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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs fracking all we have to worry about?As protests against fracking rage on, are protesters ignoring a much greater industrial threat to the British countryside?
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Published in: HomeWeather and humanity remain unpredictableAs a new IPCC assessment is being prepared, head climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri is an optimist - but human...
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Published in: HomeNo control panelStruck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the...
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Published in: HomeThe great tide of 31 January 1953An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia BurningWhen the rice harvest season finishes in a few weeks, fields in India will turn black as farmers burn thousands of...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of myth making: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'Myths of human survival that evade questions of gender, race and social relations, won’t help us adapt in a world...
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Published in: HomeLatest climate signs should jolt leaders into global actionAlthough climate change has seemingly disappeared from the global political agenda, recent signs show we're not that...
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Published in: HomeIsaac: the intemperate bastardThe latest messages from our columnist and friend in New Orleans
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Published in: HomeThe death of a controversy?
Non-news about a "controversy" on life support, an inconsequential U-turn and the unfortunate fact that...
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Published in: openEconomyChina’s big bet on green industry – and how it might green the world
After the failure of Durban, a promising plan B to reducing carbon emissions rests upon green development industrial...
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Published in: HomeWater in the Arab SpringWater scarcity in the Middle East & North Africa is at the root of the region’s uprisings. In the coming years, it...
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Published in: HomeThreat to opportunity: the new logic of climate policy
In the clutches of recession, the Ryanair chief executive may now breathe a sigh of relief as binding emission...
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Published in: HomeGiant strides or fairy footsteps
How much progress can be made in tackling climate change without a global deal?
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Published in: openEconomyA low carbon future needs an industrial policy
The UK Chancellor (Finance Minister), George Osborne, presented plans for taxation and spending that pay homage to...
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Published in: HomeAfter Cancún: shifting climate gears
The loss of momentum in climate diplomacy reflects deep flaws in the way campaigners understand and frame climate...
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Published in: oDRLaid low by the heatThe Russian heat wave has been going on for weeks. From her dacha Elena Strelnikova gives a wry account of officials...
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Published in: openEconomyTrust the people on climate change
While inconsistency with respect to climate change runs so deep in government policy, how can we expect people to...
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Published in: HomeCopenhagen: a successful failure
The Copenhagen climate-change summit has been widely portrayed as a failure. But in a deeper and longer perspective...
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Published in: HomeDoes environmentalism destroy the world?
openDemocracy and Resurgence launch the Dictionary of Ethical Politics to explore how our political concepts can...
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Published in: HomeCan consumers save our climate?
After Copenhagen, can market forces – and consumers in particular – help address global warming? In an article...
