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Vancouver police arrest 3 climate change protesters after downtown intersection blocked
Around 50 people blocked traffic in downtown Vancouver on Saturday to draw attention to climate change. Vancouver police arrested three of the protesters for mischief and intimidation as they blocked a road.
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Posted: Feb 28, 2021 11:57 AM PT | Last Updated: February 28
Protesters lie on the ground outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver during a protest Saturday to call for government action to address the climate and ecological crisis.(Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press )
A group of climate change activists known around the world for their dramatic protests and willingness to be arrested blocked traffic in downtown Vancouver on Saturday.
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Banks And Investors Are Still Pouring Billions Into Coal Companies
New research reveals the scale of the money that continues to flow to the dirtiest fossil fuel, despite the accelerating climate crisis.
Coal is the number-one single source for increasing global temperatures, with coal-fired electricity generation accounting for 30% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. And yet, scores of banks and institutional investors continue to pump money into supporting and expanding this fossil fuel industry, new research finds.
As of January 2021, institutional investors such as pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies around the world held investments worth more than $1 trillion in coal, with U.S. investors collectively holding 58% of the institutional investment in the global coal industry.
Doctor Shayna Whitaker inspects a sea turtle, which had been stunned by freezing temperatures, in Port Aransas, Texas, on Friday. Some 700 sea turtles were rescued in Texas, which, like much of the central and eastern United States, has been in the grip of dangerously cold weather. ANNIE RICE/REUTERS
Extreme weather, disasters show need for immediate global action, experts say
The big freeze in the United States, heavy snowfall in Southern Europe and the Middle East, melting glaciers in the Himalayas and melting polar caps, as well as deaths from extreme weather, have made the ravages of climate change all the more alarming.
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