
The White House said Wednesday the program will employ more than 20 ...

President Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps

ROYALE WELCOME: Luminaries including Mick Jagger and Hugh Grant joined Britain's King Charles III as he and Queen Camilla were hosted for a state dinner by ... Show more
Quick Glance: King Charles impresses Paris
- King Charles III and President Emmanuel Macron were cheered by a large crowd on the Champs-Élysées.
- The experience was different from watching on TV, leaving people disappointed.
- However, in Paris, the people did not come.
- The King, simply by being the King, created an emotional atmosphere that enthralled the parliamentarians.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro joins Democracy Now! for ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy

A majority of the population is demanding greater efforts from politicians to protect ...

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24 percent of Germans do not believe in man-made climate change

Insurance is supposed to signal risk. Policymakers should let it

Climate change is coming for America’s property market

The state of California has filed a lawsuit against some of the ...

California lawsuit says oil giants deceived public on climate, seeks funds for storm damage
Quick Glance: California lawsuit accuses oil giants of climate deception and seeks damages
- Lawsuit calls for creation of fund to finance recovery efforts after storms and fires
- Governor Gavin Newsom demands accountability from named companies
- American Petroleum Institute argues for climate debate in Congress, not the courtroom
- Lawsuit alleges disinformation campaign by companies to discredit climate change consensus

WATCH LIVE: 2023 United Nations General Assembly - Day 5
Quick Glance: 2023 UN General Assembly - Day 4
- Day 4 of the high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly with world leaders in New York.
- Sudan's General Abdel Fattah Burhan warned world leaders: 'This is the spark of a war that will spill over to other countries in the region.'
- Sudan entered into conflict in April when tensions escalated between Burhan-led military and rival Rapid Support Forces commanded by Dagalo.
- Burhan urged the UN to designate RSF as a terrorist group for committing 'all sorts of crimes.'

Heat pumps use little electricity, yet are able to heat and cool buildings ...

Governors, Biden administration push to quadruple efficient heat pumps by 2030

Massachusetts buys about 100,000 of the plastic water bottles each ...

Massachusetts becomes first to ban purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies

The White House says the program will provide paid training to 20 ...

Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal
Quick Glance: Biden launches American Climate Corps, inspired by the New Deal
- President Biden pledged to create the Climate Corps during his first week in office.
- A program aimed at engaging young climate activists.
- The American Climate Corps is based on a program that provided employment to millions during the Great Depression.
- According to President Biden's climate policy advisor, Ali Zaidi, the program has broader goals beyond addressing the climate crisis.

A growing number of homeowners are finding it difficult to afford insurance ...

report
Worsening climate disasters could spark insurance rate surges for millions

A comprehensive and resilient U.S. strategy must avoid the distortions of a heavy-handed industrial ...

The climate work we must do now to meet our 2050 goals

[STANDFIRST] Climate change is extending the growing season and causing a boom for the UK's wine industry.

Good Year for British Vineyards, Says RHS

Until the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the average taxpayer gave $2,375 each year to the military—and ...

Budget for Climate Action, Not War
António Guterres says ‘Humanity has opened the gates to hell’ as he warns of a ...

UN chief criticises ‘foot-dragging’ and ‘naked greed’ for lack of climate action
Quick Glance: UN Secretary-General Criticizes Delay and Greed for Insufficient Climate Action
- António Guterres warns of a 2.8°C global temperature increase and states that humanity has opened the gates to hell.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres criticizes world leaders for being decades behind in transitioning away from fossil fuels.
- The Paris Agreement of 2015, signed by almost 200 parties, aims to limit the rise in global average temperatures to well under 2°C and ideally to 1.5°C.
- The summit featured representatives from 34 governments and seven non-governmental organizations, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the President of the World Bank, the CEO of insurer Allianz, and the head of the UN's Green Climate Fund.

In new last-generation protests, angry drivers in Berlin are trying to clear blocked ...

Last generation in Berlin
Driver sprays irritant gas on climate activists

Worrying temperatures and devastating storms show: The ocean is out of balance. There is hardly any ...

Temperature of the world's oceans
the sea in turmoil

Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy explain what it will take to channel private ...

What Climate Finance Needs | by Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy
Project Syndicate

There’s nothing long term about the prime minister diluting green policies in the hope ...

Cynical Rishi sells net zero targets down the river to appease the right

Global warming is also penetrating the deeper layers of the oceans: ...

Up to a depth of 2000 meters
Heat waves particularly affect the deeper layers of the ocean

Dyson's View: Rupert Murdoch exits.
Illustrator: Andrew Dyson.
Read the letters to the editor here: tinyurl.com/s4mtd5us

LIVE: UN chief Antonio Guterres holds Climate Ambition Summit during UNGA
A summit begins on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to press ... Show more

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he’s delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel ...

UK leader Rishi Sunak delays ban on new gas and diesel cars by 5 years

This extraordinarily honest eco-documentary sees the nature ...

Chris Packham
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Next Saturday, the autumn equinox will mark the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. For some ...

How climate change is making fall foliage less colorful

Australia is officially in an El Niño event after a La Niña pattern brought three years of cool ...

El Niño has officially been declared. But what does that mean?
Quick Glance: Meteorology Bureau Announces El Nino
- Official announcement from the Bureau of Meteorology confirming the onset of El Nino.
- Meteorologist predicts El Nino to persist until the end of summer, leading to warm and dry conditions.
- Concerns of scorching spring and summer in Australia with reduced rainfall due to El Nino.
- Possible amplification of El Nino's effects through interaction with another climate driver.

California will now let insurance companies consider climate change when offering ...

California paves way for more insurance coverage in disaster-prone areas

🇺🇳 #Zelensky , the war in #Ukraine , Joe Biden, climate change and South Africa's Cyril Rhamaposa.
Here's a round-up from Tuesday's proceedings at the 78th UN General ... Show more

The Ukrainian president joined many world leaders in calling for changes at the ...

Zelensky Tells U.N. Security Council It’s Useless While Russia Has a Veto

Human error is another major element that led to the severity of the event.

Report
Climate change made Libya flooding 50 times more likely

The Last Generation blocked numerous intersections in Berlin's rush hour ...

After 20 blockades in Berlin
Police file 158 criminal charges against Last Generation

There are several possible explanations for the gigantic and mysterious ice loss in Antarctica ...

Extreme ice loss points to new Antarctic era

Climate Change made the heavy rainfall that led to deadly floods in Libya up to ...

study
Climate Change made Libya's deadly rainfall up to 50 times more likely
US Treasury sets out new voluntary ‘principles’ to spur investment and combat ...

NY climate week
Yellen warns of ‘significant economic costs’ of climate change

California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman on Wednesday called out his ...

California Democrat quips he serves ‘with some of the greatest minds of the 19th century’

Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing ...

America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club | by Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns
Project Syndicate

A colossal water year has only bought Utah two more years to keep the lake from ...

A year after Great Salt Lake’s record low, half the lake is left for dead
Quick Glance: Is Tap Water Safe?
- Water is beneficial unless you are not up to date with the latest scientific findings.
- According to the global Environmental Performance Index 2022, an annual Yale study, we rank among the top six countries globally with no reported diseases related to our water infrastructure.
- If you are drinking water from the tap, it is unlikely that you will consume anything harmful.
- There are significant differences depending on the bottler.

An accountant by trade, Sarah Hasan Al-Sayegh also tracks savage storms ...

This storm chaser captures stunning photographs of extreme weather

The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a ...

Sponsor an ocean? Tiny island nation of Niue has a novel plan to protect its slice of the Pacific

Tens of thousands of protestors kicked off a march in New York City ...

Thousands of climate activists march in NYC, calling on Biden to declare climate emergency

The leaders of a divided world gather under one roof to hear ...

UN chief says people are looking to leaders for action and a way out of the current global 'mess'
John Kerry expresses frustrations at fossil fuel-reliant countries and companies

US climate chief rails at Asian coal as geopolitical tensions shadow UN summit

Ask A Reporter is the live meet-up series where Times journalists discuss the news and answer questions about the stories we cover.
City Editor Maria L ... Show more


The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new competitive grants ...

Biden administration announces $4.6B grant program to reduce planet-warming pollution
Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 18 percent ...

“Devastating”
Bavaria’s CO₂ emissions are falling significantly more slowly than in the federal government

The war in Ukraine, world food supply and climate change are being discussed as leaders descend of NYC.

Rishi Sunak looks set to weaken key climate pledges in a move that has drawn heavy ...

Tory backlash as Sunak suggests he will water down net zero pledges

The US, a major backer of the IMF, has been pushing to refine the mission of the global lender.

IMF pledges to stay in 'our lane' on climate

Anyone mildly abreast on the weather will know that last week the Bureau of Meteorology declared an El Nino was ...

‘I’m nervous’
Double whammy El Nino fears

JET-SETTING JOHN: GOP senator roasts Biden's climate czar flying on private jet while Americans pay the price for climate change policies.trib.al/sLggwJ3

The Mayor of London is expected to speak at the United Nations climate ambition summit on Wednesday.

Sadiq Khan flies to New York for global climate summit

Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired ‘Queen of Technicolor’ celebrated for her on-screen chemistry with ...

So which Naomi do you think I am? The saga of Klein vs Wolf

As the world is on track to break the record for the hottest year in history, world leaders ...

Climate takes centre-stage at un as global temperatures rise

Protesters are demanding an end to fossil fuels as the UN warned that its 2015 sustainable development ...

Climate change
Thousands march in NYC ahead of UN summit

The balloons carry small devices that record real-time data forecasters ...

Up, up and away
How balloons help Singapore weather forecasting soar to new heights

Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels ...

PHOTOS
Tens of thousands of activists march to kick off climate summit in New York

The energy transition was “dangerously off course”. The World Climate Conference must act, writes EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen among others: ... Show more

António Guterres has spoken sharply of “planet wreckers” ahead of this week’s United ...

U.N. Chief’s Test
Shaming Without Naming the World’s Climate Delinquents

President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his concern ...

‘We can spend so much on war, but we can’t support action to meet basic needs of people,’ Ramaphosa tells UN

In Austria's famous Lake Neusiedl, you can still stand miles from the shore ...

Lake Neusiedl in Austria is drying out
now the Danube should save him

California is suing big oil. It’s the latest lawsuit targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in climate change.
For more on this ... Show more

Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed people were “safer than ever” from climate change just weeks after a Category 3 hurricane hit his home state of Florida.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to sign into law a ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will sign climate-focused transparency laws for big business

Island nations bearing the brunt of climate change this week confronted rich countries ...

Island nations blame rich countries for climate inaction at UN assembly

Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource ...

Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals | by Marit Kitaw
Project Syndicate

The prime minister’s attempts to turn the climate emergency into a US-style ...

‘The worst kind of culture war’
Tories attack Rishi Sunak’s reversal on net zero

Lake Seddin is becoming a symbol of a fatal development in Brandenburg: ...

Level drops by 15 cm a year
'Climate change consequence' - Brandenburg lakes disappear

King Charles III became the first British monarch to make ...

King Charles makes historic speech at French senate as he hails ‘indispensable’ UK-France relationship

"We will have to pay people to do what we need to have done with our land to improve ...

Ryan pushing for extra supports for farmers who 'go green'

Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world's deadliest infectious ...

Climate change impeding fight against AIDS, TB and malaria

New York University announced it plans to divest from fossil fuels in an August ...

Meet Two NYU Sunrise Students Who Helped Push NYU To Divest From Fossil Fuels

World leaders meeting at the United Nations warned of the peril the world faces unless it acts with urgency to rescue a set of 2030 development goals to wipe ... Show more

Mayor says interim climate report paints a worrying picture of an underground Tube system ...

London facing 45C days ‘in foreseeable future’, mayor Sadiq Khan warns

Auto workers are on strike at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis ...

UAW strike Day 4
GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs
Quick Glance: UAW resumes talks with Stellantis, Chrysler's parent company
- The United Auto Workers and Stellantis have resumed their negotiations as the strike against the Detroit Three automakers enters its fourth day.
- Analysts and industry representatives are questioning how long it will take for the UAW to strike at additional locations to increase pressure on the automakers.
- The strikes have halted production at plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri that manufacture the Ford Bronco, Jeep Wrangler, Chevrolet Colorado, and other popular models.
- Ford has temporarily laid off 600 non-striking workers at the Michigan Bronco plant due to the impact of the work stoppage.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science ...

U.S. Will Weigh Cost of Carbon Pollution in More Government Decisions

The deadly rainfall which caused catastrophic flooding and ...

Horrific Libya flooding made up to 50 times more likely by planet-warming pollution, scientists find
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