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Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.
As the United States steps back from climate diplomacy, China is presenting itself as a responsible power leading in clean, green technology.
Liu Zhenmin also defended Beijing’s own climate efforts as “very ambitious.”
Tyson Foods will stop asserting it is pursuing production of “climate-smart” beef and working to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions as part of a legal settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the veracity of the company’s environmental claims.
The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say.

At COP30 in Belém, climate delegates slept aboard diesel-powered cruise ships and traveled roads carved through newly deforested land, contradictions that unsettled many, including California’s contingent.

For the first time, North Dakota utility regulators are considering proposals for massive battery storage sites that would serve as backstops for renewable energy sources. 

Brazil’s biggest meat and agrochemical companies have paid nearly 200 influencers to promote their products in the year leading up to COP30, using pop culture and wellness messaging to deflect attention from their rising emissions and environmental harms.

After nearly 50 years of operation, the Midwest Energy Resources coal terminal in Superior will shut down next June as coal shipments continue to decline amid the clean energy transition.

Hurricane Melissa ravaged rural Jamaica; campaigners at COP30 say the disaster exposes how communities shaped by slavery and colonial extraction now bear the brunt of climate impacts.

As the talks continue, some countries are pushing for a detailed “road map” for a global transition away from oil, gas and coal.
World leaders have vowed to fight rising temperatures for years. Many of those pledges fade when the summits end.

Surging wind and solar additions are meeting all of this year’s growth in global electricity demand, keeping fossil fuel use flat for the first time since the pandemic.

Wealthy nations’ surging appetite for metals has fueled a flurry of plans to mine in wilderness around the world, including on the edge of the Amazon Basin.
Utilities are producing eye-popping forecasts about the amount of electricity they'll need to power massive new data centers that are feeding the fast-growing AI economy.
We never got those promised EV chargers — but we did get a future for EVs.

Manitoba — home of much hydro power and notoriously cold winters — says it’s perfectly positioned for a data center boom. Here’s what that means for the province.

Threatened northern leopard frogs found near a proposed 32-well pad outside Aurora have become a central factor in residents’ push to block one of Colorado’s largest fossil fuel projects.

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