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Oil Industry’s Shift to Plastics in Question as Report Warns $400 Billion in Stranded Assets Possible

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Read time: 11 mins Off Africa’s eastern coast, north of Madagascar, lies Aldabra Atoll, a cluster of coral islands that surround a tropical lagoon. Tags: fracking plastic Fracking Plastics Sir David Attenborough, the documentary filmmaker, has called Aldabra “one of the wonders of the world.”

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

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At the launch event for the new initiative today, COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said the Adaptation Agenda was a "critical step" for the "implementation COP", referring to the Egyptian presidency's tag line for the event.

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Could Climate Change Fuel the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism?

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Marine biologists warned that coral reefs in the U.S. Tags: Nationalism climate science denial extreme weather climate change Donald Trump Eight of the last 10 years have been the warmest on record. could disappear entirely by the 2040s. and the rise of nationalist political parties around the world.