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16/01/24
Author: 
Oliver Milman
Flooded streets after hurricane Idalia. Photo by CityofStPete/Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0 Deed)

Jan. 16, 2024

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiralling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned.

13/01/24
Author: 
Naomi Klein
Only outside pressure can stop Israel’s war crimes. Naomi Klein

Jan. 10, 2024

In 2005, Palestinians called on the world to boycott Israel until it complied with international law. What if we had listened?

Exactly 15 years ago this week, I published an article in the Guardian. It began like this:

13/01/24
Author: 
Margaret McGregor, Linda Thyer, and Tim Takaro
An airburst of artillery-fired white phosphorus over Gaza City. Photo by Mahmud Hams/Al-Haq.

Jan. 9, 2024

Ignoring the ecological impacts of war and militarism impedes our ability to adequately respond to the planetary health crisis

Three months after Israel started bombing Gaza in retaliation against Hamas, Palestine is being converted to rubble with a death toll today of over 22,000 with no end in sight.

10/01/24
Author: 
Seth Klein
A delegate is silhouetted while walking past the ExxonMobil booth during the LNG2023 conference, in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, July 10, 2023. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Jan. 10, 2024

One of the biggest climate stories in Canada in 2024 might well prove to be a project that, so far at least, few in the country have heard of — Ksi Lisims LNG.

09/01/24
Author: 
International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine
Stop genocide - free Palestine

 January 9, 2024

On December 30, the newly-formed International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine convened around the urgent need for nations to invoke the Genocide Convention as a way to end the State of Israel’s devastating bombing campaign and additional war crimes being committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. That effort advanced on December 29 when South Africa submitted a well-documented case against Israel to the International Court of Justice.

06/01/24
Author: 
Zoya Teirstein
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
Dec. 22, 2024

The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught U.S. communities off guard are a grim preview of the future.

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