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Ecologists are estimating that nearly half a billion animals have been killed in Australia's unprecedented and catastrophic wildfires, which have sparked a continent-wide crisis forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in desperation.
The climate crisis has long been escalating. We’ve reached a new level of existential threat. Now, some elements of the right wing are using the crisis to advance eco-fascism—an ideology that sees climate change migrants as a threat to “our America.
Even models in the 1970s accurately predicted the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise
Of the two New Deals -- the one from the 1930s and today’s Green one -- only the first was treated in its time as a response to the economic equivalent of a category five hurricane.
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AOC, on her first international trip as a lawmaker, delivers the keynote address at the C40 summit on climate crisis, a global gathering of mayors, lawmakers and city administrators
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