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With new climate plans, countries could supercharge growth, fight poverty, say experts
Later this year, dozens of countries that have signed the Paris Agreement are due to submit new national climate plans, which ...
Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report
The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work – the president’s latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and ...
Climate change shrinking glaciers faster than ever; 7 trillion tons lost since 2000
The world's glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but ...
Year above 1.5C suggests world is reaching long term warming threshold – studies
The Paris climate treaty commits to curbing warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but 2024 exceeded that for first ...
Invisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us
Another invisible line is the Qinling-Huaihe line, which separates China into two distinct regions: the humid and subtropical south and the dry, temperate north.
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Climate and Environment
By Lisa Friedman At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil. By Raymond Zhong Hit by Wildfire?
Most countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets
Many of the world's biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global ...
This case for climate justice feels like a postcard from another time
In his latest book, Cass R. Sunstein lays out what the U.S. owes to the rest of the world. It might seem obvious and ...
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Was the world’s most influential climate target doomed from the start?
And everybody, I think, who understands both the dynamics of the physical climate system, and also the dynamics of the world energy system, understood that — 1.5 became a campaigning number ...