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Amazon's Jeff Bezos promises climate-change action
2019-09-19 18:16:35| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The chief executive says Amazon will buy thousands of electric vehicles and become carbon neutral by 2040.
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Oregonian: Climate-change crisis - Oregon faces wildfires, drought and deep economic losses
2018-11-29 17:43:39| PortlandOnline
News story posted to oregonlive.com November 29, 2018.
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Leonardo DiCaprios Climate-Change Acceptance Speech Had a Big Online Impact
2016-08-05 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NY Mag: Back in February, after Leonardo DiCaprio finally nabbed his elusive first Oscar for his role in The Revenant, he dedicated about half of his acceptance speech to the subject of climate change. It was: "Climate change is real - it is happening right now," he said. "It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating." Okay, whatever. Another celebrity with a cause. Except according to a new paper published in PlOS ONE, DiCaprio's...
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California seeks to extend landmark climate-change effort
2016-07-12 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: An interactive look at permafrost UN Panorama Arctic lands devastated by warming California's landmark cap-and-trade program to fight climate-changing pollution from fossil fuels would survive long past Gov. Jerry Brown's time in office under a state proposal Tuesday. The initiative from the state's Air Resources Board is part of a push by Brown's administration to ensure that some of his programs to curb carbon emissions continue after Brown, a prominent figure globally in the fight...
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Trump at odds with world leaders over climate-change 'con job'
2016-07-12 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: If elected president, Donald Trump would be the only head of state in the world to contend that climate change is a hoax, according to a study. The Sierra Club compiled public statements from the leaders of the 195 nations recognized by the State Department. An advance copy of the group's report, released Tuesday, was provided to The Associated Press. In contrast to public statements by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee calling climate change a "con job" and a "myth," the leader...