging is recyclable.

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  Published 20th Feb 2020
• 'One Hand Cannot Give What the Other Is Taking Away': Critics Skeptical of Bezos Pledge of $10 Billion to Fight Climate Crisis - "Will Jeff Bezos show us true leadership or will he continue to be complicit in the acceleration of the climate crisis, while supposedly trying to help?"

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  Published 19th Feb 2020
• 'Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes': Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Farther Than Previously Known

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  Published 16th Feb 2020
• 'The Saddest Thing Is That It Won't Be Breaking News': Concentration of CO2 Hits Record High of 416 ppm | "Emissions from fossil fuels and deforestation need to be reduced to ZERO to stop this trend!"

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse

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  Published 11th Feb 2020
• Sanders Rips Trump for Lacking 'Courage' to Confront Fossil Fuel Industry After President Bragged About Oil Boom - "President Trump is turning his back on the children of America and on future generations, and dooming them to live in a planet increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable."

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  Published 5th Feb 2020
• Condemning NAFTA 2.0 as 'Giveaway to Fossil Fuel Industry,' Sanders Vows to Immediately Renegotiate Trump Deal If Elected

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• Climate Groups Thank Sanders for Being Only Candidate at Debate to Stand Against Trump-Led Trade Deal

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• 57 Climate Scientists Object After Biden Falsely Claims "Not a Single Solitary Scientist" Thinks Sanders' Green New Deal Can Work

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• Sanders Takes Aim at Corporate Polluters With Bill to Clean Up Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water

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  Published 30th Jan 2020
• A Watershed Moment': The Guardian Applauded for Banning Ads From Fossil Fuel Companies - "Who's next?" asked climate campaigners, urging all media outlets and other institutions to cut ties with planet-wrecking polluters.

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  Published 29th Jan 2020
• 57 Climate Scientists Object After Biden Falsely Claims "Not a Single Solitary Scientist" Thinks Sanders' Green New Deal Can Work - In an open letter, the climate experts say Bernie's plan "not only possible," but necessary "if we want to save the planet for ourselves, our children, grandchildren,

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  Published 29th Jan 2020
• 'Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen': Trump Guts Safeguards for US Streams and Wetlands

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  Published 23rd Jan 2020
• Despite Trump Vows, Coal Industry Falling as Wind Power Surges in US and Worldwide - Trump is one of a handful of significant trans-generational genocidal maniacs whose policies will kill millions in the future.

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• Mayor Pete and Joe Biden start taking money from fossil fuel companies.

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  Published 19th Jan 2020
• 'Scale of This Failure Has No Precedent': Scientists Say Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds

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  Published 17th Jan 2020
• 'Unquestionably Alarming Signs': New Data Confirms Earth Just Had Hottest Decade on Record

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  Published 16th Jan 2020
• 'We Need Everyone in the Streets': More Than 180 Events Planned Across US to Protest Trump's March to War With Iran

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• Climate Watchdog Warns US Fracking Boom Leading to 30% Rise in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2025

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• "Stop Making a Killing at the Planet's Expense": Climate Advocates Call for Fossil Fuel Companies to Foot Australia Fires Bill

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• Trump Accused of 'Disgraceful Abdication' of Duty to Protect Earth for Proposal to Neuter Landmark Environmental Law

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• 'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• More Than One Billion Animals Killed in Australia Wildfires Called a 'Very Conservative' Estimate | Chris Dickman of the University of Sydney said "without any doubt at all" the animal death toll has exceeded one billion.

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• 'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse

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  Published 7th Jan 2020
• 'Entire Species Are Being Wiped Out': Ecologists Say Half a Billion Animals May Have Been Killed by Australia Wildfires

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  Published 2nd Jan 2020
• Sanders Vows to Create National Clean Drinking Water Standards to End Corporate Contamination

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  Published 1st Jan 2020
• Greta Thunberg Offers Advice to Young People, Dismisses Climate-Denying Politicians in BBC Radio Program

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• 'Unprecedented National Crisis': Australians Flee to the Water as Fires Consume Coastal Town on Southern Coast in Victoria

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  Published 31st Dec 2019
• A Call to Action as World is Rapidly Depleting Essential Groundwater | We are rapidly depleting a relatively non-renewable natural resource that is essential for our survival. And the climate crisis is making it worse.

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  Published 30th Dec 2019
• Calling Him Only 2020 Candidate Whose Plan 'Can Save Our Planet,' US Youth Climate Strike Leaders Endorse Bernie Sanders for President

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  Published 8th Dec 2019
• Trump's Climate Recklessness Is Grounds for Impeachment - Despite the clear warning signs the worse is yet to come, Trump is shredding regulatory standards designed by law to curb the emission. His monarchical tyranny is of the kind that the nation's founders feared most.

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  Published 29th Nov 2019
• 'The Law Is on Our Side': Extinction Rebellion Celebrates Dropped Charges Against 105 Climate Activists

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Coal Knew Too: Explosive Report Shows Industry Was Aware of Climate Threat as Far Back as 1966

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• While Warning of Nazi-Like Fascism and Corporate Crimes, Pope Francis Proposes Adding 'Ecological Sin' to Church Teachings

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  Published 17th Nov 2019
• Putting 'Health of All Species' in Danger, Trump EPA Proposal Guts Restrictions on Toxic Herbicide Linked to Birth Defects - "The pro-industry zealots now running the EPA's pesticide office are making a mockery of science & eliminating key safety measures, all for company profits."

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  Published 16th Nov 2019
• 'Beginning of the End of Climate-Wrecking Fossil Fuel Finance': World's Largest Public Bank Ditches Oil and Coal -- Climate activists celebrated Thursday the decision of the European Investment Bank to stop funding most oil and coal projects by 2021

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  Published 15th Nov 2019
• New Analysis Shows Billionaires' Dream of Space Tourism Would Be Disaster for Emissions, Climate Crisis

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  Published 14th Nov 2019
• The Greatest Scam in History: Science failed to have the necessary impact in significant part because of disinformation promoted by the major fossil-fuel companies, which have succeeded in diverting attention from climate change and successfully blocking meaningful action.

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  Published 12th Nov 2019
• Keystone Pipeline Does as Experts Predicted, Spills 383,000 Gallons of Oil in North Dakota

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  Published 31st Oct 2019
• Scientists Demand 'Paradigm Shift' After Study Shows 'Frightening' Decline of Insects and Spiders

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  Published 31st Oct 2019
• 'We Should Be Worried': Study Confirms Fear That Intense Ocean Acidification Portends Ecological Collapse

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  Published 24th Oct 2019
• 'What a Disgrace': Bernie Sanders Slams Trump Administration for Saying Climate Crisis Excluded From G7 Agenda. "Not only is Trump using the powers of the presidency to enrich himself, which is blatantly unconstitutional. He is ignoring a massive international crisis that threatens humanity."

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  Published 17th Oct 2019
• After Shell CEO Claims 'We Have No Choice' But to Invest in Fossil Fuels, McKibben Says, 'We Have No Choice But to Try and Stop Them' - With "overwhelming evidence that we are on the brink of climate and ecological collapse," executive's comment elicits intense rebuke

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  Published 16th Oct 2019
• 'How Dare You!': Greta Thunberg Rages at 'Fairytales of Eternal Economic Growth' at UN Climate Summit: "Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money."

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  Published 24th Sep 2019
• If a House Is on Fire, You Don't Add Fuel': 530 Groups Back Call to Rapidly Phase Out Fossil Fuels Worldwide: Widespread support for the Lofoten Declaration comes as world leaders meet in NYC for the U.N. Climate Action Summit

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  Published 24th Sep 2019
• 'Because Business as Usual Is a Death Sentence': Youth Climate Strikers in Their Own Words

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• 'Students Have Led and We Must Follow': Thousands of Scientists From 40 Nations Join Global Climate Strike

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• Sanders Vows, If Elected, to Pursue Criminal Charges Against Fossil Fuel CEOs for Knowingly 'Destroying the Planet': "They knew that it was real. Their own scientists told them that it was real. What do you do to people who lied in a very bold-faced way, lied to the American people?"

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  Published 20th Sep 2019
• 'Young People Are Correct to Be Outraged': Seattle City Council Urges Public Schools to Let Students Join Global Climate Strike On Sept. 20

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  Published 17th Sep 2019
• German Study: Alarming Levels of Dangerous Plastics in Children's Bodies

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  Published 15th Sep 2019
• To Critics Who Say Climate Action Is 'Too Expensive,' Greta Thunberg Responds: 'If We Can Save the Banks, We Can Save the World'

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  Published 10th Sep 2019
• 'World Has Never Seen a Threat to Human Rights of This Scope,' UN Rights Chief Says of Climate Emergency

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  Published 9th Sep 2019
• 'That Corruption Needs to End': Biden Urged to Cancel Fundraiser With Fossil Fuel Executive Day After Climate Crisis Forum - "If Biden is serious about taking on the power of the fossil fuel lobby, why is he going to a fundraiser hosted by the co-founder of a natural gas company?"

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  Published 5th Sep 2019
• Because 'A World Without Insects Is Not Worth Living In,' Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate

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  Published 5th Sep 2019
• Leaked UN Draft Report Warns Rising, Warming Oceans 'Poised to Unleash Misery' Worldwide: The assessment details anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and displacement due to rising seas

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  Published 3rd Sep 2019
• 'If Environment Were a Bank,' says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already'

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  Published 3rd Sep 2019
• 'Everyone Should Mobilize': Climate Leaders Urge Massive Turnout for Global Climate Strikes

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  Published 2nd Sep 2019
• 'Sociopathic Disregard for Our Future': Trump EPA Set to Gut Restrictions on Planet-Warming Methane Emissions

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  Published 2nd Sep 2019
• Phoenix Voters 'Say Yes to the Future,' Rejecting Koch-Backed Effort to Ban Light Rail Expansion in Least Sustainable US City

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  Published 29th Aug 2019
• Refusing to Take Real Climate Action, Trump Suggests Using Nukes to Stop Hurricanes - "What if instead of dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes we just passed a Green New Deal and made fossil fuel billionaires pay for the devastation of climate disasters?"

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  Published 27th Aug 2019
• Brazil's Bolsonaro—Outspoken Proponent of Deforestation—Denounced as 'Sick' and 'Pathetic' for Blaming Amazon Forest Fires on NGOs: "We will not watch our future burn away," said climate campaigners

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  Published 22nd Aug 2019
• #PrayForAmazonia Goes Viral as Twitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest - "It's been burning for 3 wks! We are on the verge of losing it completely if it isn't put out. Loss of trees, biodiversity is what is accelerating climate change."

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests - "We've seen a lot of success at the state level, particularly starting with Oklahoma in 2017," said Derrick Morgan of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• Fracking Boom in US and Canada Largely to Blame for 'Massive' Rise of Global Methane Levels: Study

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  Published 15th Aug 2019
• Farmers Hit Back as USDA Chief Sonny Perdue Mocks Those Harmed by Trump Trade War as 'Whiners'

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  Published 13th Aug 2019
• 'Gold Over Life, Literally': How Trump Forced Reversal on Mining Project EPA Scientists Warn Could Destroy Alaskan Salmon Ecosystem

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  Published 10th Aug 2019
• Study of Massive Smoke Cloud From 2017 Wildfires Offers Terrifying Hint of How Even Small Nuclear War Would Escalate Climate Crises

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  Published 9th Aug 2019
• RightToKnow publishes Monsanto(Bayer) documents, regarding spying & intimidation

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  Published 9th Aug 2019
• Alarming' Explosion of Toxic Pesticide Use Causing Insect Apocalypse in United States: Study

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  Published 7th Aug 2019
• New Study: U.S. Agriculture 48 Times More Toxic to Insects Than 25 Years Ago. Neonicotinoid pesticides account for 92 percent of toxicity increase

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  Published 7th Aug 2019
• Top Scientist Says He Quit USDA Because Trump Admin Tried to Bury His Study on Climate and Nutrition: "Once again, the Trump admin is silencing our scientists."

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  Published 6th Aug 2019
• Shifting Subsidies to Renewable Energy Instead of Propping Up Fossil Fuel Giants Would Prompt 'Clean Energy Revolution', Study Shows. Fossil fuel companies receive more than $370 billion per year in subsidies from world governments. Renewable energy companies are given only $100 billion yearly.

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  Published 4th Aug 2019
• 'Our Pressure Is Working' Says Sunrise Movement as CNN and MSNBC Announce Climate Events for 2020 White House Hopefuls

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  Published 29th Jul 2019
• While Global Temps Soared, Study Shows US Media Coverage of Right-Wing Think Tanks' Climate Lies Actually Rose Over Past 5 Years: "The media should not give these organizations a platform, and if they must cover them, do a better job of alerting readers and viewers who is funding them."

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  Published 26th Jul 2019
• It's Just Good Business: Even Red States Are Dumping Coal for Solar

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  Published 23rd Jul 2019
• Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects, New Study Shows

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  Published 21st Jul 2019
• 'A Total Disgrace': Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children

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  Published 19th Jul 2019
• Greta Thunberg: I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

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  Published 19th Jul 2019
• Super-Charged by Climate Crisis, New Study Warns of 'Killer Heat' Set to Overtake US: "If we wish to spare people in the United States and around the world the mortal dangers of extreme and relentless heat, there is little time to do so and little room for half measures."

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  Published 17th Jul 2019
• Days Before Hurricane Expected to Hit New Orleans, City Endures 10 Inches of Rain as Mississippi River Swells - "Overlapping extreme-weather events aren't just a New Orleans problem."

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  Published 11th Jul 2019
• USDA Indefinitely Suspends Honey Bee Tracking Survey as States Get Approval to Use Bee-Killing Pesticide

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  Published 9th Jul 2019
• A "staggering" new warning from a top UN official that climate crisis-related disasters are now occurring at the rate of one per week, with developing nations disproportionately at risk, provoked calls for immediate global action to combat the human-caused climate emergency.

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  Published 8th Jul 2019
• 'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History

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  Published 5th Jul 2019
• Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody's Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis: "There is no denying it: The longer we wait to take bold action to curb emissions, the higher the costs will be for all of us."

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  Published 5th Jul 2019
• 'Good News': Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate

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  Published 5th Jul 2019
• Trump Wants to Remove Federal Protections for Wolves: Idaho’s Example Shows Why This Is a Terrible Idea

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  Published 5th Jul 2019
• EPA Urged to Put Public Health Over Monsanto Profits by Banning Cancer-Linked Glyphosate: "This dangerous herbicide causes serious health risks, including cancer, and threatens our environment."

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  Published 2nd Jul 2019
• On the Hottest Day in the History of France, Police Tear-Gas Peaceful Climate Change Protesters in Paris

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  Published 30th Jun 2019
• "I'm Not Willing to Do That": Trump Says He Won't Take Climate Action Because It Would Threaten Corporate Profits: The U.S. president reportedly worked to weaken G20 commitment to fighting climate crisis during summit in Osaka, Japan

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  Published 30th Jun 2019
• With 2019 Predicted to Be Among Planet's Hottest Years, France's 114º Heat Is 'Absolutely Consistent' With Warnings of Climate Crisis

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  Published 28th Jun 2019
• 'We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!': Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down Massive Coal Mine in Germany

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  Published 23rd Jun 2019
• 'This Should Scare the Hell Out of You': Photo of Greenland Sled Dog Teams Walking on Melted Water Goes Viral

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  Published 19th Jun 2019
• Even If All US Drilling and Fracking Halts Today, Warns New Report, 'Flood of Toxic Waste Streams' Will Grow for Decades

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  Published 19th Jun 2019
• Adding to Planetary Alarm Bells, Top US Finance Official Warns Climate Crisis a Recipe for Global Economic Collapse

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  Published 13th Jun 2019
• 6 Reasons Impossible Burger's CEO is Wrong About GMO Soy: It's time to demand more from the food we eat, better protection from our regulators and a higher level of truthfulness and transparency from food brands

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  Published 12th Jun 2019
• As Study Shows Methane Emissions 'Vastly Underestimated,' Warnings That US Fracked Gas Export Bonanza Imperils Planetary Stability: "Science confirms that gas is a climate killer."

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  Published 7th Jun 2019
• 'This Is an Emergency. We Need the Democrats to Act Like It': Outrage as DNC Announces It Will Not Host 2020 Debate on Climate Crisis (Common Dreams)

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  Published 6th Jun 2019
• 'Single Most Important Stat on the Planet': Alarm as Atmospheric CO2 Soars to 'Legit Scary' Record High: "We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases."

  (commondreams.org)

  Published 6th Jun 2019
• Extreme Flooding Across Midwest 'Exactly In Line' With Scientific Warnings of Climate Crisis: Experts

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  Published 5th Jun 2019
• 'Gas Is a Loser and It's Time to Move On': OCI Report Debunks Myth That Natural Gas Can Help Fight Climate Crisis

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  Published 31st May 2019
• 'Blatant Attempt to Politicize the Science': Trump Reportedly Moving to End Long-Term Studies of Climate Crisis - "The Trump gang is attacking the scientific process itself in an attempt to prop up fossil fuel industries, delay inevitable action, & run the carbon bubble as long as it will last."

  (commondreams.org)

  Published 28th May 2019