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  By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved. The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet and is on suc...
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  By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman © The New York Times Co. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » More than 40 countries pledged to phase out coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a deal announced Thursday at the United Nations climate summit that prompted Alok Sharma, the head of the conference, to p...
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  Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things” By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligning her a...
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  By Frank Jordans and Jill Lawless The Associated Press GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic globa...
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By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Tuesday launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming and packs a stronger short-term punch than even carbon dioxide. The pl...
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By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department’s conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, accor...
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    By Judith Kohler The Denver Post Having pledged to produce carbon- free electricity by 2050, Xcel Energy has a new goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas operations in the same timeframe. Xcel Energy, the largest electric utility in Colorado, said...
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By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations. The metaphors were dramatic and mixed at the start of the t...
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  By Zeke Miller and Josh Boak The Associated Press ROME » President Joe Biden said Sunday a new U.S. and European Union trade agreement would crack down on “dirty steel” that produces carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change and also patch up a trans-Atlantic rift over ...
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By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press World leaders have been meeting for 29 years to try to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier planet. Trillions of tons of ice have disappeared over that period, the burning of fossil fuels has spewed billions of t...
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CHINA OFFERS FEW NEW CLIMATE TARGETS BEFORE U.N. CONFERENCE China is offering no significant new goals for reducing climatechanging emissions before the U.N. climate summit set to start next week in Glasgow, Scotland. China, the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases t...
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    By Ellen Knickmeyer, Emily Swanson and Nathan Ellgren The Associated Press WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increas...
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  By Andrew E. Kramer © The New York Times Co. PEVEK, RUSSIA » A refurbished port. A spanking new plant to generate electricity. Repaved roads. And money left over to repair the library and put in a new esplanade along the shore of the Arctic Ocean. Globally, the warming climate i...
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  One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try to curb manmade climate change. Although the kingdom will aim to reduce emissions within its own...
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By Christopher Flavelle, Julian E. Barnes, Eileen Sullivan and Jennifer Steinhauer © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » Worsening conflict within and between nations. Increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability. Heightened military tension and uncer...
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  By Jamey Keaten and Frank Jordans The Associated Press GENEVA » Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade despite a temporary reduction during pandemic lockdowns, the World Meteorological Organiz...
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September 22, 2021 By Yusuf Jameel, Carissa Patrone & Kristen P. Patterson New Security Beat  If raging wildfires, extreme drought, and superstorms haven’t made it clear, the latest IPCC report tells us in plain language: the world is poised for worsening climate impacts over the next 30 y...
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Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme By Francis Wilkinson Bloomberg Opinion New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
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Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme By Francis Wilkinson Bloomberg Opinion New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
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By Lisa Mascaro, Alan Fram and Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON » Scaling down his “build back better” plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government- overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate ...
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