Articles by John Upton
John Upton is a reporter at Climate Central.
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Aussies open wallets to save climate advisers from new prime minister
Australia's new climate-denying leader scrapped a federal climate task force. Some of his more enlightened countrymen and women are funding it as a nonprofit, instead.
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World’s biggest solar thermal power plant fired up in California
As of Tuesday, the sprawling Ivanpah solar power plant in California's Mojave Desert started supplying electricity to up to 200,000 homes.
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Yarr! Russia says Greenpeace protesters are pirates
Putin threatens Greenpeace activists who took part in a demonstration against offshore drilling in Russian Arctic waters with serious penalties.
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Stellar warming will turn Earth into Venus (eventually)
Life on Earth will meet a fiery demise, and there's no stopping it. Fortunately, it won't happen for another couple billion years.
