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UN-backed report finds even temporary rises above Paris agreement target could cause harm to glaciers and polar ice sheetsEarth’s icy regions face such dangerous melting that global heating should be brought back below 1C after an inevitable period of overshooting global temperat
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Plastics have been widely adopted in all sorts of products from food packaging to toys to medical devices, in part because they were believ
When BaRupOn LLC, a California-based developer, bought land in East Texas for a 700-acre industrial campus in 2023, the company received a warm welcome from the state. The developer set out to build numerous data centers and rare-earth manufacturing facilities at the site, as wel
Peat fires are burning across the country, smothering one of the world's most populated countries in smoke.
The path to Trump's 'Arctic dominance' goes through this Alaskan island
Lula’s reelection kept an ally in the presidency, but a rightward shift in Congress leaves Indigenous leaders facing more battles.
New laws are treating cooling as a necessity rather than a luxury, though what landlords must provide varies widely.
Boeing has almost completed the demolition of five buildings at its infamous Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California, even as concerns mount among nearby families about potential health harms. The buildings at the former Rocketdyne facility—where one of the worst nuc
As world leaders struggle to meet deadlines to halt nature loss set four years ago, a rare leopard in host country Armenia offers a symbol of what is at stakeDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Armenian capital Yerevan is chock-a-block right now with
Students across Kalimantan and Sumatra took to the streets to demand government accountability for the wildfires and toxic haze blanketing the region. While Indonesia regularly battles wildfires in the dry season, these blazes are the most intense in more than a decade and exacer
The Nature Conservancy is flooding portions of a delta island to slow land subsidence and create habitat for wildlife.
Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-F
The radical Stern report showed that a low-carbon future is also good economics. But it seems that capitalism needs a reminderSaving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth. There may be costs involved now, but t
This story was produced in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Amid a spate of historic political upsets across Texas, voters in the industrial port city of Corpus Christi on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ci
On 3 November, the Brazilian presidency of the COP30 climate talks released its long-awaited “roadmap” on ending deforestation. Ahead of… The post Q&A: What is the Brazil-led ‘deforestation roadmap’? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Transitioning away from fossil fuels is “urgent, inevitable and, yet, possible”, according to a first-of-its-kind global “roadmap” produced by Brazil.… The post Q&A: What is in the global ‘roadmap’ for transitioning away from fossil fuels? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Cost of living and AI outrank climate change and war as top concerns for future, but support for multiculturalism remains strongGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastThe vast majority of Australians support immigration and multiculturalism despite more feel
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Report reveals financial support promised by rich nations for adaptation measures is well behind the pace that is neededFlows of money to help poor countries cope with the climate crisis have been flat or falling since 2022, despite growing impacts from extreme weather and warnin
Following this year’s UN COP17 biodiversity conference, Carbon Brief’s journalists hosted a livestream to explain what happened at the summit.… The post CB Live: Carbon Brief’s team at COP17 on the nature talks’ key outcomes appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Just in time for Halloween, floodwaters washed into South Florida businesses and submerged roads, forcing residents to drive and walk through shin-high water in what officials called the most intense king tide event ever. The federal government has an ambitious, multibillion-dol
One of the state's largest utilities needs more power to fuel the region's economic ambitions.
Can a utility commit to building massive gas plants and still achieve zero carbon emissions? DTE Electric in southeast Michigan says yes, and it outlines how in a 20-year plan currently being considered by regulators. The key, the utility says, will be carbon capture and sequest
It’s cranberry season in southeastern Massachusetts. At bogs throughout the region, growers are collecting the ruby-red berries destined for holiday cakes, juice bottles, and cans of jellied sauce. At two farms, however, the harvesting process looks a little different: Pickers ar
