By Cathy Bussewitz and Martha Irvine
The Associated Press
ARLINGTON, TEXAS » At a playground outside a North Texas day care, giggling preschoolers chase each other into a playhouse. Toddlers scoot by on tricycles.
Just uphill, Total Energies is pumping for natural gas. The French energy g...
By Daniel Craig McCool
The Conversation
The Colorado River is a vital lifeline for the arid U.S. Southwest. It supplies water to seven states, Mexico, 29 Indian reservations and millions of acres of irrigated farmland. The river and its tributaries support 16 million jobs and provi...
By Alan Fram
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » A fractious House handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory Friday by approving an approximately $2 trillion social and environment bill, as Democrats cast aside disputes that for months had stalled the measure and hampered efforts to sell ...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » After talking the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland, the Biden administration now tests whether a divided United States can walk the climate walk and push a massive investment for a new era of clean energy through th...
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Why two Nos may still make a Yes.
There are (at least) two ways to see the final days of the UN’s COP 26 climate conference and the Glasgow Climate Pact it produced.
Was it yet another example of the developed world turning a blind eye to the very real suffering of dev...
By Jim Robbins
Kaiser Health News
The reduction of harmful ground-level ozone across most of the U.S. over the past several decades has been an air pollution success story. But in some parts of the country, especially in the heavily populated mountain valleys of the West, the odorless, col...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden announced Monday that his administration was moving to block new federal oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, one of the nation’s oldest and most culturally significant Native Ame...
Due to the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from COVID-19, this year’s Thanksgiving celebrations will look a bit different than usual. Our hope is that you find creative ways to connect safely, whether it’s meeting up outdoors for a smaller gathering or using Zoom to join with your fam...
By Sheikh Saaliq
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI » Sky obscured by thick, gray smog. Monuments and high-rise buildings swallowed by a blanket of haze. People struggling to breathe.
In the Indian capital, it is that time of the year again.
The city’s air quality index fell into the “very...
Some countries express disappointment on the final climate pact but say it’s better than nothing.
By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » Almost 200 nations accepted a compromise deal Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it con...
By Jack Ewing © The New York Times Co.
NARSAQ, GREENLAND » This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea.
But increasingly Greenland is known for something else: rare minerals. It’s all becaus...
By Angela Charlton
The Associated Press
SOULAINES-DHUYS, FRANCE » Deep in a French forest of oaks, birches and pines, a steady stream of trucks carries a silent reminder of nuclear energy’s often-invisible cost: canisters of radioactive waste, heading into storage for the next 300 ...
By Joe Neguse and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.
In the wake of these f...
By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman
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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...
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...
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...
By Benjamin Franta
The Conversation
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change — and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they...
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Lisa Friedman
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Executives of some of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies — Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP and Shell — are set to appear before a congressional committee Thursday to address accusations that the industry spent millions of...
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...
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...
