Laura Paddison
@laurapaddison
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Senior climate writer @CNNi | before @Guardian, @HuffPost Any tips to: [email protected]
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Joined November 2011
I went to Mexico to try to unravel why a former shipwreck-hunting company turned seabed miner is suing the country for billions of dollars. It was a twisty story
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Local fishers helped halt underwater mining off Baja California’s coast in 2018. But then an obscure international legal process was put into motion
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RT @cnnasiapr: China made a bet decades ago because it couldn’t compete with the US on cars. That bet is paying off big. @laurapaddison and….
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By any measure, China’s EV growth has been extraordinary — more than half of new cars sold last year were electric. The global implications could be staggering.
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Trump has revived the idea of the US buying Greenland. Here's why this vast Arctic island is so appealing to him
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US President-elect Donald Trump says owning the Arctic island is vital for national security, but experts say he may also be eyeing other aspects of Greenland such as its trove of natural resources
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Last month I went to Iceland to understand more about the complex relationship Icelanders have with volcanoes. I spoke to Klara, who was forced to evacuate the town she's lived in her whole life when the eruptions started:
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CNN’s Laura Paddison meets with a former resident of Grindavik in southwest Iceland who – along with the rest of the town’s 3,600 residents – was forced to evacuate amid intensifying volcanic...
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In the 1970s, a hugely successful public health programme to provide clean water ended up slowly poisoning people. The impacts are still being felt and new research suggests climate change could make the problem worse -- all over the world
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I wrote about wellness influencers who have expanded from conspiracy theories about the pandemic to conspiracy theories about climate change
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The combination of wellness, disinformation and conspiracy flourished in the pandemic. But as interest in COVID-19 waned, some influencers are latching onto a new topic
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RT @CaulfieldTim: Wellness influencers fueled pandemic misinformation. Now they have another big conspiracy in their sights: .
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RT @helenscales: A US mining firm sued Mexico for refusing permission to tear up the seabed. Shocking and urgent report from @laurapaddison….
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Local fishers helped halt underwater mining off Baja California’s coast in 2018. But then an obscure international legal process was put into motion
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RT @chrismichaelgdn: I hope people check out this story I've been working on for a long time w @laurapaddison. It's about a US mining firm….
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Local fishers helped halt underwater mining off Baja California’s coast in 2018. But then an obscure international legal process was put into motion
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RT @MichaelEMann: "A critical climate goal may be ‘deader than a doornail,’ and scientists are bitterly divided over it [I disagree with th….
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Countries agreed in 2015 to try and keep global warming to 1.5 degrees. But what if the battle to stay under this limit has already been lost?
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RT @LawrenceCarter1: 🚨CCR is hiring 🚨. We're recruiting a junior investigations reporter and will be adding a more senior position soon.….
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RT @ElizaTalks: A year in the making and it’s amazing to see our 8-chapter installation at #COP28 on climate and gender in the flesh!. @BPT….
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RT @Simon_Cullen: A look at per capita emissions for the top 20 emitters. Australia is almost top of the list. More from CNN's @laurapaddi….
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RT @annette_choi: As climate chaos accelerates, here are the countries polluting the most. Some big numbers to keep in mind as #COP28 kicks….
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"It began with a law about heat pumps. It ended with stones being thrown at politicians and a surge in popularity for the far right." @ella_nilsen and I took a look at climate change and the culture wars
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RT @MichaelEMann: "The planet is heating up faster than predicted, says scientist who sounded climate alarm in the 1980s" by @LauraPaddison….
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“Where do we get water?” The water situation in Gaza is fast becoming desperate as the fuel needed to power pumps and treatment plants runs out
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Mohammad Al Shanti is forced to travel nearly four miles to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza to fill up plastic bottles with water. It’s only enough for his family’s most basic needs.
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Switzerland's glaciers have lost a "mind-blowing" volume of ice in just two years, new figures show
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Glaciers in Switzerland are shrinking at a “mind-blowing” rate. A total of 10% of their ice volume has disappeared over a period of just two years as a combination of low snowfall and soaring...
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RT @cnnipr: New analysis from the World Weather Attribution initiative found that planet-warming pollution made the deadly rainfall in Liby….
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The deadly rainfall which caused catastrophic flooding and destruction in Libya, as well as other parts of the Mediterranean, this month was made much more likely and worse by the human-caused...
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