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Earth’s sixth mass extinction has most certainly begun, asserts an article Tuesday in Science Alert, despite the objections of “deniers.”

Pope Francis once again appealed for a concerted international effort to battle climate change Monday, insisting that no one is exempt from this task.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Germany warns that more than one million species could go extinct within the next ten years in the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs.

Ostensibly environmental regulations restricting water diversion and use have “killed” California farming, Victor Davis Hanson said.

The Biden climate agenda is the Green New Deal in disguise. For American greens, it’s climate first. For Chinese leaders, it’s China first.

Democrats create electricity and water shortages and wildfires while blaming “climate change” and “global warming,” Rep. Devin Nunes said.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday mocked vegetarianism as an unhealthy obsession of Chinese entertainers who spend too much time on the “blind worship” of Western values.

China’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that dictator Xi Jinping was planning a “meeting” with American President Joe Biden in the near future, building on reports of a potential “virtual” summit on Monday.

Public Security Minister of Vietnam To Lam and at least one underling enjoyed a lavishly expensive gold-plated steak at the London restaurant run by chef Nusret Gökçe, more commonly known as “Salt Bae,” Singapore’s Mothership reported on Sunday.

Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for the success of the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference beginning in Glasgow, Scotland.

The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on October 29, where the two will discuss “tackling the climate crisis,” among other topics.

Automotive fuel retailers have said the British government’s push to switch to more environmentally friendly petrol was a “major factor” in last month’s alleged fuel crisis, which saw station forecourts run out of fuel as a result of panic buying.

After announcing a vaccine mandate for K-12 students once the FDA approves the shot for all ages, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two laws on Tuesday banning the use of “forever chemicals” in children’s products and disposable food packaging.

Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher said Sunday that the environment is a natural meeting point in dialogue between the Holy See and Beijing.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin compared the urgency of fighting the environmental crisis to that of the coronavirus pandemic.

Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher on Friday urged a U.N. High-Level Dialogue on Energy to abandon fossil fuels because climate change is causing untold damage.

More and more Guatemalan farmers are migrating because their land “has been destroyed by climate-related weather events,” NBC News reported Thursday.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to touting his country’s business environment and talking up progress on Amazon deforestation, but for much of the media, it was difficult to hear Bolsonaro over the sound of him not being vaccinated.

The World Bank has made the remarkably precise prediction of 216 million internal climate migrants by the year 2050, Nigrizia reported Sunday.

Anti-carbon policies in Europe have created a fuel shortage and sent energy prices through the roof, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board reported Wednesday.

Pope Francis has joined the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in proclaiming climate change “an immediate and urgent matter of survival” for humanity.

Pope Francis has continued his environmental crusade, urging Catholics Wednesday to adopt “a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle.”

The woke Guardian newspaper has attributed August rainfall on Greenland’s ice cap to global warming, insisting that the event constitutes “a stark sign of the climate crisis.”

The tiny Balkans nation of Montenegro is currently seeking to refinance a billion dollars in Chinese loans for a highly controversial “road to nowhere” infrastructure project.

The European Parliament has formally set a goal to make the entire European Union carbon neutral by 2050.

Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), described American children as an “environmental hazard” while advocating for slowing U.S. population growth in her 1992 graduate thesis.

A nonprofit environmentalist organization called Oceana released a report on Wednesday that found hundreds of foreign vessels appeared to be conducting illegal fishing operations along the borders of Argentina’s territorial waters, and 66 percent of them were Chinese “fishing vessels.”

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A Dutch court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions by net 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in a landmark case brought by climate activist groups. The ruling Wednesday by

Henrik Fisker met with Pope Francis in the Vatican this week and laid out his plans for an all-electric papal transport that can beat out most gasoline-fueled vehicles.

The government of Sierra Leone appears to have concluded a deal this month with China to convert 250 acres of beachfront property and protected rainforest into a fishing plant and harbor.

A Swedish court has ruled that a non-plastic, biodegradable, reusable bag will still be subject to a tax on plastic bags because it looks too much like real plastic.

IPCC expet reviewer Gregory Wrightstone said rising global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 is making Earth greener and more prosperous.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted on Wednesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would debate her over the Green New Deal.

Greenpeace activists have dropped several large boulders into the English channel in an effort to stop fishing in a protected area. 

Zimbabwean media reported Monday that villagers have accused Chinese mining companies of bribing local leaders to take control of mining areas, displacing village residents, and seizing control of land inside protected game preserves.

In an interview with Chinese state media on Monday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates saluted China – the worst polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet – and its autocratic ruler Xi Jinping for “making climate a priority.”