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Julie Maike Nora
North Dakota Gov Cuts Water Supply to Native Americans as DAPL Protest Swells in Number and Spirit
North Dakota Gov Cuts Water Supply to Native Americans as DAPL Protest Swells in Number and Spirit
Thousands join protest camp as supporters are holding a rally in Washington D.C. on Wednesday outside of Army Corps hearing
Lauren McCauley
Climate Change Has Become A Political Football
Climate Change Has Become A Political Football
Ten years after Al Gore's movie, the climate debate in the US has devolved into nonsense.
11 min
Our Planet Is Heating - the Empirical Evidence
Our Planet Is Heating - the Empirical Evidence
In an entertaining and somewhat chaotic episode of ABC’s Q&A (Monday 15th August) pitting science superstar Brian Cox against climate contrarian and global conspiracy theorist and now senator Malcolm Roberts, the question of cause and effect and empirical data was raised...
Mike Sandiford
'I Brought the Graph': Brian Cox Refutes Denial of Climate Change by Australian Senator
'I Brought the Graph': Brian Cox Refutes Denial of Climate Change by Australian Senator
The celebrity physicist Brian Cox came prepared to the ABC’s Q&A on Monday night with graphs, ready to counter claims by his co-panellist, the climate denier and Australian senator-elect Malcolm Roberts.
2 min
British Astronaut's Climate Change Mission
British Astronaut's Climate Change Mission
He's a former astronaut and leading NASA scientist: but when Piers Sellers was diagnosed with terminal cancer - he asked himself - was continuing to study the effect of climate change really worth the bother?
6 min
The Climate Crisis Is Here But Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
The Climate Crisis Is Here But Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance.
George Monbiot
Age of Humans
Age of Humans (2016)
Written and directed by João Pedro Toledo
4 min
Scorching Global Temps Astound Climate Scientists
Scorching Global Temps Astound Climate Scientists
As wildfire rages in California, flooding affects millions in India and China, and eggs are fried on sidewalks in Iraq, scientists say global climate catastrophe is surpassing predictions
Nika Knight
Demonstrators Demand 'Clean Energy Revolution' on Eve of Dem Convention
Demonstrators Demand 'Clean Energy Revolution' on Eve of Dem Convention
'When it comes to climate change, there’s precious little time for lesser evils; the physics—as scientists are quick to tell us—has put humanity on a deadline.' - Kate Aronoff
Jon Queally
Don't Worry Everyone, The Republican National Committee Just Magically Turned Coal Into "Clean" Energy
Don't Worry Everyone, The Republican National Committee Just Magically Turned Coal Into "Clean" Energy
On the heels of the Democratic party working out their strongest-ever position on climate change, the Republicans opted for a hardline stance in the opposite direction Tuesday. At a policy meeting in advance of next week’s Republican National Convention, the RNC unanimously...
1 min
17Th July 2016 - Strange High Pressure System in the Arctic.
17Th July 2016 - Strange High Pressure System in the Arctic.
A very large high pressure system in the Arctic has counter clockwise winds. (In the northern hemisphere high pressure systems should have clockwise winds.)
4 min
Y ESE MAR QUE TRANQUILO TE BAÑA 2
Y ESE MAR QUE TRANQUILO TE BAÑA 2
This is the second video for our nonprofit campaing to keep the oceans clean for those who live there.
30 min
Y ESE MAR QUE TRANQUILO TE BAÑA 1
Y ESE MAR QUE TRANQUILO TE BAÑA 1
We made this video as a contribution to create consciousness to keep the ocean clean forthe animal who live there.
30 min
The Burning Question
The Burning Question
As Africa faces its biggest humanitarian crisis in decades, 'The Burning Question' explores the links between hunger and drought in African countries like Malawi and developed countries continued reliance on the fossil fuels that drive climate change.
30 min
The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger
The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bill Nye is feeling down. He's visiting his therapist – Dr. Arnold Schwarzenegger – wondering why he doesn't feel like himself lately. He feels as if a horrible weight is on his shoulders. The therapist listens sympathetically, and diagnoses the cause. Bill is suffering from...
43 min
Singing mermaids invade British Museum to celebrate BP
Singing mermaids invade British Museum to celebrate BP
On Sunday, a troupe of singing merfolk invaded the British Museum to celebrate the museum's climate-trashing sponsor, BP, and its new exhibition 'Sunken Cities'. Rising sea-levels might be great news for merfolk but they're disastrous for the rest of us. So now we need your...
2 min
Artists of Color at Heart of Environmental Movement
Artists of Color at Heart of Environmental Movement
Artist Favianna Rodriguez and political commentator Van Jones have a lot in common. They both came up through the grassroots activism scene of the Bay Area in the late 1990s. They both run non-profit organizations/initiatives — respectively, CultureStrikeand 
3 min
The Intersection of Politics and Spirituality in Addressing the Climate Crisis: an Interview With Mohammed Mesbahi
The Intersection of Politics and Spirituality in Addressing the Climate Crisis: an Interview With Mohammed Mesbahi
The following interview with STWR’s founder, Mohammed Mesbahi, examines both the contemporary political and profounder spiritual implications of sharing the world’s resources in relation to the escalating climate emergency. Beginning with a policy-related discussion of the...
Mohammed Mesbahi
7 Things You Should Do After Watching 'How to Let Go of the World'
7 Things You Should Do After Watching 'How to Let Go of the World'
My new film How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change debuted on HBO June 27th.
Josh Fox
Enter the Film4climate Global Video Competition
Enter the Film4climate Global Video Competition (trailer)
Animated Trailer inspiring submissions to the #Film4Climate Global Video Competition: www.film4climate.net
1 min
Portraits: Daniel Casado
Portraits: Daniel Casado
We interviewed Daniel Casado, chilean environmental photgrapher for our webseries called "Retratos"  (Portraits). 
2 min
As Britain Exits, the Need for a Strong Climate Movement Remains
As Britain Exits, the Need for a Strong Climate Movement Remains
Britain’s vote last night to leave the European Union will be a disaster for the climate — both physical and political — on both sides of the Atlantic.
Kate Aronoff
Thoughts on the Revolution, June 16, 2016
Thoughts on the Revolution, June 16, 2016
Time to dig deep, dig in, and double down
Liam Miller
World's Banks Driving Climate Chaos With Hundreds of Billions in Extreme Energy Financing
World's Banks Driving Climate Chaos With Hundreds of Billions in Extreme Energy Financing
Wall Street continues to back the most polluting fossil fuel industries "at the expense of some of the most vulnerable communities on the planet," states new report
Lauren McCauley
Watch People Listening to an Audio Recording of Noam Chomsky's Warning to the World
Watch People Listening to an Audio Recording of Noam Chomsky's Warning to the World
A video of people listening to an interview with political activist and intellectual, Noam Chomsky, somehow manages to transform the abstract into the actual. It is unclear who the people in the video are, but what does becomes clear is that these people are able to convey...
13 min
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)
Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst...
127 min
Planetary Crisis: We Are Not All in This Together
Planetary Crisis: We Are Not All in This Together
“Climate change and extreme weather events are not devastating a random selection of human beings from all walks of life. There are no billionaires among the dead, no corporate executives living in shelters, no stockbrokers watching their children die of malnutrition.”
Ian Angus
Down With Guilt! There Are Much Better Ways to Get People to Act on Climate Change.
Down With Guilt! There Are Much Better Ways to Get People to Act on Climate Change.
How do you get people to do something about climate change? For years, the answer has been to prod people into thinking about their role in causing it, to guilt trip them into action. Because any human who happens to live in North America has taken advantage of central...
Heather Smith
Meet The People Taking Direct Action, Saying No to Coal
Meet The People Taking Direct Action, Saying No to Coal
Huck's Michael Segalov headed down to the Ende Gelände camp in Germany to meet the activists putting their bodies on the line to take the fight against climate change to its very heart.
6 min
Keep It in the Ground or Bust
Keep It in the Ground or Bust
7 reasons why fossil fuel industries should break their carbon bubble
Isatis Marié Cintrón Rodríguez
The Climate Changers
The Climate Changers (2016)
The Climate Changers is a short documentary about civil society engagement during the historic climate conference (COP 21) in Paris in December 2015. Journalist Samuel Schlaefli and filmmaker Esther Petsche joined activists and visited them in their ateliers, in cultural...
47 min
The many-faced fight of climate change
The many-faced fight of climate change
I am island born. Growing up with wind styling my hair, the sun kissing my salty skin and sand between my toes, I was told it could all be taken away. I fail to pin-point a specific moment in time where my climate action story began.
Isatis Marié Cintrón Rodríguez
«THE CLIMATE CHANGERS» Will Be Released Online on World Environmental Day 05/06/2016!
«THE CLIMATE CHANGERS» Will Be Released Online on World Environmental Day 05/06/2016!
«The Climate Changers» is a short documentary about civil society engagement during the historic climate conference (COP 21) in Paris in December 2015. Journalist Samuel Schlaefli and filmmaker Esther Petsche joined activists and visited them in their ateliers, in cultural...
Esther Petsche
The Boiling Pot of 2016
The Boiling Pot of 2016
On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil is going up a bit: that means the cost of driving is also creeping higher, but steeper...
Richard Heinberg
Drought Be Damned: Has the 20th-Century Promise of America’s Dams Run Its Course?
Drought Be Damned: Has the 20th-Century Promise of America’s Dams Run Its Course?
The water crisis in the West has renewed debate about the effectiveness of major dams, with some pushing for the enormous Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to be decommissioned.
Abrahm Lustgarten
The Faux Insurgency of the Climate Change Deniers and the Need for Closure
The Faux Insurgency of the Climate Change Deniers and the Need for Closure
Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos, lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Kurt Cobb
Scientists Puzzled by Slowing of Atlantic Conveyor Belt, Warn of Abrupt Climate Change
Scientists Puzzled by Slowing of Atlantic Conveyor Belt, Warn of Abrupt Climate Change
Scientists are increasingly warning of the potential that a shutdown, or even significant slowdown, of the Atlantic conveyor belt could lead to abrupt climate change, a shift in Earth’s climate that can occur within as short a timeframe as a decade but persist for decades or...
Mike Gaworecki
Offshore Drilling - Alaska Native POV
Offshore Drilling - Alaska Native POV
The Sierra Club along with a host of other environmentally conscious organizations hosted a rally against Offshore Drilling in Washington, DC that featured the voices of Indigenous People from Alaska whose traditional way of life is threatened by fossil fuels.
2 min
Brexit, An Open Letter
Brexit, An Open Letter
On Morality and Fear
TTRP
Hope and Burnout in the Anthropocene
Hope and Burnout in the Anthropocene
To build a lasting movement for climate justice, activists must decouple hope from victory and confront their fatigue head-on
Forrest Watkins
Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate
Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate
Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...
Steven Gorelick
Drenched Performers Occupy BP-Sponsored British Museum
Drenched Performers Occupy BP-Sponsored British Museum
On Tuesday night, a load of VIP guests - including officials from BP and the Egyptian government - arrived at the British Museum to launch the new 'Sunken Cities' exhibition. Activist performers "BP or not BP?" were also there - and refused to leave...
2 min
Shocking Aerial Images Show Extent of Canada's Oilsands Operation
Shocking Aerial Images Show Extent of Canada's Oilsands Operation
Alex MacLean is one of America’s most famed and iconic aerial photographers. His perspective on human structures, from bodies sunbathing at the beach to complex, overlapping highway systems, always seems to hint at a larger symbolic meaning hidden in the mundane. By...
Written by Carol Linnitt - Photographs by Alex MacLean
The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative
The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative
Lodged between two of the most populated countries on earth — India and China — Bhutan may be small at 700,000 souls, but it has a mighty role to play in showing the world how to preserve the environment, while also cultivating happiness in its human population. In fact, the...
Carolanne Wright
Millions of Americans Now Claim Donald Trump Does Not Exist
Millions of Americans Now Claim Donald Trump Does Not Exist
On May 13 the American news media reported that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had recruited U.S. Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota—a major oil drilling state—to help him draft his energy policy. Cramer has said he does not believe...
Richard Heinberg
Art Activists Crash the Press Launch of BP's 'Sunken Cities' Exhibition
Art Activists Crash the Press Launch of BP's 'Sunken Cities' Exhibition
"Do you know what irony is?" BP is sponsoring an exhibition called 'Sunken Cities' at the British Museum. You could NOT make this up. So theatrical action group "BP or not BP?" crashed the press launch with a giant artwork, in solidarity with communities fighting BP in Egypt.
2 min
'Not a Symbol, a Signal': Wave of Direct Actions Points to Fossil-Free Future
'Not a Symbol, a Signal': Wave of Direct Actions Points to Fossil-Free Future
On final day of two-week Break Free mobilization, demonstrations take place in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Turkey, and beyond
Deirdre Fulton
Days of Revolt: Coping With Reality
Days of Revolt: Coping With Reality
In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews climate change activist Tim DeChristopher about the deadly failure of industrial world to confront the effects of climate change. The two discuss how climate change has, and continues to trigger social tension and...
28 min
The Hottest Year on Record Signals That Global Warming Is Alive and Well
The Hottest Year on Record Signals That Global Warming Is Alive and Well
The year 2015 has proven to be another year of temperature records. Data released by NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) show that in 2015, the global mean surface temperature – the yardstick scientists use to measure air
Kevin Trenberth
Old-Growth Forests Can Help Preserve Biodiversity in a Warming World
Old-Growth Forests Can Help Preserve Biodiversity in a Warming World
The towering canopies and dense understories of old-growth forests might be able to help protect biodiversity as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research
Mike Gaworecki
Disgruntled Royalty
Disgruntled Royalty
We are the disgruntled royalty, ungrateful, because we're ignorant of our grand status.
14 min
The Big Fuck Off Elephant in the Room
The Big Fuck Off Elephant in the Room
The true cause of immigration and the real enemy
Dan Ashman
Wind Turbine Laser Art
Wind Turbine Laser Art
The Netherlands is one of the countries that embraced wind-based technology the quickest, but not without some complaints. The Dutch often feel that the wind turbines are loud and ugly. Hoping to change public opinion, artist Daan Roosegaarde created an art piece, Windlicht...
2 min
Yes, It's Okay to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
Yes, It's Okay to Talk About Climate Change Right Now
With the largest evacuation in the history of the province of Alberta displacing nearly 100 000 people as large sections of Fort McMurray burn to the ground in the middle of a spring heat wave, it’s only natural for people affected to ask “why?” Why is this happening? What...
Nicholas Ellan
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
41 min
In Celebration of a Beautiful Action to Shut Down the UK's Largest Opencast Coal Mine
In Celebration of a Beautiful Action to Shut Down the UK's Largest Opencast Coal Mine
A report on the peaceful direct action that shut down the Ffos-y-Fran coal mine in Wales
Andrew Butler
Mangroves : Reducing the Risk of Disaster Through Nature-Based Solutions
Mangroves : Reducing the Risk of Disaster Through Nature-Based Solutions
The coastal mangrove forest is the buffer between land and sea, playing the critical role of protecting the land and coastal communities from storms, wind and erosion. The short documentary takes us to an island in Southern Thailand illustrating how mangroves have depleted...
8 min
Haiti Kid With Camera Hits Hollywood in his film he promote change
Haiti Kid With Camera Hits Hollywood in his film he promote change
HELLO AMERICA!—We have got to face and understand the effect Hollywood has on millions of people all over the world. When they first view those magic moving images in a theater or on a home screen, something happens and suddenly there is an intense desire to see more. On the...
Romane Simon
Climate Change Crisis (Bernie Sanders Vs Hillary Clinton)
Climate Change Crisis (Bernie Sanders Vs Hillary Clinton)
What are Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton going to do about Climate Change? We are under attack, and the attack is coming from climate change. Al Gore warns Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton of the the danger of burning fossil fuels at Senate Environmental Committee...
4 min