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Secrecy maintained over the extent to which Britain is willing to abandon environmental and consumer protections to secure trade deals after Brexit.

Is Trump the end of the green transition or the start of America’s decline?

Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States and controls the world's most lethal state. The Democrat vote collapsed: here's why.

The film Civil War addresses the paradox that the only way to stop polarisation is to take a side.

The US president last night announced a new target to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030.

Federal tax cuts are one way governments can help renewable energy grow in both the residential and business sectors.

More than 8,500 separate fires burned during 2018 in California, making them the deadliest and most destructive of any year in the state’s history. 

Trump's nationalist, populist and anti-science rhetoric on fracking has shifted the debate to the right, endangering the environment and public health.

The wildfires in California are a sign that the climate crisis is coming for both rich and poor countries. But how many more signs do we need before we take serious action?

The recent uptick in the ferocity and frequency of extreme weather events is evidence of an acceleration of climate impacts, some of which were underestimated by climate computer models.

The Paris Agreement threw a lifeline to millions of people of colour facing a premature death, but Trump is tearing that away.

Donald Trump’s administration is sweeping away environmental regulations that protect you, America and the world from pollution.

The decision to defend capital has led to governments taking too little action too late to stop the spread of novel coronavirus.

'I never thought I’d find friendship in a slaughterhouse.'

Greta Thunberg sets sail for New York under a patchwork of blue sky and grey clouds.

The causal relationship between climate breakdown and wildfires is a dangerous Catch-22.

War would be the end for Trump, very bad for the American ruling class and ordinary Americans, and catastrophic for ordinary Iranians.

Information Rights Tribunal asked to rule over heavily redacted documents from Liam Fox’s trade working groups with over twenty countries.

The first law in the US to recognise the rights of an ecosystem is under threat.

Donald Trump set to become only world leader not to support the Paris Agreement on climate change as even war torn Syria pledges to sign up, reports ARTHUR WYNS from the COP23 in Bonn.

The USA still has a problem with asbestos, despite countries all across the world taking action to ban asbestos use. CHARLES MACGREGOR argues that action must be taken now.

The Paris Agreement is a severely inadequate response to the climate crisis the world now faces, writes Pete Dolack, full of vague aspirations and devoid of hard, enforceable commitments. But the impending US withdrawal is still bad news for us all - including the Trump-supporting Koch brothers, set to gain billions from their Alberta tarsands holdings. Short-term profits are a poor exchange for a less livable world, even for those making the money.

A 'Friend of the Sea' Dutch-owned trawler certified to supply 'sustainably caught' shrimp to the US and EU was arrested in Liberia after operating in an an area reserved for artisanal fishers, writes Peter Hammarstedt. The vessel, which had no licence and lacked the turtle excluders required by law, was discovered by the crew of Sea Shepherd's 'Bob Barker' in a joint mission with the Liberian Coast Guard to clamp down on rampant illegal fishing.

The participation of the fossil fuel industry in UN climate talks represents clear a conflict of interest, writes Pascoe Sabido. And nowhere has this been more apparent than at this month's UNFCCC meeting in Bonn, where fossil fuel representatives have slowed progress to a snail's pace. With just six months to go before November's COP23 negotiations, it's time to defy the US, EU and Australia, and kick fossil fuel lobbyists out!