By Matthew Brown The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration announced Thursday the suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters for 60 days, as officials moved quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the enviro...
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado leaders on Thursday unveiled a plan two years in the making to cut heat-trapping air pollution in the state by 90% — a reduction of more than 100 tons a year — before 2050 to improve public health and help contain climate warming.
“This is an issue for all...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the Western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday.
Eve...
By Ana Swanson
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WASHINGTON » The Trump administration Wednesday announced a ban on imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Xinjiang area of China, as well as all products made with those materials, citing human rights violations and the widespread use of f...
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At least 30 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet, including land and sea, over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues, during a global summit Monday aimed at protecting the world's biodiversity. About 30 leader...
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WASHINGTON » Hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters across the United States caused $95 billion in damage last year, according to new data, almost double the amount in 2019 and the third-highest losses since 2010.
The new figures, ...
By Ernesto Londoño
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RIO DE JANEIRO » After years of whipping up large vegan meals for an ashram in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro, Luiza de Marilac Tavares found her life upended and herself out of a job when the pandemic forced the center to shut down.
She started c...
The Resistance: In the President’s Relentless War on Climate Science, They Fought Back
Scientists' efforts were often unseen and sometimes unsuccessful. But over four years, they mounted a guerilla defense that kept pressure on the Trump Administration.
By Marianne Lavelle
December 27, 2020
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By Katherine J. Wu
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Weighing up to 380,000 pounds and stretching some 100 feet long, the blue whale — the largest creature to have lived on Earth — might at first seem difficult for human eyes and ears to miss.
But a previously unknown population of the leviathans has long...
By Anita Snow The Associated Press GUADALUPE CANYON, ARIZ. » Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump’s border wall before his term ...
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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...
By Liam Denning
Bloomberg Opinion
The Mukluk well, drilled in the unforgiving waters north of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, is the stuff of awful legend in oil circles. When it came up dry in 1983 after $2 billion had been sunk, some surmised oil had definitely been there at one point but perhaps shifted ...
By The Associated Press
DETROIT » Nissan said Friday that it will no longer support the Trump administration in its legal fight to end California’s ability to set its own auto-pollution and gas-mileage standards.
The announcement is another sign that a coalition of automakers backing the outgoing ...
By Jan M. Olsen
The Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK »
Denmark has decided to end all oil and gas activities in the North Sea by 2050 and has canceled its latest licensing round, saying the country is “now putting an end to the fossil fuel era.”
The Danish Parliament voted late Thursday to e...
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 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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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 ...
