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AP photos reveal intensity, insecurity and inequality in 2023 as world altered by climate change
Punishing heat that hovered and hung on much longer than usual. Flash floods that washed away large swaths of land and life.
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At least 100 elephants die in drought-stricken Zimbabwe park, a grim sign of El Nino, climate change
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Experts at odds over result of UN climate talks in Dubai; ‘Historic,’ ‘pipsqueak’ or something else?
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The last residents of a coastal Mexican town destroyed by climate change
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Heard at UN climate talks: Quotes that tell the story
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At least $2.1 billion in new funds pledged at COP28, as foundations focus on health and agriculture
With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture.
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Will declaration on fossil fuels at UN climate talks lead to action? Consider 5 previous decisions
United Nations climate negotiators have declared the world must transition away from oil, gas and coal.
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Poor countries need trillions of dollars to go green. A long-shot effort aims to generate the cash
A major, long-shot effort is gearing up to mobilize money to save Planet Earth by helping poorer countries go greener.
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As COP28 negotiators wrestle with fossil fuels, activists urge them to remember what’s at stake
As this year’s global climate talks reach a conclusion, activists are hoping that negotiators will listen to their stories as they weigh what to do about the fossil fuels that are warming the planet.
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Sharp disagreements over future of planet-warming fossil fuels at UN climate talks in Dubai
Hopes for finishing a critical climate summit on time faded early Tuesday as countries were still far apart on key issues, including an agreement on what to do about the fossil fuels that are causing dangerous global warming.
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Endangered species list grows by 2,000. Climate change is part of the problem
The International Union for Conservation of Nature, the leading tracker of global biodiversity, released their new Red List of Threatened Species on Monday at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai.
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As COP28 nears finish, critics say proposal ‘doesn’t even come close’ to what’s needed on climate
Countries at United Nations-led climate talks in Dubai moved closer to reaching a final deal on Monday, but critics condemned a draft agreement as a watered-down document that won’t stop dangerous climate change.
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Baku to the future: After stalemate, UN climate talks will be in Azerbaijan in 2024
For years, climate change has been a factor — not the only one — in wars and conflicts, but now for the first time it’s part of a peace deal.
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At COP28, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and adapting to climate as talks near crunch time
Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options and agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks and the summit’s president is determined to finish up talks by Tuesday.
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Agriculture gets its day at COP28, but experts see big barriers to cutting emissions
This year’s global climate summit in Dubai set aside Sunday to spotlight food and agriculture, a sector that accounts for about a third of the world’s emission.
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Brazil’s Lula takes heat on oil plans at UN climate talks, a turnaround after hero status last year
At last year’s climate talks, then Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was received as a hero with chants of “Lula! Lula! Lula!”
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How to adapt to climate change may be secondary at COP28, but it’s key to saving lives, experts say
As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that’s already here.
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Indonesia’s youth clean up trash from waterways, but more permanent solutions are still elusive
Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led.
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Scientists: Climate change intensified the rains devastating East Africa
An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change.
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November is the sixth straight month to set a heat record, scientists say
The European climate agency calculates that for the sixth month in a row, Earth set a new monthly record for heat, and also added the hottest autumn to the litany of record-breaking heat this year.
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At COP28, John Kerry unveils nuclear fusion strategy as a source of clean energy
The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, U.S.
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Global warming could cost poor countries trillions. They’ve urged the COP28 climate summit to help
A prominent developing-world leader on the issue of climate change said Monday that global taxes on the financial services, oil and gas, and shipping industries could drum up hundreds of billions to poorer countries adapt to and cope with global warming.
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Thousands of climate change activists hold boisterous protest march in Brussels with serious message
Thousands of people have marched through the center of Brussels in a boisterous rally highlighting the dangers of climate change, as the COP28 climate summit draws to an end in the United Arab Emirates.
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5 reasons why COP28, the UN climate talks, are worth your attention
The annual U.N. climate talks are nearly two weeks of delegates meeting. They use wonky terms like “NDCs,” “1.5 degrees” and “loss and damage.”
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Young activists who won Montana climate case want to stop power plant on Yellowstone River
Young environmental activists who won a landmark climate change case are trying to persuade the Montana Supreme Court to stop a natural gas power plant being built on the banks of the Yellowstone River.
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Vice President Harris will attend COP28 climate conference in Dubai
Vice President Kamala Harris will join the United States delegation at the upcoming United Nations conference on climate change in Dubai.
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US moves to protect wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction
The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal.
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Longer droughts in Zimbabwe take a toll on wildlife and cause more frequent clashes with people
In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief to its second-largest national park. But elsewhere in the wildlife-rich country, authorities say climate change-induced drought is deadly for animals and plants.
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Climate change hits women’s health harder. Activists want leaders to address it at COP28
With the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP to convene later this month in Dubai, activists are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls.
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New hardiness zone map will help US gardeners keep pace with climate change
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade.
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Two grim reports on global climate efforts highlight increased fossil fuel subsidies, ill health
Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies.
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Worsening warming is hurting people in all regions, US climate assessment shows
A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States.
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How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change
In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — farmers are using all the new strategies they can get to stay afloat and provide for large and small breweries alike.
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Judge in Alaska upholds Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project
A federal judge has upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a massive project that drew the ire of environmentalists who accused the president of backpedaling on his pledge to combat climate change.
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Prominent German leftist to launch a new party that could eat into far-right’s support
A prominent German leftist politician has launched plans to form a new party that some observers think could take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany.
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