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2025[edit | edit source]
The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded, Eric Holthaus, theguardian.com (Jan 09, 2025)
2024[edit | edit source]
- ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges, theguardian.com (Sep 27, 2024)
- Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink, theguardian.com (Jul 25, 2024)
- ‘Game-changing’: Vermont becomes first state to require big oil to pay for climate damages, theguardian.com (May 31, 2024)
- Young Alaskans sue state over fossil fuel project they claim violates their rights, theguardian.com (May 23, 2024)
- Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need, theguardian.com (Apr 17, 2024)
- University of Florida student senate passes ‘green new deal’, theguardian.com (Feb 21, 2024)
- These Are the Climate Grannies. They’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Protect Their Grandchildren, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 03, 2024)
- The sinking Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles was forced to pack up and move to safer ground. Many more US towns may soon need to follow in their footsteps, bbc.com/future (Jan 30, 2024)
- Climate change could slash Colorado stream flows, with effects across the US West: report, thehill.com (Jan 08, 2024)
- Once Known for Its Pollution, Pittsburgh Becomes a Poster Child for Climate Consciousness, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 08, 2024)
- It’s 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters, Sammy Roth, latimes.com (Jan 04, 2024)
- Judge Sends Landmark Youth Climate Case to Trial, theenergymix.com (Jan 01, 2024)
2023[edit | edit source]
- ‘I thought we had more time’: how motherhood spurred a New Yorker’s fight against fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Dec 19, 2023)
- Climate migration may become "abandonment" as people flee flooding, axios.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Massachusetts Just Took a Big Step Away from Natural Gas. Which States Might Follow?, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 07, 2023)
- Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- Opinion: Climate change isn’t just about emissions. We’re ignoring a huge part of the fight, latimes.com (Oct 15, 2023)
- Climate: California governor signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions, lemonde.fr/en (Oct 08, 2023)
- Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 05, 2023)
- Biden uses executive power to create New Deal-style American Climate Corps, theguardian.com (Sep 20, 2023)
- California sues oil companies claiming they downplayed the risk of fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2023)
- US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 14, 2023)
- Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future, nexusmedianews.com (Aug 24, 2023)
- 40 percent of US climate emissions attributed to richest households: study, thehill.com (Aug 17, 2023)
- Youth wins climate case against U.S. state of Montana in first-of-its-kind legal ruling, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2023) — by Liz Kimbrough
- More Massachusetts cities seek to ban gas, citing lack of diversity in pilot and urgency of climate crisis, energynews.us (Aug 03, 2023)
- New grant program asks residents to ‘throw shade,’ foster climate resiliency in Flint, flintbeat.com (Aug 02, 2023)
- ‘My life and my home’: young people start to testify at historic US climate trial, The Guardian (Jun 13, 2023) — The plaintiffs note that Montana’s constitution pledges a healthy environment ‘for present and future generations’
- ‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 07, 2023)
- The Green Jobs Boom Is Benefiting the People Who Need It Most, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 10, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- Climate change: Landmark US bill clears Senate hurdle, BBC News (Aug 08, 2022)
- Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
- Data may be Colorado’s best bet to mitigate increasing wildfire risk on the Front Range, Climate Central (Jan 23, 2022)
2021[edit | edit source]
- Gen Z on how to save the world: young climate activists speak out, The Guardian (Oct 17, 2021) — Features activists from Philippines, Australia, India, US, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Kenya and Canada
- 'I'm hopeful': Jerome Foster, the 18-year-old helping to craft US climate policy, The Guardian (Apr 13, 2021)
