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US, China commit to climate cooperation ahead of key summit
Apr 18, 2021 (AFP)
The joint statement came after a trip to Shanghai by US climate envoy John Kerry, the first official from Biden's administration to visit China, signaling hopes...
Youth activists face threats on the frontline of climate change
Apr 16, 2021 (AFP)
"Stop funding our destruction," the 23-year-old shouted outside British bank Standard Chartered at a demonstration in Manila last month against the financing of...
China says climate onus on US in Kerry talks
Apr 16, 2021 (AFP)
The former secretary of state turned US climate emissary was the first official from President Joe Biden's administration to visit China, signalling hopes the t...
US envoy Kerry starts climate talks in China
Apr 15, 2021 (AFP)
The trip is seen as a chance to put aside high political tensions -- following a heated initial meeting last month between diplomats in the US -- and focus on a...
In world first, New Zealand to make banks report climate impact
Apr 14, 2021 (AFP)
Commerce Minister David Clark said the law would make climate reporting mandatory for banks, insurance companies and investment firms. "Becoming the first count...
Young climate activists sue Brazil over 'carbon trick'
Apr 14, 2021 (AFP)
The lawsuit seeks to annul the revised emissions commitments Brazil submitted in December, which effectively increased the country's 2030 carbon target by more ...
Kerry presses climate in first Biden official's trip to China
Apr 13, 2021 (AFP)
The former secretary of state will visit Shanghai as well as the South Korean capital Seoul on a trip starting Wednesday, the State Department confirmed. His tr...
Brazil's Bolsonaro under pressure ahead of climate summit
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
"Brazil is a key country in the global effort to achieve climate balance," said the Brazil Climate, Forests and Agriculture Coalition, a group of more than 280 ...
Climate envoy Kerry praises but prods coal-hungry India
Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)
India is the world's third-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and relies on fossil fuels to generate around two-thirds of its electricity. Its role in tackling g...
Droughts longer, rainfall more erratic over the last 50 years in most of the West
Apr 07, 2021 (SPX)
Against the backdrop of steadily warming temperatures and decreasing total yearly rainfall, rain has been falling in fewer and sometimes larger storms, with lon...
A sun reflector for earth?
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
Every month since September 2019 the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group, a team of internationally recognized experts in climate science and ecology, ha...
To intervene or not to intervene? That is the future climate question
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
Michigan State University community ecologist Phoebe Zarnetske is co-lead of the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group, a team of internationally recognize...
Kerry presses India ahead of Biden climate summit
Apr 06, 2021 (AFP)
A spokesperson for the US embassy in New Delhi, where Kerry arrived on Tuesday for talks with officials and NGOs, said that India was a "critical part of the so...
Kerry vows 'strong' US climate action
Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)
"In a few weeks at our summit the president will annonce our NDC which will be strong," Kerry said at a Paris meeting organised by the International Energy Agen...
British Ministry of Defence announces plans to address climate change
Mar 30, 2021 (UPI)
The department put out a press release Tuesday detailing several steps to address climate change, on the heels of a report outlining its climate change and stab...
Saudi Arabia unveils campaign to tackle climate change
Mar 27, 2021 (AFP)
The OPEC kingpin seems an unlikely champion of clean energy, but the "Saudi Green Initiative" aims to reduce emissions by generating half of its energy from ren...
Major Earth Satellite to Track Disasters, Effects of Climate Change
Mar 26, 2021 (JPL)
Called NISAR, the joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has big goals: By tracking subtle changes in Earth's surface, it ...
Local droughts can have wide-ranging global consequences
Mar 26, 2021 (UPI)
Not only can local scarcity trigger wide-ranging economic impacts, but shifts in global demand can alter the pressure on river basins around the world. The mode...
Biden has invited Putin, Xi to virtual climate summit
Mar 26, 2021 (AFP)
In all, 40 world leaders have been asked to attend the two-day meeting meant to mark Washington's return to the front lines of the fight against man-made climat...
Russia sees record high average temperatures in 2020: institute
Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)
Russia's average annual temperature last year was 3.22 degrees Celsius higher than the average for the period of 1961-1990 and more than one degree higher than ...
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