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Elections set up national battleground over electricity

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China, world’s top carbon polluter, likely to overdeliver on climate goals. Will that be enough?

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Making forest protection more lucrative than destruction

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10 years after the Paris Climate Agreement, here's where we are

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Typhoon victims wade through floodwaters in storm aftermath

Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves dozens dead in central Philippines

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The global race to slash emissions — in nine charts

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High stakes and hopes as leaders gather ahead of COP30

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Coal miners with black lung fight Trump on rollback of health, safety protections

Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.
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Wildfire mitigation in New Mexico down 53% since Trump took office

A new analysis by a wildland firefighter advocacy group finds that wildfire mitigation in New Mexico, including prescribed burns and forest thinning, has plunged by more than half since Donald Trump took office, raising alarms amid an already severe backlog in forest management and a predicted dry winter.

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Disasters like Hurricane Melissa put pressure on immigrants

After Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica, Canada’s Caribbean communities are mobilizing to send money and supplies back home — a reminder that those least responsible for climate change often shoulder its heaviest costs.

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It was a very good election for the climate

In the first election of Donald Trump's second term, voters make clear that they're unhappy with his energy policies — and they still care about climate action.

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Planet in peril: 30 years of climate talks in six charts

As leaders gather for the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this month - three decades after the world's first annual climate conference - the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story.
Read the Full Article on www.reuters.com
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Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

Northern Thailand’s annual haze crisis is fueled by maize field burning tied to the animal feed industry, compounded by looming coal projects. In Omkoi, Karen villagers have banned maize and rotated crops to cut smoke, only to face a proposed lignite mine that threatens to undo hard-won gains.

Read the Full Article on news.mongabay.com
An aerial View of Belem do Para, Brazil - scene of COP30

High stakes and hopes as leaders gather ahead of COP30

Ahead of the UN climate conference in Brazil, international leaders including Germany's Merz and Brazil's Lula are meeting to discuss climate action. Experts say they should reaffirm their ambition to curb emissions.
Read the Full Article on www.dw.com
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Democrats show early signs of winning energy messaging war

Democrats won gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, where candidates made affordability concerns and skyrocketing electricity bills central to their campaigns.
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Climate change panel fielding questions at California conference on climate change

The U.S. is skipping this year’s climate summit. For many, that’s OK.

World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
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New York climate advocates celebrate Mamdani’s victory, prepare to hold him accountable

For the first time in years, New York’s environmental justice advocates say they’ll be working with the city’s government—rather than against it.
Read the Full Article on insideclimatenews.org
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Record-smashing shutdown hits energy, enviro work

Here's what's open and what's stalled as the political standoff continues.
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Intensive livestock farms fail to declare climate impacts in ‘emissions scandal’

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How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment

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$10 trillion in green investments counter Trump’s climate backlash

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Causes

Industrial gas giants quietly outpace tech and oil companies in power use and emissions

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Ohio scrapped a key tool to fight air pollution. Advocates want it back.

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White House pressured EPA for broad rollback of tailpipe rules

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Resilience

Solar geoengineering in wrong hands could wreak climate havoc, scientists warn

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Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’

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The devastating effects of Super Typhoon Odette (International name "Rai) in Lapu-Lap City, Cebu, Philippines.

Mayors pledge coordinated climate action ahead of UN conference in Brazil

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The EV battery tech that’s worth the hype, according to experts

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Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in Amazon mining crackdown

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Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business

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Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees

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The global race to slash emissions — in nine charts

www.dw.com
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Amazon oil drilling undermines Brazil’s climate credibility before COP30

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‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say

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COP30: Six ways the Brazil climate summit can succeed or fail

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