TNYT, Dec. 16, 2020
They are the only plant species in California honored and protected by national parks that bear their names. They attract crowds from around the world.
But 2020 was not a good year for the coast redwood, the Joshua tree or the giant sequoia. Already under long-term thre...
A new report shows the scale of lending and underwriting to fossil-fuel companies since the signing of the Paris agreement.
By Todd Gillespie
December 9, 2020, 9:00 PM MST
Almost five years after countries signed the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, financial institutions are s...
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The Arctic continued its unwavering shift toward a new climate in 2020, as the effects of near-record warming surged across the region, shrinking ice and snow cover and fueling extreme wildfires, scientists said Tuesday in an annual assessment of the ...
By Mojtaba Sadegh, Ata Akbari Asanjan and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh The Conversation
More than 4 million acres of California went up in flames in 2020 — about 4% of the state’s land area and more than double its previous wildfire record. Five of the state’s six largest fires on record were burning thi...
By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans
The Associated Press
As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming...
By The Associated Press
GENEVA » Climate change is increasingly damaging the U.N.’s most cherished heritage sites, a leading conservation agency warned Wednesday, reporting that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and dozens of other natural wonders are facing severe threats.
Climate change that has le...
By Dolf Gielen and Morgan Bazilian The Conversation
John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking Kerry to rebuild it again — this time as U.S....
By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON » When John Kerry served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, he helped steer the negotiation of the Paris Agreement, locking down commitments from nearly 200 nations — including his own — to begin to reverse the dange...
By Veronica Penney © The New York Times Co.
New research on the connection between climate change and winter drownings has found that reported drowning deaths are increasing exponentially in areas with warmer winters.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, looked at drownings...
By Michelle Li The Associated Press/Report for America
CHARLESTON, S.C. » Vickie Hicks, who weaves intricate sweetgrass baskets in Charleston, South Carolina’s historic city market, remembers climbing onto the table at her grandmother’s booth downtown when the floodwaters rushed by.
Decades l...
Biden Names Secretary John Kerry as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Secretary Kerry needs no introduction. From signing the Paris Agreement on behalf of the United States as Secretary of State, to forming a bipartisan climate action coalition alongside the next generation of climate activist...
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TNYT Nov 18, 2020 By Coral Davenport and Lisa FriedmanWASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., eager to elevate climate change issues throughout his administration, is already drafting orders to reduce planet-warming pollution and seeking nominees who will embed climate policy not only in e...
By Henry Fountain
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In studying the effects of climate change on hurricanes, scientists have focused on what occurs over water, when storms are forming and strengthening, picking up heat and moisture as they churn over the ocean.
But a new study looks at what happens after ...
Many environmentalists hoped that Joe Biden would become the FDR of climate change.
But if, as seems likely, Biden emerges as the winner of a deeply divisive presidential election, in which the Republican Party retains control of the Senate, it is more likely he will need the skills of an LBJ. And ...
By Christopher Flavelle, Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport TNYT, Published Nov. 9, 2020
Updated Nov. 10, 2020, 4:19 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The White House has removed the scientist responsible for the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s premier contribution to climate knowledg...
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By Frank Jordan and Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
BERLIN » The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact it helped forge five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.
The move, long threatened by U.S. President Donald ...
By Alex Burness The Denver Post
Despite increasing acceptance of the science of climate change across the state, what to do about it remains a politically sensitive question.
Colorado, as in the world in general, is getting hotter, drier and increasingly susceptible to floods and wildfires, a...
By Julian Lee
Bloomberg Opinion
Rather than building a wall along the border with Mexico, the next president of the United States would be better off building a wall along the Gulf of Mexico coastline. Climate change will have a far bigger impact on the country than immigrants from Latin America.
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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE ELECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE By Brad Plumer
Oct. 14, 2020 The New York Times
The presidential election is just weeks away, and climate change has broken through as a defining issue for Americans this year, even amid a historic pandemic and deep economic uncerta...
