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FactCheck: Is this a green revolution?
Boris Johnson’s environment strategy has been billed as a “green industrial revolution”. But only a quarter of the £12bn of government spending announced this week is really new money.
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US election: What a Trump or Biden victory means for the climate
What are the climate implications of a Trump or Biden presidency?
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Latest COVID-19 science updates: coronavirus climate impact, dynamic lockdown and airborne droplets
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
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The Channel 4 News Climate Debate
Channel 4 News hosts the first ever leaders’ debate on the climate crisis. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, the Green Party’s co-leader Sian Berry and Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price will all be in the studio. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage did not…
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Carbon offsets: can you really pay off your carbon footprint?
Can we pay someone else to take responsibility for our carbon emissions?
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Paris riots: At least 80 injured as police clash with protesters
Demonstrators set fire to cars and barricades in the middle of the Champs-Elysées, with police firing tear gas and water cannons in response. President Macron has refused to back down over the tax increases, insisting it’s part of his strategy to combat climate change.
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Death toll rises in California as wildfires continue to rage
The death toll of the wild fire in Paradise in northern California has risen to 23, making it one of the deadliest fires in the state’s history. Two people have also died in a separate fire to the south near Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and thousands of homes destroyed…
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Quarter of a million people flee California wildfires
Three wildfires across California have caused massive destruction and claimed at least nine lives in the north of the state.
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Climate change: How can governments avert “Hothouse earth”?
It sounds like the title of a disaster movie, but a “Hothouse Earth” is what a group of climate scientists say we could be heading for – even if current carbon reduction targets are met.
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Scores dead as Japan suffers extreme weather
Up to 76 people are feared to have died and scores are missing amid unprecedented floods in western Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says rescue efforts are a “race against time”.
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Former EPA boss: Trump’s ‘denial’ of climate change is ‘dangerous’
Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman – who was head of the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Bush – says President Trump’s ‘denial’ of climate change is ‘dangerous for our future’.
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Does climate change mean much more extreme weather?
Just days before this massive storm slammed into Texas, President Trump scrapped a raft of federal flood protection standards which Barack Obama had introduced: measures which would legally have to take into account the impact of climate change.
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Al Gore: ‘I thought Trump would come to his senses’ on Paris Agreement
One man who is in no doubt about the science and has been shouting about climate change for decades is the former Vice President of America, Al Gore. I caught up with Mr Gore ahead of the film’s premier at London’s Somerset House and began by asking him how he persuades climate skeptics like the…
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Government launches energy review over cost and climate change
How to cut down energy bills while still meeting targets on climate change? That’s the challenge for a new independent review tasked with examining ways of controlling costs.
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Scientists warn of extreme weather threat to Europe
Extreme weather is one of the biggest global threats to human health, scientists have warned.