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As the planet heats up, big companies balk on their climate pledges

At a crucial moment in the fight against climate change, the world’s biggest companies are not delivering on their commitments to curb warming.
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Our Fragile Earth: How close are we to climate catastrophe?

Lessons from past eras when Earth was a hothouse or a snowball tell us whether we are doomed by climate change or still have time to prevent that fate.

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A clash over degrees: How hot should nations allow the earth to get?

The mantra has been: Limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or risk climate catastrophe. But at COP27, there are hints of backsliding.
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Beyond catastrophe: A new climate reality is coming into view

There's plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we're headed toward a less apocalyptic future.
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Amid kaleidoscopic problems, climate change is still the big picture

John Lennon said life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. We cannot let climate catastrophe be what happens to us while we’re busy trying to cope with other emergencies.

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U.S.A. vs. China vs. climate change

Alfred McCoy argues that American global hegemony will end around 2030, replaced by China as world leader, but Chinese hegemony will last only for about 20 years - and that by 2050, climate change will have brought environmental catastrophe to both countries, and the rest of the world

Climate change: Southern California’s worst-case wildfire scenario

Climate change: Southern California’s worst-case wildfire scenario

Every year, climate change makes a "catastrophic" fire like this one more and more likely.
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