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31 July 2019
Tories look in wrong place for climate solutions
Extreme heat caused misery for those stuck in blisteringly hot workplaces as well as thousands of stranded passengers, as our poorly funded infrastructure ground to a halt
19 June 2019
Stop climate change - fight for socialist change
In recent months tens of thousands of students have walked out of schools
15 May 2019
Profit system rapidly destroying environment
On 6 May, one of the most ambitious reports into climate change ever undertaken - the United Nation's Global Assessment Report on biodiversity - was released.
12 April 2019
Thousands of people took part in the bridge-blocking protests called by Extinction Rebellion over a series of weekends in November 2018
28 November 2018
We need system change to halt climate change
Was there ever a starker example of the destructive and unplanned nature of capitalism than the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings?
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
16 November 2018
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
31 October 2018
60% of wildlife wiped out - urgent action needed to save planet
Since 1970, 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have been wiped out due to deforestation, farming techniques and other human activity.
10 October 2018
12 years to halt irreversible climate disaster. Capitalism's time is up
Real and immediate horrors face humanity even if the world limits global warming to the current target of 2°C.
29 August 2018
Nationalise the energy giants to combat global warming
The oldest, thickest, most frozen sea ice in the arctic, to the north of Greenland, remains frozen all year. But this year it has broken away - twice! This has never been seen before.
25 July 2018
Plastic waste - capitalism's Frankenstein monster
Plastic waste is now penetrating every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and including the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth.
11 July 2018
Britain bakes as water pipelines leak
June was the driest month on record in south east and central southern England, while Scotland recorded its highest ever temperature of 33.2C in Motherwell.
20 June 2018
No to Trump's climate change chaos
Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the non-binding Paris climate change agreement was not only a major defeat for even this weak attempt at tackling global warming, but also an example of his continuation of protectionist and isolationist policies.
22 November 2017
Carbon dioxide hits 800,000-year high: end profit-driven pollution
The feared surge in global warming gases in 2016 has been confirmed - researchers found the highest atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in 800,000 years
22 November 2017
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6 September 2017
Extreme weather events and global warming
Is global warming worsening events such as the monsoon floods in Northern India and Bangladesh and Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico?
28 June 2017
Trump and the fossil fuel corporations - a lethal combination for the planet
On 1 June 2017 the world's TV cameras broadcast live as President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord
7 December 2016
Victory at Standing Rock: US authorities agree to re-route oil pipeline
US authorities (subject to possible appeal) have agreed to abandon the planned oil pipeline through Standing Rock, North Dakota, after a months-long standoff between protesters and armed police.
23 November 2016
UN climate change summit: more hot air from Marrakech
Trump's opposition to the already-insufficient Paris Agreement will allow other major polluters like China even more room to ignore it.
25 May 2016
Canada: fire devastates Fort McMurray
Capitalism equals environmental destruction: On the evening of 3 May the entire 94,000 population of Fort McMurray was ordered to leave as an out-of-control wildfire swept towards it.
25 May 2016
It was recently revealed that the Boris Johnson administration buried a report on London's air pollution problem. It showed that 433 primary schools in London are in places where levels of nitrogen oxides, gases that may cause acute respiratory illnesses, surpassed EU safety limits.
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