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Bill McKibben delivers a speech during his Do the Math Tour
The Most Influential Climate Science Paper Today Remains Unknown to Most People
Just six pages long, it is stoking a new moral urgency for climate action and forcing the financial world to reconsider the value of fossil fuel reserves.
It is probably the most influential paper on climate science today. But few outside scientific...
By Katherine Bagley
Feb 14, 2013 | Read More
Journalists covering the annual summit of the United Nations Framework Conventio
About a Dozen Environment Reporters Left at Top 5 U.S. Papers
As NYT dismantles its environment desk, increased pressure on a handful of remaining journalists covering complexity of climate change.
The news last week that the New York Times is dismantling its environment desk and reassigning the...
By Katherine Bagley
Jan 17, 2013 | Read More
Kick-off of the Do The Math tour in Seattle
Spreading Like Wildfire, Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Striking a Moral Chord
The primary aim of student-led campaign at 150-plus universities is to make climate change the moral issue of the generation.
A divestment campaign aimed at fossil fuel companies has swept college campuses across the country...
By Katherine Bagley
Dec 6, 2012 | Read More
Protesters rally against the Keystone XL pipeline on Nov. 18 in Washington D.C.
Protesters Confident That Carbon Math Will Force Obama to Reject Keystone XL Again
Continuing protests will spotlight the danger of burning fossil energy reserves containing 2,795 gigatons of CO2.
Karen Bagdes-Canning felt a sense of déjà vu when she marched past the White House on Sunday...
By Jason Plautz
Nov 19, 2012 | Read More
Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Mt. Adams, Ohio
Thousands Make Last Plea to Include Climate Change in Presidential Debates
Climate issues are absent this election, but research shows that merely mentioning a topic during the TV debates could help elevate it in voters' minds.
Aside from Mitt Romney's recent jab at Barack Obama's concern over global warming—and the president...
By Jason Plautz
Oct 1, 2012 | Read More
Nov. 6 protest at the White House
Activist Leaders Explain How They Beat the Keystone XL Pipeline
Persistence, solidarity and youthful optimism gave activists and landowners an edge in battle to keep Keystone XL pipeline out of Nebraska Sandhills.
WASHINGTON—Just six months ago, few could have imagined that an inanimate object as ugly as a 36-...
By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News
Nov 11, 2011 | Read More
Some 10,000 protesters gathered around the White House to protest Keystone XL
10,000-Strong Keystone Protest, Biggest Yet, Draws Surprisingly Diverse Crowd
The crowd's goal was to give President Obama a "solidarity hug" by forming a human chain around the White House.
WASHINGTON—As Brian Nowak made a beeline across Lafayette Square to the handmade "Minnesotans for...
By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News
Nov 7, 2011 | Read More
Keystone XL Protesters Up Against Faded Interest in U.S. Climate Effort
Still, Bill McKibben and others leading the two-week D.C. sit-in remain intent on connecting the dots between the oil pipeline and climate danger
WASHINGTON—Close to noon Tuesday, frustrated tourist Ron Higgins of Los Angeles tries to maneuver a...
By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News
Aug 24, 2011 | Read More
Bill McKibben
U.S. Climate Protests Shift to Blocking Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
Bill McKibben and allies say the proposed tar sands pipeline — which was barely on their radar a year ago — could galvanize U.S. action on climate
WASHINGTON—Conservationists are still fuming about President Obama's continued lack of follow-...
By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News
Jun 27, 2011 | Read More
In McKibben's Toolbox for Cancun, Art Visible from Space
350 EARTH project based on the notion that art gets to people in ways that science doesn’t
WASHINGTON—Bill McKibben might be an optimist. But he isn’t delusional enough to think that what he...
By Elizabeth McGowan
Nov 19, 2010 | Read More