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Climate change and the village at the end of the world
Ittoqqotoormiit, in the east of Greenland, is probably the most remote village in the world. Only about 350 people live in the tiny hamlet north of the Arctic Circle. Today their unique way of life is under threat.
IEA: The world will gain enough renewable energy in 5 years to power China
Global renewable power capacity is set to grow as much in the next five years as it has over the past two decades, as soaring energy prices and the climate crisis force governments to ditch fossil fuels.
Mideast sandstorms snarl traffic, close schools, harm health
U.S. EPA head Regan presses on cutting pollution from power plants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said on Thursday that the Biden Administration will continue to press to cut pollution from power plants, which he noted were “the largest stationary sources of harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide.”
Older cars face ban from Edinburgh city centre
Kerry takes climate change message to Asia
John Kerry, in Asia on his first trip as the special presidential envoy for climate, is urging cooperation between the U.S. and China, and everyone else, on climate change because "no one nation can solve this problem by itself — impossible. Each of us needs everybody else at the table to make this happen."
Shift to renewable energy eases key environmental burdens, EU says
Europe's shift from fossil fuel-based electricity to renewable sources has reduced environmental problems while also cutting the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.