"After Decades of Resistance, Rich Countries Offer Direct Climate Aid"
"Several European leaders at COP27 announced funds to help poor nations recover from loss and damage caused by climate change. The United States was silent."
"Several European leaders at COP27 announced funds to help poor nations recover from loss and damage caused by climate change. The United States was silent."
"A nonprofit backed by Al Gore and other big environmental donors says it can track emissions down to individual power plants, oil fields and cargo ships."
"John Kerry, the country’s climate envoy, was expected to announce the carbon offset plan on Wednesday. Payments from companies would go to countries struggling to adopt renewable energy."
"Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, beat Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, flipping a Senate seat. J.D. Vance won for Republicans in Ohio. But control of the House and Senate still hangs in the balance."
"The dramatic vanishing of polar ice sheets will cause catastrophic sea level rise that will threaten cities, according to a major new study".
"In the 12-year run-up to hosting the 2022 men’s World Cup soccer tournament, Qatar has been on a ferocious construction spree with few recent parallels."
"The National Park Service dropped an unusual warning recently, urging visitors to stop licking toads."
"Bornite Camp is beyond all the roads in North America, on the southern edge of the massive Brooks Range. It’s home to grizzly bears, and the caribou, moose, and salmon essential to the survival of Alaska Natives who live off the land."
"The Supreme Court says it will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation."
"On Nov. 4, the 41st annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) closed without making significant progress toward the establishment of new marine protected areas (MPAs) and fishery regulations. The scientific community and most delegates to the meeting had urged the adoption of new protections for Southern Ocean ecosystems to buffer damage from climate change and fishing."