One of ExxonMobil’s top lobbyists has been caught on camera revealing what many critics and environmentalists have claimed all along: That the oil giant continues to fight for its profits over the health of the planet, despite public relations campaigns claiming to back measures like a carbon tax to address …
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I came face to face with the Doomsday Glacier (a.k.a. Thwaites glacier) in 2019, on a trip to Antarctica aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long icebreaker operated by the National Science Foundation. I had dubbed the Florida-sized slab of ice its nickname in an article I’d written a few …
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Naomie Harris and Brian Eno have joined forces for Extinction Emergency, and Why We Must Act Now, an animated short about the climate and ecological crisis. Harris does voiceover for the explainer, while Eno provides the score. “You are an amazing human being,” the actress says in the opening of …
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A federal appeals court has struck down a landmark climate change lawsuit brought against the federal government on behalf of children and young adults. On Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco tossed the suit in a two-to-one majority decision, upending an earlier district court ruling …
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A few years ago, when I told strangers that I wrote about the climate crisis, they often looked at me as if I’d just told them I wrote about the mating habits of porcupines. Interesting in a freakish sorta way, maybe, but far from urgent. That’s changed. Now, even in …
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