Check here for articles that cover news from around the world regarding climate change and the actions being taken to combat it!

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Policy

​Vox: Why Biden Should Name Deb Haaland To Head The Department of Interior (2020)

​Wired: Can Biden Make Climate Progress With a Divided Congress? (2020)
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ADN: Trump Administration Denies Permit For Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska (2020)

​Ecowatch: New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency (2020)

​Euronews: The Scourge of Plastic Waste -- And What The EU Is Doing About It (2020)

The Conversation: Coronavirus Relief Funds Could Easily Pay To Stop The Worst of Climate Change While Rebooting Economies (2020)

New York Times: How Decades of Racist Housing Policies Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (2020)

​The Texas Tribune: Texas Adds Pollution Monitoring Capability After Hurricane Harvey Failures (2020) *

​Happy Eco News: New York Will Finally Enforce Its Plastic Bag Ban  (2020)

​BBC: UK To Ban Illegally Logged Rainforest Products (2020)

​NPR (Environment): California governor signs order banning sales of new gasoline cars by 2035 (2020)

NY Times: China's pledge to be carbon neutral by 2060: What it means (2020)

​BBC News (Climate): The week Boris Johnson turned green, or did he?  (2020)

​New York Times: Japan's New Leader Set Ambitious Goals of Carbon Neutrality by 2050 (2020)

​Vox: Nevada Voters Seal Renewable Energy Goals In Their State Constitution (2020)

Phys Org: The World's First Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database (2020)

​Eco Watch: New Jersey Passes "Most Comprehensive" Plastics Ban in the Nation (2020)

Environment

Mongbay: Scientists In Costa Rica Are Growing New Corals To Save Reefs  (2020)​
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Boreal Conservation: Boreal Forest is Key to Reaching Biodiversity & Climate Goals (2020)

​The Narwhal: RBC Becomes First Canadian Bank to Refuse to Fund Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge (2020)

​Inhabitat: Architects Propose A Massive Forest To Be The "Green Lungs" of Hanoi (2020)

Science Daily: Possible 1,000-Kilometer-Long River Running Deep Below Greenland's Ice Sheet (2020)

​Forbes: Antarctic Commission Pursues Largest Conservation Action Ever Taken (2020)
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Climate Research

Euro News: World's Population Could Easily Survive On 60% Less Energy, Study Says (2020)

BBC News: Sir David Attenborough Polar Research Ship Set to Begin Sea Trials  (2020)
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​Air Quality News Org: Global SO2 Pollution Fell By 6% in 2019 (2020)

​Mongbay: Rewilding Key To Averting Mass Extinctions And Reducing Carbon Emissions (2020)

NASA: Changing Pacific Conditions Raise Sea-Level Along U.S. West-Coast (2020)

​The Guardian: 'Immense' Potential of Renewable Energy Could Propel Australia To Net Zero 2050 Target (2020) 
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Wildlife

​​The Guardian: Chameleon Last Seen A Century Ago Rediscovered in Madagascar (2020)

​Happy Eco News: U.S. Report Bumper Bee Bonzana - Honeybee Numbers On The Increase in Multiple U.S. States (2020)
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Industry (Transportation, Energy, etc.)

​Fast Company: Austin, Texas Just Voted To Spend $7 Billion On a Transportation Revolution  (2020)​ *

EuroNews: First Fully Carbon-Neutral Cargo Flight Set To Take Off From Frankfurt Airport (2020)

Reuters: Germany Agrees $2.3 Billion Aid For Auto-Industry To Navigate Technology Shift (2020)

​Washington Post: Georgetown University To Power Campus With Electricity From Solar Plants (2020)

Eco Watch: How Sweden is Transforming Homes into Power Stations (2020)

WAMC: Fighting Climate Change, One Building at a Time (2020)

Inside Climate News: A Chemical Climate Company Captures and Reuses 6,000 Tons of Super-Polluting Greenhouse Gases (2020)

​LiveMint: Apple Dumps Power Adapter and Earbuds in iPhone 12, Citing Ecological Concerns (2020)

​Electric Autonomy CA: Vancouver's EV Structure Set For News Gains After City Passes Climate Emergency Action Plan (2020)
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