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A demonstration by Rainforest Action Network, Stop the Money Pipeline and Bank Track at COP26, Glasgow, Scotland

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Fix the Planet newsletter: When net zero means not zero

Is it possible for corporations to draw up better net-zero targets? Or should we be looking to scrap the term entirely?

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photographed while on an assignment for Indonesia?s largest coal mining company, South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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Six graphics that reveal what materials we consume – and what we waste

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Also picture very perfect

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Janez Potočnik interview: How a circular economy can help us go green

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Fashionable modern woman on landfill, consumerism versus pollution concept.

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How to cut material use in buildings, clothes, electronics and plastic

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The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

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The end of waste: The grand plan to build a truly circular economy

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Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

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Christopher Jackson interview: How geologists can fight climate change

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Climate fiction has come of age – and these fabulous books show why

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Climate fiction has come of age – and these fabulous books show why

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People walk past daffodils in Green Park in central London on March 26, 2021. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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UK's spring flowers are blooming a month early due to climate change

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devastating coral bleaching due to global warming. These corals are dying.

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Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear with 2°C of global warming

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This data image shows the monthly average sea surface temperature for May 2015. Between 2013 and 2016, a large mass of unusually warm ocean water--nicknamed the blob--dominated the North Pacific, indicated here by red, pink, and yellow colors signifying temperatures as much as three degrees Celsius (five degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average. Data are from the NASA Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) Analysis product.

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Extreme marine heatwaves are now normal for the world's oceans

Since 2014, more than half of the ocean surface across the globe has recorded temperatures considered extreme compared with a historical average

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The UK still won't say how much CO2 its Net Zero Strategy will save

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Svalbard glacier ice loss projected to roughly double by 2100

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Climate change made the past 7 years the warmest on record

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Record levels of greenhouse gas methane are a ‘fire alarm moment’

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