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Denial & Misinformation

The Surprising History of Climate Change Coverage in College Textbooks

A new study tracks the coverage of global warming over 50 years of biology textbooks–and yields a few surprises about how textbooks are covering climate today, as opposed to the past.

By Kiley Bense

A student shuffles through a stack of used books at the U.C. Irvine bookstore on July 30, 2008. Credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
People take part in a protest against ExxonMobil before the start of its trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on Oct. 22, 2019 in New York. Credit: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress

Exxon Accurately Predicted Global Warming, Years Before Casting Doubt on Climate Science

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Mark Schein stands at the edge of a field last week, a few miles from his farm in Pickaway County, Ohio. Credit: Dan Gearino

In the End, Solar Power Opponents Prevail in Williamsport, Ohio

By Dan Gearino

An active oil drilling rig is located next to a single family home on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite

By Liza Gross

Blanca Chancosa, juíza do Tribunal Internacional dos Direitos da Natureza e líder indígena equatoriana, examina parte da maior mina de minério de ferro do mundo, de propriedade da gigante brasileira de mineração Vale, em 23 de julho de 2022. Crédito: Katie Surma

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

LEFT: Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is running to become the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, greets guests during a campaign event at The Wicked Hop on Aug. 7, 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images RIGHT: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) arrives a rally on Oct. 25, 2022 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

One Candidate for Wisconsin’s Senate Race Wants to Put the State ‘In the Driver’s Seat’ of the Clean Energy Economy. The Other Calls Climate Science ‘Lunacy’

By Aydali Campa

Members of Extinction Rebellion Washington block traffic outside the offices of WGL's Washington Gas as part of the environmental group's campaign to get fossil fuels out of the nation's capital on July 8, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In Court, the Maryland Public Service Commission Quotes Climate Deniers and Claims There’s No Such Thing as ‘Clean’ Energy

By Aman Azhar

A man walks through a flooded street the morning after the remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the New York City and New Jersey area on Sept. 2, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

New Jersey Joins Other States in Suing Fossil Fuel Industry, Claiming Links to Climate Change

By Jon Hurdle

Blanca Chancosa, a judge with the International Rights of Nature tribunal and an Ecuadorian Indigenous leader, looks into part of the world's largest iron ore mine owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale on July 23, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

Fires smolder in recently burned areas near the Taimá Ecological Reservation and the Paraguai river. The lack of rains in 2020 deepened a drought that allowed wildfires and burns intentionally set to clear land for farms and ranches to explode over an unprecedented amount of land in Brazil's Pantanal wetland that year. Credit: Pablo Albarenga

In Brazil, the World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Been Overwhelmed With Unprecedented Fires and Clouds of Propaganda

By Jill Langlois

A Petroleum PR Blitz in New Mexico

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

These Clergy Are Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Climate

By James Bruggers

Activists from 'Just Stop Oil' close down the Gray's Inter Terminals by boarding fuel haulage vehicles on April 1, 2022 in Grays, England. Credit: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Warming Trends: British Morning Show Copies Fictional ‘Don’t Look Up’ Newscast, Pinterest Drops Climate Misinformation and Greta’s Latest Book Project

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Climatologist Michael Mann speaks at the Academic Freedom Conference at Johns Hopkins University. Credit: Mike Ferguson/AAUP

Judge Scales Back Climate Scientist’s Case Against Bloggers

By Marianne Lavelle

Houston's skyline, as seen from a railroad yard on the city's perimeter. Credit: Loren Elliott/ AFP via Getty Images.

Houston’s Mayor Asks EPA to Probe Contaminants at Rail Site Associated With Nearby Cancer Clusters

By Aman Azhar

The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America building facade in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call

The US Chamber of Commerce Has Helped Downplay the Climate Threat, a New Report Concludes

By Kristoffer Tigue

Tyrone Hayes, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at King University. In 2002, Hayes reported that atrazine, manufactured by Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta, turned male frogs into hermaphrodites. Credit: Earl Neikirk

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists

By Liza Gross

Steven Koonin, then-under secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaks at the 2011 CERAWEEK conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Friday, March 11, 2011. Credit: Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date

By Marianne Lavelle

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