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Farhana Sultana: Climate and COVID-19 crises both need feminism - here's why

People all over the world are reeling from the one-two punch of climate change and COVID-19. The overlapping crises are exposing and intensifying patterns of disadvantage, marginalization and inequality for vulnerable people including the poor, minorities, children, women and the elderly.

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AI shows ExxonMobil downplayed its role in climate change

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How The Big Melt will change life for people and nature

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Youth activists begin 400-mile walk from New Orleans to Houston for a Green New Deal

Young people from across the Gulf South are demanding action on climate change.
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Louisiana's governor wants the oil and gas state to go carbon neutral

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Jeremy Deaton: The U.S. owes a massive climate debt. One way to pay it: Let in climate migrants

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Teen activist pushes city hall to get serious about emissions

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The big melt

In mere decades, many of BC’s 16,000 glaciers will be gone. That will change life on our coast, from plankton to people. First in a series.
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France: Climate protesters take to the streets

NGOs and activists demonstrated throughout France on Sunday to urge President Emmanuel Macron to do more to tackle climate change. They claimed a new bill aimed at slashing emissions does not go far enough.
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Merkel pushes for carbon pricing ′worldwide′ at final climate conference

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Climate finance hopes for poor nations shift to G7 summit as Merkel disappoints

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BP’s carbon-offsets strategy is bearing fruit in Washington State

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