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Warming oceans are sending the monogamous sea birds farther afield to find food, putting stress on their breeding and prompting some to ditch their partners.
For climate experts and policymakers, $1 trillion is just a start.
The department recommended higher fees for oil and gas leases, but there was no sign the government planned to take global warming into account when weighing new applications.
Beneath the National Museum of American History, floodwaters are intruding into collection rooms, a consequence of a warming planet. A fix remains years away.
The $555 billion package is designed to lure the country away from fossil fuels. It faces an uncertain path in the Senate.
The research adds to a growing body of work finding that climate change is increasing fire risk in California and elsewhere in the West.
Demand for residences that produce as much energy as they consume is being spurred by climate concerns, consumer appetite and more affordable solar technology.
In Washington, Beijing, New Delhi and beyond, governments face conflicting forces — political, social and economic — that will shape their next steps in the effort to avert a climate crisis.
After running a day past its scheduled end date, COP26 ended with a signed agreement, though many called it disappointing.
Some activists called the agreement in Glasgow disappointing, but it establishes a clear consensus that all countries need to do much more.
The COP26 president apologised as a late amendment on coal was added to the draft text by India.
At COP26, negotiators from about 200 countries worked overnight, hashing out differences in the quest for a new global climate agreement
In the heart of the Amazon, where pristine rainforest remains largely untouched by humans, birds are shrinking.
The future climate could be determined by the level of emissions in the coming years.
The COP26 climate summit is set to wrap up Friday, but officials said a lot of work remains in negotiating a global plan to tackle the climate emergency.
For decades, vulnerable countries and activist groups have demanded that rich polluter countries pay for irreparable damage from climate change. This year, there may be a breakthrough.
Climate activists from the Philippines, the UK and Argentina take questions on climate change.
In Kumik, in India’s northern Ladakh region, there is a serious water crisis, with some residents forced to abandon their homes and move elsewhere.
Some observers hoped the announcement might inject needed energy into lackluster negotiations at this week’s Glasgow climate summit, although the terms weren’t particularly aggressive.
Negotiators still have major disagreements over issues like what sorts of financial aid richer nations should provide poorer ones, as well as how to accelerate emissions cuts.
The New York Democrat arrived Tuesday in Glasgow with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers to appear at the COP26 climate talks.
Negotiators from about 200 countries are entering Week 2 of climate talks trying to resolve big issues around money, transparency and timelines.
NASA has released the first images of Earth taken by the Landsat 9 mission which is designed to capture high-resolution snapshots of the planet to help track climate change.
There’s a clear gender and generation gap at the Glasgow talks, and the two sides have very different views on how to address global warming.
The measure includes $47 billion to help communities prepare for the new age of extreme fires, floods, storms and droughts that scientists say are worsened by human-caused climate change.
At the Glasgow climate talks, the world leaders are mostly men over 60. The protesters outside are mostly young women.
A peat bog in County Tyrone is providing a “nature-based solution” to climate change.
Ros Atkins looks at why vast tree-planting initiatives are concerning some experts.
The United States did not agree to stop coal development at home but promised to halt overseas funding of oil, gas and coal.
Two key deals announced Thursday signal progress among some nations in making the shift away from fossil fuels to avert the worst impacts of climate change.
Research has increasingly shown that warming is taking a deadly toll on human health. At the global climate summit in Glasgow, the issue has gained new prominence.
Increasingly vocal and powerful proponents argue that nuclear power is the world’s best hope of keeping climate change under control.
The world leaders have left Glasgow. Now negotiators must hunker down to turn pledges into reality.
Since the COP26 climate change summit started, hundreds of protesters have taken to the city’s streets.
Even as financial institutions vowed to mobilize trillions in capital toward clean energy, developing countries say they are still struggling to pay the costs of adapting to the dangers of global warming.
A new study from the agency published in the journal Nature Food said that under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, maize crop yields are projected to decline by 24% and wheat could potentially see a growth of about 17 percent.
Jacinda Ardern defends New Zealand’s climate policies, and its role as a Pacific nation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vow came less than a week after India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, declined to set a deadline.
The BBC’s Science Editor David Shukman takes a look inside the UN’s climate conference in Glasgow.
Prince Charles is set to tell leaders the world must put itself on “war-like footing” to combat the climate crisis as he opens a key U.N. climate summit.
