LA fires and the top climate stories to watch in 2025

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Catastrophe Apathy: Why understanding the climate crisis isn’t enough

Climate concern is not the problem. Most people have it. What's missing is everything that turns concern into action - and understanding that gap turns out to be a lot more complicated than it looks.This week, Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson sit down wit ...  Show more

Trump Moves to Dismantle US Climate Law - Now Comes the Legal Test

The Trump administration last week announced the repeal of the ‘endangerment finding’ - the 2009 determination that climate change threatens public health and welfare. It may sound arcane, but this piece of legislation empowered the US federal government to regulate greenhouse ga ...  Show more

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The United Nations has just published a worrying new report about the rate of sea level rise in the Pacific. BBC climate reporter Esme Stallard talks us through the details.

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