Climate change and Indonesia’s peatland and forest fires were discussed by United States President Barack Obama and Indonesian President Joko Widodo during their bilateral meeting at the White House today.
Burning Arctic oil is inconsistent with plans to limit climate change to 2 degrees Celsius, and President Obama's approval of Shell's drilling plans threatens to undermine his climate legacy.
Today the Obama administration granted Shell the final approval for the company’s plans to drill for oil in the Alaskan Arctic—one of the most ecologically important places in the world.
August 3, 2015, Washington, DC—Today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final Clean Power Plan, aiming to reduce carbon pollution from power plants across the nation.
Turns out ExxonMobil, one of the world’s worst climate polluters, has known about the dangers of climate change since 1981. Yet the oil giant continues to be a major funder of climate change denial today.
For years the gas industry has advertised “clean, reliable natural gas” as a boon for the environment and a viable alternative to coal when it comes to reducing greenhouse gases from the generation of electricity. Recent studies show it's just as bad, if not worse.
For years, scientists have warned us that climate change will lead to bigger, more intense, and more frequent storms. But it turns out they're not the only ones who knew.
There’s no more debating if climate change is a reality. Scientists agree: the world is getting warmer and human activity is largely responsible. Today, our planet is hotter than it has been in 2,000 years, and on track to grower hotter than it’s been in two million years.
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