LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that sets the rice fields of 60-year-old Vo Van Van apart from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It is not complete flooded. That and the giant drone, with a wingspan resembling that of an … Read more
Far more methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world than governments realized, recent aerial and satellite surveys show. That is both a problem for the climate and for human health. It’s also why the U.S. government has tightened regulations on methane leaks and wasteful … Read more
U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors spew out three times as much of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in climate damage annually, a new comprehensive study calculates. But because more than half of these methane emissions come from a small number of oil and gas … Read more
More than 100 world leaders agreed at this year’s United Nations climate summit to make their agriculture and food systems a key part of their plans to fight climate change, aiming for improvements in a sector responsible for around a third of global warming emissions. With livestock responsible for more than half of these emissions, … 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