World's most polluting cities revealed at COP29: NYC, Houston among top emitters
Cities in Asia and the United States emit the most heat-trapping gas that feeds climate change, and Shanghai is the most ...
At UN climate talks, some see wars complicating negotiators' task
One activist who was driven from her home in Sudan by civil war 18 months ago says countries like hers don't have the ...
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Sea level warnings: What coastal cities must prepare for
NASA's new sea level section on the Earth Information Center provides critical data on sea level rise, flooding, and future ...
Opinon: Shell's legal victory is disappointing—but this is not the end for corporate climate litigation
In the first ruling of its kind, the Dutch Hague District Court in 2021 ordered a fossil fuel company, Shell, to slash its ...
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What would it cost to kill coal?
To reimburse investors for the capital involved would cost $5.7trn (equivalent to about three years’ worth of global clean ...
Activists plant trees in Mali but residents strip them for firewood. They say there's no choice
Even some of her fellow tree-planters that day were to blame. Salimata Diabate, who took part in the ceremony last month, ...
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The world’s largest coral was discovered in the South Pacific
The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.
The World Is Looking for a Financial Model to Solve Climate Change. It Doesn’t Have to Look Too Far.
Delegates at COP29 see the private sector as key to finding $2.4 trillion worth of green finance, in a framework that has ...
Azerbaijan’s leader takes a wrecking ball to his own climate talks as calls rise for total ‘overhaul’
From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in ...
The world's glaciers are melting faster than we thought, new research shows
Glaciers have survived through a delicate balance of gain and loss. A new study shows just how much the scale has tipped.
Where are we at with countries' climate contributions?
Argentina has left UN climate talks and US President-elect Donald Trump plans to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.