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Global carbon dioxide concentrations reached record levels in 2023, with a surge of 11.4% during the past two decades alone, a new UN report finds.

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Here’s a tiny question. In your darker moments — do you wonder if, well, in some elemental sense, the world around us is ending? That things have changed? Doesn’t something deep down in your gut…

1 in 3 people on Planet Earth are living through a record-breaking heatwave right now. Thailand has just recorded the hottest temperatures it’s ever had — 45ºC (113ºF) — and a record breaking heat…

There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: Whew. Sound like a big deal? It should. If it doesn’t…

They’re calling it the first global heatwave. In China, the temperature reached 52.2ºC (126ºF), shattering records. In Arizona, it was 47ºC (116ºF). In California, 128ºF (53.33ºC). In the Persian…

Extinction summer. Four great heat domes stretch across the globe. The planet, they say, is burning, and the oceans boiling. And people are startled, shocked, and bewildered. This fast? This hard…

It’s been an apocalyptic summer. Our first Extinction Summer. Look around and tell me things are going well. Sicily. Greece. Canada. On fire. Oceans, boiling. Those orange skies over Manhattan were…

How do you feel looking around the world? Depressed, anxious, bewildered, bereft? We have the pathetic spectacle of the first criminal trial of an American President — and the current front runner…

Ahead of your annual Thanksgiving tête-à-tête with your right-wing uncle, Matthew Klippenstein reads Bjorn Lomborg’s 'False Alarm' so you don’t have to.

Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best

Bob Ward reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, False Alarm, finding the misuse of outdated, concocted and misinterpreted numbers on the costs of climate action and concluding that the book’s central claim that the ‘optimal’ level of global warming by 2100 would be 3.75˚C was completely out-of-date before it was even published.

Debunking the claims of the climate-change skeptic.

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B.C.’s energy regulator has the power to grant such exemptions — without notifying the public. Experts raise alarm about the process, saying the regulator is playing soft with fossil fuel companies

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This special investigation between Canada’s National Observer and DeSmog was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action and TRACE Foundation. “No more carbon apocalypse-mongering,” Jordan Peterson told an audience of thousands in February at a global conservative conference in London known as the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC). The crowd applauded loudly. The world is […]

Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.

President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

Elon Musk's new Department of Government Efficiency may have set its sights on stripping down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

President-elect Trump vowed to promote fossil fuels, weaken pollution regulations and reverse Biden administration climate efforts

President Donald Trump has attacked nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort to confront rising temperatures.