Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Fracking Expands Across Latin America Threatening World's Third Largest Aquifer
Contaminated water in some places it will be a disaster, like in the north of Mexico where there isn't any water and wasting it is illogical.
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With 1.5º Target, Climate Justice Movement May Score A Surprise Win In Paris
Pressure from activists and vulnerable countries has shifted the discussion away from a 2º C target — a virtual death sentence for millions of people.
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The Law Of Partial Pressures: Paris COP21 Is Filled with John Daltons and Few Republicans
The view of America from Paris, from Europe and most of the world reveals a once-great nation that has become a floundering token of retrograde thinking led by anti-futurism and anti-humanism.
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Could Carbon Emitters In Air and On Sea Weaken Paris Climate Deal?
The international aviation and shipping industries make up more than 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions – yet these sectors may escape oversight in this month's Paris deal.
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Climate Movement: 500 Institutions Have Pledged $3.4 Trillion in Carbon Divestments
The list of institutions committed to ridding their portfolios of fossil fuel interests has surged in recent months, organizers said at the Paris climate summit.
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Paris Dispatch: Baselines for Our Occupying Earth Have Been Breached
In the global slugfest going on now in Paris over feasible outcomes and future dangers, the relevant – and unprecedented – number to remember is 400 parts per million of carbon in the air.
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Carbon Inequality: World's Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Half Of All CO2
The poorest half of the world meanwhile emits only a fraction of that amount, yet faces severe climate change effects.
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Foreign Fracking Company Quietly Buys Rights To Botswana Conservation Park
Top park officials were not informed of the fracking rights sale at Kgalagadi transfrontier park, borderin South Africa, are now worried about the impact of drilling on rare wildlife.
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Thin Green Line: Does Pacific Northwest Hold Key To Our Climate Future?
With huge gas and coal export terminals planned in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, "this sliver of coast basically is what stands between companies wrecking the climate or not.”
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COP21 Dispatch: Can Cows Save the Planet?
The relatively simple shift to holistic grazing has sanity and simplicity behind it – now, many want to see if carbon-smart farming can make soil sexy.
