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Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought

Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought

7 May 2018

Tourism is being blamed for 8 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and it emits more every year – making it harder to stop dangerous climate change
Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill

21 November 2017

Last week the Keystone pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of oil. This week Nebraska decided to allow the Keystone XL extension to be built right through the state
Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy

21 November 2017

While the US tried to promote “clean coal” at the COP23 Bonn climate meeting, other countries called for the dirty fossil fuel to be rapidly phased out

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