Climate Change
Unveiling Big Oil’s Campaign of Lies
An explosive hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget has unveiled more details of Big Oil’s campaign to block climate action.
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Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as...
Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of Air Pollution Foundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests
By Dharna Noor
Nov12, 2024
Major oil companies, including Shell...
Newly Unearthed Docs Show Big Oil Knew of Climate Dangers as...
"Big Oil has been running public affairs campaigns to downplay the dangers of its products just as long as Big Tobacco," said one expert.
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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist
Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree
Damian Carrington, Environment editor
Feb 4, 2025
The pace of global heating...
‘The riskometer has been going up all the time’: Tim Lenton...
By Jessica McKenzie
March 12, 2025
The following conversation with Tim Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and lead...
US could see return of acid rain due to Trump’s rollbacks,...
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’
by Oliver Milman
Mar 27, 2025
The US could be plunged back into...
The Trump administration sets the stage for large-scale federal worker layoffs...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
February 27, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is facing a generational realignment as President Donald Trump directs federal agencies to develop plans for eliminating...
Trump officials fire 800 employees at weather forecasting and oceans agency
By Ella Nilsen and Tami Luhby, CNN
February 28, 2025
The Trump administration has its government-shrinking sights set on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where around 800 employees have been tapped...
The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble
by Zoë Schlanger
February 28, 2025
At 4 p.m. ET yesterday, Andrew Hazelton got a form email telling him his work as a hurricane modeler at...
Trump is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement (again), reversing U.S. climate...
By Nate Perez, Rachel Waldholz
January 21
President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement — again.
Under the international climate accord, first...