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California just banned the sale of gasoline powered backup generators, lawn mowers, small gas powered fire fighting pumps, and other small stationary engines, as part of their drive to reduce CO2 emissions.

Eighteen-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg has condemned global leaders for their lack of action to address the climate crisis. The outspoken activist has dismissed their words as empty talk. [...]

On Friday, youths in the Philippines organized demonstrations to raise awareness about the climate crisis. They joined millions of others across the globe under the ongoing international Fridays for Future movement. Several...

A newly released assessment by Climate Action Tracker (CAT) shows that nearly every nation has failed to meet a major climate goal. The goal in question is to keep global warming from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...

As if it’s not bad enough that the world is suffering from weather extremes and other climate-related disasters, last year a record 227 environmental defenders died for protecting the planet, according to an annual...

According to SMH Reporter Nick O'Malley, Trump's victory in 2016 created a perception of "boom and bust" commitment to climate action. But Chinese leaders do not have to face elections, so China's climate commitment to climate...

There is no even theoretically feasible engineering path to affordable renewable energy, but Biden's new White House Council of Environmental Quality hire Jane Flegal thinks she can make climate action affordable and politically...

Billionaire Richard Branson appears to be attempting to build his presence as a major global influencer on climate policy, but his new climate change club does not appear to have a lot of direct financial support.

According to a German think tank, most people are not aware of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, with a majority of people even in European countries believing that the modern warming is at least partially...

According to the Washington Post, Biden plans to impose trade tariffs on Australia unless Australia embraces a net zero carbon plan and curbs Australia's CO2 intensive energy export industry.

"Buddha Would be Green": The Dalai Lama claims urgent action is required to prevent climate change from impacting Tibet and the rest of the world.

In the midst of an ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, with many nations struggling with their response, the WHO has decided to focus their efforts on combatting climate change.

6000 years ago during the Holocene Climatic Optimum the Sahara desert was covered in lakes and vegetation. All this went away when the world cooled. Some of the poorest people in the world, descendants of survivors of the...

According to a new PLOS One study, efforts to mitigate global warming will not yield a net economic benefit until the next century.

An eclectic collection of goals; China's "Position Paper of the People's Republic of China On the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations" lists China's goals as world peace, nuclear disarmament, climate action, and for people...