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A Landmark Report Calls for Stopping New Fossil Fuel Development Next Year
While oil and gas companies ramp up the PR around their net zero commitments and try to convince us that fossil fuels can coexist with climate action, the science has long been clear that we need to quit dirty fuels pretty much immediately. One of the world’s biggest energy arbiters now says it agrees.
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Citizen App Set Off Hunt for Person Falsely Accused of Starting California Brush Fire
California’s wildfire season is already underway (well, it may never have actually stopped), and state investigators are looking into what ignited a 540 hectare brush fire that’s currently burning through Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades and Topanga Canyon neighbourhoods.
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40,000-Year-Old Rock Art Is Being Destroyed Due to Climate Change
The climate crisis has taken so much away from us that we’ll never get back: people, places, wildlife, even languages. Now, it’s destroying some of the oldest art on Earth, new research led by Griffith University shows.
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It’s Raining Oil in St. Croix for the Second Time This Year
A refinery on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands has shut down temporarily after oil rained down on surrounding residents’ homes and cisterns used to collect drinking water. Astonishingly enough, this nightmarish situation isn’t even new; it’s just the most recent incident in the past three months and has added to…