A lawsuit filed in the Ugandan district of Mbale in 2020, shortly after weather experts warned that eastern Uganda would receive some of the heaviest rains in years is indicative of a broader, if still uneven, movement across Africa in recent years: Communities and activists are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge governments and […]
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A Team of Australian Researchers Wants to Bring Attribution Science to the Masses
It is not clear what is happening at first. In one video, a CCTV camera looks out over a port facility; in another it is a grand building that marks the Nepal-China border crossing. There are people in these images but from this distance, they look like specks. But the specks on the screen are […]
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Garifuna land defenders vs. Survivor (as in the TV show) | The Spill
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Himalayan Nation Has Surplus Clean Energy but No Buyers at Home or Abroad
An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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New Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate Change
Borrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters.
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New Data Pins a Quarter of a Million Climate-Related Deaths Since 2018 on Equinor
New attribution science finds that fossil fuels sold by Equinor in 2025 alone will bring about between 34,000 and 58,000 additional human deaths compared to a world in which they were never burned.
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Africa’s Longest Crude Oil Export Pipeline Isn’t Just Taking Indigenous Land, It Is Disturbing the Dead
Indigenous communities say burial sites are being disturbed by the EACOP project in Uganda and Tanzania, and compensation is not adequate to move graves.
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S15, Ep 5 | The Saudi Arabia of Biofuels
The cracks in the plan for global carbon domination.
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S15, Ep6 | A Tipping Point
It’s time for the climate movement to take a hard look at false solutions.
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S15, Ep 4 | Into the Amazon
The US corn ethanol industry invades the Brazilian Amazon.