The Daily Climate

drought & modernity's draw displaces Chenini residents

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Tunisian cave village empties out in face of drought and modernity’s draw

For 1,000 years, homes dug into a desert cliff have sheltered olive farmers and sheep herders from summer heat and winter cold. But an exodus threatens its future. “We are left alone here.”

Politics

climate deal reconciliations & flexibility

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Lines in the sand need redrawing to reach climate deal

As international climate talks in the Egyptian desert go into their final days, negotiators are trying to move key countries’ lines in the sand on multiple issues, including compensation for climate disasters, phasing down all fossil fuel use and additional financial help for poor nations.

Impacts

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In dry, unreliable weather, Indian farmers restore arid land

Climate change is exacerbating the loss of arable land as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes more irregular.

Impacts

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Climate Migration: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh

For decades, Konchok Dorjey grazed the world’s finest cashmere-producing goats in the arid, treeless Kharnak village in India’s Ladakh region, a high mountainous cold desert that borders China and Pakistan.

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Endangered status sought for snail near Nevada lithium mine

Conservationists are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a tiny snail half the size of a pea that is known to exist only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine planned in Nevada along the Oregon state line.

Impacts

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Desert winemaking ‘sounds absurd,’ but Israeli vineyards in Negev show the way

As vintners around the world battle extreme heat and climate change, the pioneers producing wine in Israel’s arid south are testing ideas that might soon find global application.

Politics

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Green energy complicates the Taliban’s new battle against opium

The multibillion-dollar trade has survived previous bans. Now, the Taliban are going after solar-powered water pumps to try to dry up poppy crops in the middle of a national economic crisis.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

deserts

Tunisian cave village empties out in face of drought and modernity’s draw

Lines in the sand need redrawing to reach climate deal

In dry, unreliable weather, Indian farmers restore arid land

Climate Migration: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh

Endangered status sought for snail near Nevada lithium mine

Desert winemaking ‘sounds absurd,’ but Israeli vineyards in Negev show the way

Green energy complicates the Taliban’s new battle against opium

Fossil fuel cuts, not just renewables, needed to avoid climate disaster

Funding bill includes $100B for disasters but leaves out conservation funds

Climate change leaves homeowners without insurance

Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Petrochemical plants send millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year: Report

Montana Supreme Court declares youth-led climate victory