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Published in: HomeA different climate
Many new paths to climate action are being taken, with the global south in the forefront. Even modest support and...
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Published in: HomeClimate politics: a melting glacier...
A new political tone on climate change in Britain is matched by a breakthrough in understanding the retreat of...
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Published in: HomeA flooded future: Essex to the world
Two floods, two eras, two worlds. The contrast between 1953 and 2014 in southern England is a lesson both in class...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClimate - how UKIP and the Tory right will defeat themselves
Why are those so opposed to migration so blind to something that will cause it to increase so dramatically?
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Published in: ourNHSWhat climate change denier Owen Paterson needs to learn about science
The UK environment minister pretends global warming isn’t happening. Advisers should put a new report from Medact on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK is flooded in climate silence
The last time there were major floods in the UK, they were met with climate change marches and demands for action....
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Published in: Home2014, a climate emergency
The accelerating pace of extreme weather events is an acute challenge to political leaders.
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Published in: openSecuritySharing our future: how the world can avert climate chaos
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calculated a ‘budget’ for greenhouse gas emissions if...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDivestment and ending sponsorship - both tools of oil company stigmatisation
The campaign launched in the UK this month to get institutions to divest from fossil fuel companies is an easy...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo, Minister - you are not spending what is needed on flood defences
Last night, Owen Paterson, the UK Secretary of State for the Environment, claimed that he has not cut funding for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKValues, not just science, need to be central to the climate change debate
Too many environmental activists try to persuade people about climate change by dazzling them with research of the...
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Published in: HomeHow to deflate the carbon bubble
The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union...
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Published in: HomeThe IPCC and new climate paths
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a unique public service that produces valuable scientific...
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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: HomeThe great biofuel greenwash
The petroleum giants have been pushing a wave of biofuel advertising. But the nature of such fuel is complex, and...
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Published in: HomeWeather and humanity remain unpredictable
As 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 panel
Struck 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 1953
An 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 Burning
When 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...