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Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro used his time at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to proclaim that the “times of extinction” have begun and predict that billions of migrants will soon join a climate “exodus.”

German climate activists sprayed orange paint onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Sunday morning while demanding an end to fossil fuels.

Greta Thunberg has been charged once again with disobeying a police order in Sweden after being found guilty of a similar offence in July.

Non-profit news agencies Mongabay and the New Humanitarian published a joint report on Wednesday that debunked the United Nations’ extravagant claims of “climate neutrality.”

Oprah Winfrey says she was shocked over the online “vitriol” in reaction to her urging the public to donate money toward the victims of the Maui wildfires.

United States Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, an ardent proponent of electric vehicles (EVs), admitted he has trouble finding reliable electric vehicle charging stations while he is traveling on the road. 

The California state legislature has passed a bill that would require large companies to disclose their estimated carbon emissions. It is the first bill of its kind, and could lead to similar legislation being passed in other states.

Audio of the 911 call when U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s staff were blocking an electric vehicle (EV) charger has been released. 

It remains “too soon” to know the impacts Hurricane Lee could have on the northeastern United States, the NHC said.

On the heels of Biden’s trip to Alaska, oil prices spike to highest level since last November.

U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters in Vietnam that the only thing scarier than nuclear war is a rise in global temperatures and that climate change skeptics are “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers.”

A massive sinkhole opened up on a Tampa, Florida, property on Friday, the second in the same location since June.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm decided to show America how great electric cars are — and only proved the technology isn’t even close to ready.

The United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were affected by Friday night’s magnitude 6.8 quake that left at least 2,000 dead.

Hurricane Lee lost some strength Friday but still poses a threat approaching the southwest Atlantic.

Several thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday before police dispersed them with water cannons.

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 1,000 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. The full toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest.

President Joe Biden’s Interior Department said it would cancel the oil and gas leases issued in the latter days of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Zero. That was the sum total of new UK offshore wind projects bought by developers at a key government auction Thursday, as renewable energy groups shunned the sector as unviable even with heavy taxpayer subsidies.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “First Move,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry reacted to groups like Just Stop Oil blocking traffic or vandalizing artwork by stating, “that militancy will grow if people in positions of responsibility do

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers show how misdirected incentives, governmental corruption and incompetence, made the wildfire disaster on Maui worse but inevitable.

Compared to most of Earth’s history, temperatures in 2023 are unusually cold.

Researchers from Canada and Australia have published a study predicting a remarkable one billion deaths from climate change over the next 100 years.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned humanity the world’s climate is breaking down, delivering his terrifying appraisal just weeks after declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Major car show was opened by the German Chancellor, but his boosterism was upstaged by eco-extremists accusing “greenwashing”.

A surge in AI-generated mushroom foraging books on Amazon has raised alarms among experts, who warn that such guides, filled with misinformation about poisonous mushrooms, could pose life-threatening risks to consumers.

There is no real real intelligence to deny the “climate crisis” or its impact, President Joe Biden warned sceptics and doubters Saturday as he toured damage in Florida left behind after Hurricane Idalia smashed through the Big Bend region.

GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected reopening nuclear power plants, declaring that atomic energy is a “dead horse” in Germany.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio dined on Fukushima seafood to show the fish are safe after the release of treated wastewater.

China’s mad dash for coal power continues, even as Western governments tell their citizens to make more sacrifices for “climate change.”

Linemen have already restored power to an estimated 420,000 homes since then-Hurricane Idalia’s landfall Wednesday morning.

Tropical Storm Idalia descended on the Carolinas on its way out to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction throughout the Southeast that stretched back to its landfall as a hurricane in Florida.

Bad news for Germany’s left-green coalition: research finds clear majority would rather the state just got on with fixing potholes.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith backed the civil disobedience against London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s green car tax spy camera network.

Videos show the deteriorating conditions in the eyewall of Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend Wednesday morning.