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After 35 years of banking with big Australian banks like National Australia Bank, Paula and Peter Samson closed their accounts to protest the lenders' exposure to the polluting fossil fuel industry

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China added nearly 40 per cent less coal- and gas-fired power capacity in the first quarter than it did a year ago mainly due to stronger pollution controls and slower economic growth, a senior gov

A dispute over how a key United Nations report will treat the costs of climate change continues to simmer, with a lead author of the section on economics distancing himself from the summary to be s

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