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THE GUARDIAN — WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Its key temperature goal has been missed but experts say the agreement is still proving a vital moral compass for progress It was a curious way of conducting negotiations. Ahead of the 2025 climate summit, in the Amazonian port of Belém…
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
The Leonid meteor shower, known for its bright and fast meteors, will kick off this weekend and continue until the end of November.
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ENVIRONMENT
Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma entered the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy in March with a clear priority: pass permitting reform that he argued was necessary based on his experience leading a major natural gas pipeline company. Now, as he…
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ENVIRONMENT
The German government has launched an international initiative to curb emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, an exceptionally potent greenhouse gas that it says has long been overlooked in efforts to address climate change. Announced this week…
BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Can COP31 put the world’s climate goals back on track? Live from Turkey on the opening day of the UN summit, Bloomberg journalists answer your questions in an interactive Live Q&A on Monday, Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. ET
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ENVIRONMENT
This article originally appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times. It has been republished with permission. Joe Gamble knows what to expect when he arrives at work at the Bridgeport Art Center after days of heavy rain. “There was raw sewage…
Years after Indigenous communities in Guatemala were forcibly evicted from their ancestral land, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is asking a court to hold the government responsible and provide reparations. On Oct…
Joshua Bennett's wife described a frantic FaceTime call from her husband as floodwaters trapped his truck on a Brevard County road before the line went dead.
Swept in on the blue wave, new commissioners plan to tackle power bills, clean energy, and data center accountability.
THE GUARDIAN — WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boom Activists have stormed the site of a Microsoft datacentre being built in Amsterdam, as the backlash to the social and environmental…
Like many in the community of Phinaya, in southeastern Peru, Donato Bermúdez makes his living from alpacas. His flock of 500 roams the slopes beneath the vast Quelccaya glacier, the site of the second-largest tropical ice cap in the world…
A block of over 100 countries has pushed for a plan on ocean measures at COP31, as an extreme El Niño breaks temperature records at sea The post ‘Blue COP31’ set to spotlight need for ocean protections amid record heat appeared first on…
ASCEA and CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy, and BARCELONA, Spain — In the early hours of a warm July day, regular rows of still-folded sun umbrellas stand along the shores of Castel Volturno, a coastal town in the Italian region of Campania, located…
BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
The democratic socialist’s agenda includes phasing out pension funds’ fossil-fuel investments, pausing data center construction and electrifying city buildings.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
Rising global temperatures mean extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
Human activities are causing the world to heat up, posing serious threats to people and nature.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
The 2015 pact is at the heart of the international commitment to tackle rising global temperatures.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
Reaching net zero carbon emissions worldwide is essential to limit global warming, UN scientists say.
As climate change intensifies, drought is widening globally, causing alterations in water-dependent pathogen patterns, leaving scientists scrambling to understand how infectious disease transmission is evolving. They’ll need to act quickly…
From the US to Brazil, Israel and Serbia, the far right have been delivered a number of mammoth blows
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“The safety of young people in the digital environment cannot be assessed without also considering the safety of young people in offline environments. For millions of young people around the world, the digital environment is their safe…
Historic flooding prompted dozens of rescues in Georgia and Tennessee. Skyler Henry has more.
Why hasn’t the trial for the 2019 killing of forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara and the attempted killing of fellow guardian Láercio Guajajara, in the Brazilian Amazon, taken place yet? “[T]here are no available slots on the court’s…
COP31 host Turkey is set to push for a "electrification" drive to help meet global elergy demand as the UN climate conference kicks off in Antalya on Monday. The annual summit takes place this year under the shadow of a cost-of-living…
