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Oil industry insiders will appear before US Congress as powerful companies face a reckoning for the climate crisis.

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Can carbon capture facilities reverse climate change?

World’s biggest such complex will capture 4,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year in boxes like shipping containers.

Machinery for capturing CO2 from the air is placed on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland [File: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters]

Arctic ground ‘literally collapsing’ amid abrupt thaw

Experts say global emissions need to be cut now to limit the release of potent greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost.

Climate scientists point to the Arctic as the place where climate change is most noticeable with dramatic sea ice loss, a melting Greenland ice sheet, receding glaciers and thawing permafrost [File: David Goldman/AP Photo]

‘Historic moment’: Legal experts unveil new definition of ecocide

Authors of draft law want ICC members to adopt it in order to hold big polluters to account.

With humanity facing the catastrophic consequences of a heating climate and plummeting biodiversity, experts say this is the decade to act [File: Bob Strong/Reuters]

Will the Central African Republic return to full-blown war?

Concerns grow as surge in fighting displaces more than 100,000 in a country reeling from years of insecurity.

Aid groups warn that the violence is exacerbating CAR's humanitarian crisis [File: Jack Losh/Al Jazeera]

In Central African Republic, a colossal struggle against COVID-19

Experts warn coronavirus could tear through CAR at ‘lightning spread’ if the vulnerable country does not get support.

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