Top news of the week: 07.07.2021.
Climate
Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
How America's biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change
How climate change will widen Europe’s divides
The south of the Continent will be harder hit than the north, driving a wedge into one of the European Union’s deepest fault lines.
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
The long read: The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom
Fighting Climate Change Might Have Just Gotten Easier
A court in The Netherlands has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its carbon emissions—and more
Media reaction: Pacific north-west ‘heat dome’ and the role of climate change
The heatwave is driven by an area of high atmospheric pressure sitting over the North American continent, which many media outlets are calling a “heat dome”.
Heat waves kill people—and climate change is making it much, much worse
A recent study found that more than a third of all heat deaths worldwide can be pinned on climate change. Parts of the U.S. are feeling the danger now.
Climate Change Could Destroy America's Roads
Many roads aren't built to withstand extreme heat, an increasingly common occurrence in many parts of the country.
Climate change litigation cases spreading around the world
Climate change litigation cases have been increasing markedly over the past six years, and pose a risk to an expanding range of companies and policymakers, according to a new report ...