By Zeke Miller and Josh Boak
The Associated Press
ROME » President Joe Biden said Sunday a new U.S. and European Union trade agreement would crack down on “dirty steel” that produces carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change and also patch up a trans-Atlantic rift over ...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
World leaders have been meeting for 29 years to try to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier planet.
Trillions of tons of ice have disappeared over that period, the burning of fossil fuels has spewed billions of t...
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China is offering no significant new goals for reducing climatechanging emissions before the U.N. climate summit set to start next week in Glasgow, Scotland.
China, the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases t...
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Emily Swanson and Nathan Ellgren The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increas...
By Andrew E. Kramer
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PEVEK, RUSSIA » A refurbished port. A spanking new plant to generate electricity. Repaved roads. And money left over to repair the library and put in a new esplanade along the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
Globally, the warming climate i...
One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try to curb manmade climate change.
Although the kingdom will aim to reduce emissions within its own...
By Christopher Flavelle, Julian E. Barnes, Eileen Sullivan and Jennifer Steinhauer © The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » Worsening conflict within and between nations. Increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability. Heightened military tension and uncer...
By Jamey Keaten and Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
GENEVA » Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade despite a temporary reduction during pandemic lockdowns, the World Meteorological Organiz...
September 22, 2021 By Yusuf Jameel, Carissa Patrone & Kristen P. Patterson New Security Beat
If raging wildfires, extreme drought, and superstorms haven’t made it clear, the latest IPCC report tells us in plain language: the world is poised for worsening climate impacts over the next 30 y...
Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg Opinion
New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg Opinion
New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
By Lisa Mascaro, Alan Fram and Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON » Scaling down his “build back better” plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government- overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate ...
New study lays out opportunities to slash land-based GHG emissions from forests, farming and consumer behavior
Climate Focus environmental scientist Stephanie Roe and including Project Drawdown senior director of Drawdown Solutions Chad Frischmann among its authors provides a comprehensive guide to...
Google said it will no longer display advertisements on YouTube videos and other content that promotes inaccurate claims about climate change. The decision by the company’s ads team means that it will no longer permit websites or YouTube creators to earn advertising money via Google for content that...
By Nick Perry
The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND » The pandemic has shown that humans are very good at responding to an immediate crisis, says New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister James Shaw. But when it comes to dealing with a slower-moving threat, such as climate change, he sa...
“I love it … it’s in my DNA”
Vaughn, Markle study ice cores to learn from past, process present
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Most people might think ahead to their lunch break, weekend or the end of the year. Bruce Vaughn and Bradley Markle think hundreds of thousands of yea...
By Philip Marcelo| and David Porter
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » When the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record breaking rain on the East Coast this month, staircases leading into New York City’s subway tunnels turned into waterfalls.
In Philadelphia, a commuter line along ...
By Brad Plumer and Winston Choi-Schagrin
© The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden has framed this moment as the country’s best chance to save the planet.
“The nation and the world are in peril,” he said weeks ago in the New York City borough of Queens, where 11 pe...
WASHINGTON » Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to a report by the United Nations’ weather agency.
Global water management is “fr...
By Lisa Friedman
© The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration Wednesday announced it would restore climate change protections to the nation’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act, which former President Donald Trump had weakened to speed the ap...
