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Paris Climate Talks – New Text Now, Final On Track for Friday

In a very brief session at 21:00 COP President Fabius says he will lead meetings of negotiators from 11.30 pm and overnight to hash out “compromises” and “landing zones”. “I think I will be able to...

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Paris Climate Talks – Late Breaking Update

Final Paris Agreement to be Ready Saturday AM At 5:40 local time Friday #COP21 President Laurent Fabius announces his last text will be ready Saturday morning, for final decision around noon.Filed...

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Paris Climate Talks – Human and Indigenous Rights Removed

“How can our voices be silenced here?”  Jannie Staffansson – a Sami woman from Northern Europe   We are the persons who are dying. My friends, my family are the ones who go through water, they are the...

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Paris Climate Talks – Late Breaking Update Friday

Final Paris Agreement to be released Sat Dec 12 at 1030 am CET Countries will then spend Saturday reviewing, commenting and, if all goes well, voting on the new climate agreement by end of day. It is...

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Climate Change Driving Our Weather Crazy

By Stephen Leahy Helle Thorning-Schmidt came home at 3:30am one night last August to find her home flooded after heavy rains. Ironically the Danish prime minister had been attending European Commission...

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Global Warming Explained… in 320 words

One night in a bar a Russian journalist who I’d just met says:  “This global warming is too complicated for people to know if it’s real or not”. “You don’t think climate change is happening?” I asked...

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Climate Change Explained in 165 Words

The moon has no atmosphere so it is scorching hot (+100C) during the day and bitterly cold (-150C) at night. The Earth has an atmosphere made up of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other...

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Oceans on the Brink: Dying Plankton, Dead Zones, Acidification

By Stephen Leahy [Originally published Jul 31, 2010 for the Inter Press Service (IPS)] The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet and plankton its red blood cells. Those vital “red blood cells” have...

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A Carbon Law to Protect the Climate

  By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 24 2017 (IPS) The Carbon Law says human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced by half each decade starting in 2020. By following this “law” humanity...

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Climate Change Explained in 165 Words

The moon has no atmosphere so it is scorching hot (+100C) during the day and bitterly cold (-150C) at night. The Earth has an atmosphere made up of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other...

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