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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
From 9 to 20 November, governments, scientists, activists, corporate lobbyists, diplomats, Indigenous Peoples and communities affected by climate change will gather in Antalya, Türkiye, for COP31, the annual UN climate conference. COP31…
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ENVIRONMENT
The call came late on a Wednesday afternoon in October, when the forecast cone stopped wobbling and started pointing steadily toward the Florida Panhandle. Tracie Hodson, who runs FavorHouse of Northwest Florida in Pensacola, decided to…
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ENVIRONMENT
As demand for artificial intelligence surges worldwide, China is looking to its renewable energy sector for an advantage in the race to build the data centers that fuel the technology. Its vast wind, solar and battery industries could help…
Owning a home is billed as a way to build wealth. For many, it's turning into a trap.
As the cost of living rises, a poll for Grist from Data for Progress suggests voters are connecting the dots to a warming world.
The cuts, compounded by the rollback of Inflation Reduction Act grants, deepen decades of federal underinvestment in Indian Country.
The project was due to receive £200 million in grant funding from the UK Government but Chancellor John Healey changed the commitment in the Budget.
A change in federal policy is allowing the Nation to plug abandoned wells more quickly — and raising questions about who is ultimately responsible for thousands of them.
'Climate change' has nearly vanished from many Democrats' campaign pitch, replaced by electricity prices. What would the party actually do on climate if it won the midterms?
JAKARTA — Michael’s 20-month-old daughter began coughing and had shortness of breath in early October, as thick haze from wildfires blanketed Balikpapan, the capital of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province. He and his wife took the toddler…
A small, venomous primate that scientists thought had gone extinct still survives on Indonesia’s Bangka Island, and to the communities there was never really “lost,” according to a recent study. The Bangka slow loris (Nycticebus bancanus)…
BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
China’s biggest solar companies posted another round of heavy losses, even as improving profit margins hinted that attempts to tackle a chronic industry-wide supply glut might be yielding some results.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
Sacha Dench, known as the "human swan", welcomes new laws banning the sale of lead ammunition.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
The council have deferred a decision on the building of 17 rock groynes after RNLI safety concerns.
BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Japan sold its fifth climate transition bond of the year, remaining the only government to use the designation despite the country’s increasing reliance on fossil fuels since the start of the war in Iran.
BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd., a unit of state-run Coal India Ltd., has filed a draft prospectus with India’s markets regulator for an initial public offering.
Meteorologists say a super El Niño and a subtropical jet stream are to blame for the heavier rain, more torrential storms and bigger floods. Akiko Fujita is in Huntington Beach, California, with more details, and Andrew Kozak is in the…
BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Colorado has spent years pursuing policies aimed at reducing its reliance on natural gas. Despite that, voters are now being asked to make it a right to buy the fossil fuel under the state’s constitution, a status no other such commodity…
Living on the brutal frontline of climate change, locals are urging the world to take urgent action at the upcoming COP31 summit in Antalya - warning that the consequences otherwise will be catastrophic. Alex Croft reports from Fiji
THE GUARDIAN — WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Exclusive: Move to scrap legal requirement to set aside water for environment is ‘extreme even for the NT CLP government’, green group says Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Northern Territory government has…
The SunZia wind farm is a marvel. Why did it take 20 years to build?
Paige Reiring showed up at Woodchuck’s house with a revolver strapped to her hip. She didn’t know anything about the man except that he loved America and hated Flock cameras. He’d reached out to Reiring via TikTok after seeing her videos…
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they’d made a…
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
Staff at Plymouth's aquarium pay tribute to a sand tiger shark believed to be almost 30 years old.
