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28 June 2020
A disastrous summer in the Arctic
Record heat is hastening the dissolution of Siberian permafrost, perennially frozen ground that, when thawed, unleashes greenhouse gases and dramatically destabilizes the land.
In her memoir, the Cop delegate draws parallels with her violent childhood home and the imbalance of power in global summits.
Alexandre Saraiva gives alert on organised crime in region ahead of anniversary of killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira.
The Supreme Court has taken a brazen anti-regulatory turn. It’s our planet and health that will suffer.
“We need to understand who is harmed by an economy that’s based on fossil fuels and toxic chemicals.”
Negotiations are underway for a global plastics treaty and parties differ on the role of recycling.
Delegates should push for a treaty that takes a full-lifecycle approach to plastic pollution.
Fracking companies used 282 million pounds of hazardous chemicals that should have been regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act from 2014 to 2021.
President Biden continues to deploy conventional tactics against the highly unconventional threat of climate change.