Topic: climate action

A vendor with an umbrella over his head talks on mobile phone as he wipes his face with a cloth on a hot summer day in Varanasi on May 27, 2024. (NIHARIKA KULKARNI/AFP via Getty Images)

We need a national climate plan — now

John J. Berger - TomDispatch.com
This combination of photos shows participants snoozing during the closing session of the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre in Egypt. (Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images)

COP27 ends with no emissions agreement

Carl Pope
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Can fiction save the world?

Mark Johnson - Undark
Starbucks employees wait for results of a vote count, on December 9, 2021 in Buffalo, New York. - The ballots have been cast and employees of three Starbucks cafes in Buffalo have created the first union at outlets owned by the retail coffee giant in the United States. | In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. | Protesters march around downtown Minneapolis near the courthouse calling for justice for George Floyd after closing arguments in the Chauvin trial has ended on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, MN. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A bad year for the world: But still!

Medea Benjamin
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Youth activists push for climate action

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Bernie Sanders; Joe Biden; Beto O'Rourke (Getty/Salon)

Biden's rivals advising him on climate

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(Getty/AP/Salon)

Trump's environmental rollbacks continue

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Vladimir Putin and Mohammad Bin Salman (Getty Images/Salon)

Why the oil price war is a big deal

Carl Pope
Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon denounces a walkout by Republicans in the state Senate that prevented a quorum on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 in Salem, Ore. Republican lawmakers are trying to doom a contentious climate change bill. Brown said the Republicans are not against the climate policy but are against the Democratic process. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Oregon GOP flees to block climate bill

Igor Derysh
Tens of thousands of marchers participate in a Fridays for Future climate protest on February 21, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

"Where are you, USA?"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

The climate crisis must reunite America

Peter Dale Scott
Activists rally at a busy intersection prior to the Democratic in Manchester, NH on February 7, 2020. The marchers were concerned that climate change is not being discussed and addressed. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Climate crisis is shaping 2020 campaign

Carl Pope
Climate Change activists gathered to protest in Washington, D.C. on Friday, December 6, 2019. (Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

N.H. voters want climate action

Amanda Marcotte
A supporter of Fridays for Future movement holds a placard reading "stop coal" during a demonstration against the commissioning of the coal-fired power plant Datteln 4 in Datteln, western Germany on January 24, 2020. (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

How Germany is moving to green energy

Carl Pope
Residents defend a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, 350km north of Sydney on November 12, 2019. - A state of emergency was declared on November 11 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of "catastrophic" fire danger as Australia prepared for a fresh wave of deadly bushfires that have ravaged the drought-stricken east of the country. (Photo by PETER PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images) (Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia: Urgent warning to the world

Heather Digby Parton
Greta Thunberg on December 13, 2019 in Turin, Italy. The 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, just been elected Time Magazine's Person of the Year, on her way back from Madrid (where COP25 is happening) to Stockholm decided to partecipate to 50th Friday For Future in Turin. (Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Thunberg, activists: Dump fossil fuels

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Split of participants at the Climate Summit in Madrid, and protestors from the Global Climate Strike (Getty Images/Salon)

Does UN climate summit even matter?

Carl Pope
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GND supporters show up for workers

Elizabeth King - In These Times
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a campaign rally at the University of Minnesotas Williams Arena on November, 3, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over 10,000 people attended the rally, where Sanders was joined by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar. (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

NYT: Sanders' climate plan too Trumpy

Julie Hollar, Jim Naureckas - FAIR
Extinction Rebellion protestors participate in a hunger strike and "grief session" in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Office in Longworth House Office Building on November 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. The strike is planned to be held all week or until Speaker Pelosi agrees to sit with the group for a one hour on-camera interview about climate change. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

Climate activists occupy Pelosi's office

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Thousands of Chicago public school teachers and their supporters march through the Loop and in front of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) headquarters on September 10, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. More than 26,000 teachers and support staff hit the picket lines this morning after the Chicago Teachers Union failed to reach an agreement with the city on compensation, benefits and job security. With about 350,000 students, the Chicago school district is the third largest in the United States. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Climate strikes, phase two?

Rachel M. Cohen - In These Times
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images/Salon)

Aussie PM: Ban climate boycotts

Common Dreams staff
A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

How Girl Scouts are saving wild bees

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candle-lit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma, California, on October 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company. - Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began on October 9 as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images)

California's blackouts are not enough

Carl Pope
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