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National Party would throw fuel on the fire as the world burns
Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced energy policy blatant climate denial and an affront to all the people and communities already suffering the impacts of climate change.
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Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic Western wildfires
What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views.
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Arctic warming: are record temperatures and fires arriving earlier than scientists predicted?
On June 20 2020, the mercury reached 38°C in Verkhoyansk, Siberia – the hottest it’s ever been in the Arctic in recorded history. With the heatwaves came fire, and by the start of August around 600 individual fires were being detected every day. By early September, parts of the Siberian Arctic had been burning since…
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Amazon, Bolsonaro, Cattle: the ABC’s of Destruction
In spite of a declared fire ban and the presence of the army, the number of fire hotspots recorded in August are likely to be even higher than last year. Fires in the Amazon rainforest are not natural. They are deliberately set by land-grabbers and ranchers to expand the land used for cattle grazing and…
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Greenpeace celebrates Green Party commitment to phase out PKE
Greenpeace is labelling the commitment to end the use of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) “bold and transformational”. The commitment has just been announced as part of the Green Party Agriculture policy
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We are going to the Arctic
The warming Arctic is one of our key global indicators of climate breakdown. So we’re heading there to document and bear witness to the yearly sea ice minimum. Have you…
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Greenpeace underwhelmed by National Party electric vehicles policy in face of climate crisis
National’s electric vehicles policy is a very cautious step in the right direction, but really underwhelming in the context of the climate crisis. Just as we saw with Labour’s energy policy announcement yesterday, National are slowly tip-toeing forward when they should be taking the big, bold strides that we need to address the climate crisis.
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Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major new report says
The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organisation warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024 –…
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New images of illegal fires in the Amazon show destruction advances
Greenpeace Brazil has captured new photos of fires devastating the Amazon during a flyover carried out between 16 to 21 August 2020. The images show widespread destruction across…
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Covid and hope: Is this the turning point we’ve been waiting for?
“Have you lost hope?” That's what a journalist asked me recently. It gave me pause. You know - they said - the whole idea of Covid creating an opportunity for humanity to reinvent itself. Fixing the problems besetting us - the ones that we've been ignoring. Climate change, ecological collapse. All that stuff.
