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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named as Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2019, as the established magazine reports themselves. The shortlist of potential contenders for the title was wide and varied — ranging from President Donald Trump to the Hong Kong protesters currently embroiled in a prolonged struggle against Chinese authorities — but the 16-year-old Swedish environmentalist ...
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Brazilian president calls teen climate activist Greta Thunberg a brat
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of Indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. CBC | World News
Read More »Climate scientists struggle with cutting their own carbon footprints
Some climate scientists and activists are limiting their flying, their consumption of meat and their overall carbon footprints to avoid adding to the global warming they study. But that comes at a cost, and the issue divides the scientific community. CBC | World News
Read More »Greta Thunberg reaches Madrid for climate march
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid on Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. CBC | World News
Read More »Greta Thunberg reaches Madrid for climate march
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. CBC | World News
Read More »UN chief urges countries to stop ‘addiction to coal’ to tackle climate change
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asked countries at the opening Monday in Madrid of a two-week climate summit to decide whether they “really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?” CBC | World News
Read More »Global fossil fuel production on track to bust Paris climate targets
The world’s major fossil fuel producers are set to bust global environmental goals with excessive coal, oil and gas extraction in the next decade, the United Nations and research groups said on Wednesday in the latest warning over climate crisis. CBC | World News
Read More »David Attenborough reveals ‘huge shift’ in climate change ‘restoring Earth’s balance’
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH revealed there has been a huge shift in attitudes to sustainability in the waters surrounding Antarctica, which is “helping to restore Earth’s natural balance” by allowing the biogeochemical cycle of the natural world to thrive. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed
Read More »Scientists call for ‘population control’ amid climate crisis – critics slam ‘elitist’ idea
SCIENTISTS across the globe have declared a climate emergency and called for the world powers to take steps to “gradually reduce” the population to help avoid “untold suffering”. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »11,000 scientists sign declaration of climate emergency
Climate emergencies have been declared by countries like Canada, Portugal, Ireland and France, and in cities such as Paris, New York, Toronto and Vancouver. Now a collection 11,000 scientists from 153 countries is doing the same. CBC | World News
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