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It's About to Get Even Hotter—Can We Learn From It?

It's About to Get Even Hotter—Can We Learn From It?

Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.

14.03.2026 4

Common Dreams

Bill Mckibben

Here Comes the Sun... to Light Our Way Out of the Age of Fuel Blockades and Oil Wars

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03.03.2026 10

Common Dreams

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Why Pausing the Data Center Buildout Is the (Humanly) Intelligent Choice

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24.02.2026 10

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How Climate Denial Greased Trump's Ascent to Fibber-in-Chief

03.02.2026 10

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The Cowardice of the Financial Elite Could Doom Us All to Climate Hell

29.01.2026 8

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The Planetary Crime of a Trump Invasion of Greenland

07.01.2026 7

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Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign

06.01.2026 7

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The Science Equivalent of Tearing Down the East Wing of the White House

19.12.2025 10

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Trump's Oil Piracy Shows Why the Push for Renewable Energy Is the Push for Peace

11.12.2025 5

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Facing the Climate Crisis, Can We Make Politics Move Faster Than Physics?

29.11.2025 9

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Our Home Is on Fire! Why Don't Leaders Act Like It?

21.11.2025 9

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There's Nothing Fair About It, But the Global South Is Leading the Way on Climate

13.11.2025 9

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Why We Shouldn't Care What Bill Gates Has to Say About the Climate Crisis

01.11.2025 7

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The History of Whaling Shows Energy Transitions Are Possible

29.10.2025 7

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I Returned to the Site of the Original No Kings Protest

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the...

18.10.2025 10

Mother Jones

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An Inflatable Frog Is the Hero the Anti-Trump Resistance Needs

17.10.2025 9

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Green Energy Is Still a Better Bet Than AI

15.10.2025 8

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Trump Is Turning the US Into the Planet's Rogue Nation

08.10.2025 9

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Sun Day Visions of a Brighter Future

22.09.2025 10

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This Sunday Is... 'SUN DAY'—Join Us!

19.09.2025 10

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Trump and Wright Are Turning America Into a Gas Station Masquerading as a Nation

09.09.2025 7

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Trump's War on Clean Energy Could Be His Downfall... If the Dems Exploit It

20.08.2025 10

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Life Under the Spooky, Shrouded, Trumpian Sun

08.08.2025 10

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Deluded Don’s Climate Con

31.07.2025 10

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Could an ICJ Ruling Help Shift Us From Climate Impunity to Climate Accountability?

25.07.2025 7

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I’m a Climate Activist. I’m Not Giving Up Just Yet.

It is inevitable that America will eventually follow the rest of the world and that in 40 or so years, it will run mainly on sun and wind.

18.07.2025 10

The New York Times

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How to Take Advantage of the IRA Tax Credits Before Trump’s GOP Kills Them

15.07.2025 9

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Don’t Let the GOP Run the Summer Camp

09.07.2025 10

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Remembering Bill Moyers, Who Always Strived to Make the Future Work

27.06.2025 10

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Climate Breakdown Is the Biggest Story on Earth, So Why Are US Leaders Ignoring It?

21.06.2025 10

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Is This the Moment That We Became a Fascist Country? Not If We Say No!

13.06.2025 10

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I’m Very Glad That New York Has Ranked-Choice Voting

03.06.2025 10

The Nation

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Trump and His Feral Crew of Wreckers Want to Kill America’s Future

23.05.2025 10

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Trump Cares More About Growing Fossil Fuel Profits Than Shrinking Your Energy Bill

20.05.2025 7

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Climate Hope—and Wisdom—From Abroad

As Trump tacks tariffs onto films from “foreign lands,” we can still be inspired by other countries’ environmental visions, from China’s affordable...

06.05.2025 10

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Canada Rebukes Trump—But That May Just Be the Start of Mark Carney's Role in History

I’ve been watching Carney for a long time and there's a few things you should know about this man, especially as the U.S. president tries to drag...

29.04.2025 5

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At Last, College Presidents Are Standing Up to Trump

When we think of “organizing” we tend to think of protesters—of scruffy and earnest demonstrators taking on giant corporations, of people with...

25.04.2025 10

Mother Jones

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Honoring Pope Francis, Who Championed the Glorious World Around Us

21.04.2025 10

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Will Trump Come for the Climate Movement on Earth Day?

18.04.2025 9

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Trump Keeps Declaring Fake Emergencies That Make Our Real Emergency Worse

09.04.2025 10

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DOGE vs “The Pitt”

I think The Pitt is the best television show I’ve ever seen. That’s perhaps not quite the paean that it appears—I mostly use the TV to watch...

02.04.2025 10

Mother Jones

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Tesla Has Same Problem as Big Oil: Its Time Has Come

22.03.2025 10

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Trump, Zeldin, and Wright Want to Set America’s Rivers on Fire Again

14.03.2025 10

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Team Trump Tries to Export Its Fossil Fuel Madness

10.03.2025 10

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By Gutting NOAA, Musk and Trump Are Destroying a Public Good to Aid Big Oil

01.03.2025 10

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Trump's LNG Export Extortion Racket

16.02.2025 10

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DeepSeek Gives the Lie to the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Latest Stalling Tactic

31.01.2025 10

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The Big Bang, Horrifying LA Fires, and Our Self-Destructive Species

09.01.2025 10

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'Nobody Can Embargo Sunlight': Jimmy Carter and the US Solar Revolution That Wasn't

Why didn't we listen? We could so easily have listened.

07.01.2025 9

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Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary

On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the White...

30.12.2024 10

The New Yorker

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