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The Year in Climate Photos

From the president’s desk to protests and disasters around the world, photos showed climate change is always easy to see but sometimes hard to look at.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Evacuated resident April Phillips wipes her face while watching a family dog at an evacuation center for the Dixie Fire at Lassen Community College in Susanville, California on Aug. 6, 2021. Phillips and her family were living in their cars and were told it would be at least 10 days before they could return home during the second-worst wildfire in California's history. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Royal Dutch Shell logo seen at a gas station in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. Credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Dutch Court Gives Shell Nine Years to Cut Its Carbon Emissions by 45 Percent from 2019 Levels

By Kristoffer Tigue, Dan Gearino

A view of the Supreme Court at dusk, January 31, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The Supreme Court Sidesteps a Full Climate Change Ruling, Handing Industry a Procedural Win

By David Hasemyer

An aerial view from a drone shows the Maryland State House, on April 16, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Maryland’s Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry

By David Hasemyer

Aerial view of a wind-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station on September 12, 2020 in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province of China. Credit: Li Zongxian/VCG via Getty Images

Get to Net-Zero by Mid-Century? Even Some Global Oil and Gas Giants Think it Can Be Done

By Dan Gearino

Bill Olesner walks down South Battery St. while cleaning debris from storm drains on Sept. 5, 2019 in Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Fives States Have Filed Climate Change Lawsuits, Seeking Damages From Big Oil and Gas

By David Hasemyer

Oil companies have lost billions since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to new earnings reports. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Big Oil Took a Big Hit from the Coronavirus, Earnings Reports Show

By Nicholas Kusnetz

OIl rig in sunset. Credit: Michael Kodas/InsideClimate News

What Does Net Zero Emissions Mean for Big Oil? Not What You’d Think

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The global oil and gas industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation and is finally being forced to reckon with a future of dwindling demand for its products, some analysts say. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

BP and Shell Write-Off Billions in Assets, Citing Covid-19 and Climate Change

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Dozens of cranes fill the skyline over the Ohio River a Shell Polymers builds an ethane cracker plant. Credit: James Bruggers

Shell’s Plastics Plant Outside Pittsburgh Has Suddenly Become a Riskier Bet, a Study Concludes

By James Bruggers

Construction at an ethene cracker plant on the Ohio River for making the building blocks of plastics. Credit: James Bruggers

Congressional Democrats Join the Debate Over Plastics’ Booming Future

By James Bruggers

Shell's Kulluk mobile oil drilling rig is towed by tugs off the coast Alaska in

Committee to Make Offshore Oil Drilling Safer May Disband

By Jason Plautz

Tar sands mining at the edge of the Canadian boreal forest.

Revealed: UK's Secret Pro-Oil Sands Campaign

By Damian Carrington, Guardian

Oil spill-damaged trees in the Niger Delta

30 Years and $1B for Nigeria Oil Cleanup

By Camillus Eboh and Felix Onuah, Reuters

Industry Unprepared for Arctic Spill

By Suzanne Goldenberg, for The Guardian

Senate Climate Bill Draws Both Praise and Ire from Energy Industry

By Stacy Feldman

Shareholders Vote on BP’s Plan to Move into Canadian Oil Sands

By Zoe Cormier

Oil Giants BP, ConocoPhillips Drop Out of US Climate Action Partnership

By SolveClimate Staff

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