The United States will work with other governments to accelerate efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, the US climate envoy said John Kerry said Tuesday, marking the latest of many U.S. announcements over the past week aimed at combating climate change. Nuclear fusion fuses two hydrogen atoms together to produce … Read more
Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw from a hole. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn’t supposed to occur north of Cape Cod, let alone … Read more
At least 1,300 employees of organizations representing fossil fuel interests have registered to attend this year’s United Nations climate talks in Dubai, more than three times as many as an Associated Press analysis of the talks shows. last year, when new rules came into effect requiring participants to publicize their work. . Apart from the … Read more
For the first time, food and agriculture were central during the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023. More than 130 countries signed a declaration on December 1 pledging to make their food systems – everything from production to consumption – central to national strategies to tackle climate change. The declaration contains few concrete actions … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ask most people what the annual U.N. climate talks are and the likely answer will be: “Huh?” Ask those who know and the answer may be, “Why should I worry?” The negotiations, called Conference of Parties, last almost two weeks and are in their 28th edition in Dubai. Delegates … Read more
The spread of false narratives surrounding three recent extreme weather events in Latin America shows how climate change disinformation in Spanish and Portuguese can undermine efforts to tackle and mitigate the effects of global warming in the region, according to a new study released Wednesday. Environmental organizations Roots and Friends of the Earth, part of … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pressure to phase out fossil fuels increased Thursday on the oil company chief who took over fragile international climate negotiations that began in Dubai amid concerns about what some say are conflicting dual roles are. The newly installed climate chief started on the right track, and not just because … Read more
By Richard Valdmanis (Reuters) – Hundreds of Catholic institutions around the world have announced plans to divest their finances from oil, gas and coal to help fight climate change. Pope Francis published his groundbreaking encyclical on environmental stewardship in 2015, urging a break from fossil fuels. But in the United States, the world’s largest oil … Read more
The world is headed for significantly less warming than predicted a decade ago, but that good news is being overwhelmed by far more pain from current climate change than scientists expected, experts say. That’s just one of the seemingly contradictory circumstances facing climate negotiators as they gather in Dubai this week for marathon United Nations … Read more
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