Author: Nick Stockton

Twenty-one years after the world's leaders first met to try and hammer out a climate agreement, the UN Paris talks succeeded.

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This year saw a global change in the fight against climate change.

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In October, a three part report from Climate Central showed how Europe's appetite for wood is gobbling up forests in the American south faster than they are being planted.

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In March, the Miami News Herald reported that the state's Department of Environmental Protection had an internal embargo on using words like "climate change," and "global warming."

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In a 42,000 word encyclical, the pontiff laid out the strongest moral argument yet for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Clean Power Plan is the lynchpin holding up the promises the US made in Paris.

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Forty years ago, oil company scientists figured out that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet. Instead of warning the world, the company funneled money into denial groups.

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Throughout 2015, crude has sat at around $40 a barrel.

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Forget the fact that it might help ease California's drought. This year's monster El Niño is wreaking havoc pretty much everywhere else in the world.

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Volkswagen's cars were installed with so-called "defeat devices" that would put the vehicles in clean-burning mode during emissions tests.

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