The U.S. Is Skipping This Year’s Climate Summit. For Many, That’s OK.
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
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COP30 U.N. Climate Talks Are Starting in Brazil. Here’s What to Know.
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.
‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study says
Winds of Melissa’s strength are now five times more frequent due to the climate crisis, research says Every aspect of Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm ever to hit Jamaica, was worsened by the climate crisis, a team of scientists…
Another Dry Spell Hits New England, Raising Alarm About Flash Droughts
Researchers say sudden, short-lived droughts in the region may become more frequent, putting farms, grasslands and water supply systems at risk. By Ryan Krugman Eighty-two percent of New England is experiencing drought conditions, affecting everything from wildfire risk to the…
Trucks Move the Country’s Goods Through This County. As Even More Loom, People Are Pushing Back.
Illinois’ Will County has North America’s largest inland intermodal transport hub. Residents worry about more traffic and pollution from a huge new warehouse complex. By Siri Chilukuri ELWOOD, Ill.—When Terri Papesh says she can’t stand the smell of diesel, she…
Hurricane and Tropical Storm Remnants Impact the Midwest, Too
Storms that move through the region can cause flooding but also provide needed rainfall. By Susan Cosier When hurricanes form, all eyes are on the places where they make landfall—for obvious reasons. But their effects can extend hundreds of miles…
Here are the 5 issues to watch at COP30 in Brazil
Global leaders will gather in northern Brazil next week to begin the 30th annual Conference of the Parties, or COP30, the United Nations climate summit that takes stock of just how much the world’s nations are doing to address climate…
Rising energy bills are rewiring American politics
It has been a big week in energy news, with several resounding wins for efficiency advocates. On Tuesday, voters in Georgia flipped two seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, which oversees utilities and sets rates. They installed a pair…
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers…
‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future Solomon Morris Makau checks the fallen tree for snakes before he…