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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Brazil’s COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finances for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of …
Read More »Fossil fuel phaseout plan dropped from draft UN climate deal
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The COP30 climate summit was headed for a showdown on Friday over the future of fossil fuels after host Brazil dropped efforts to develop a global plan …
Read More »Is Quebec serious about climate change? New government bill raises questions
A new Quebec government bill aimed at reducing bureaucracy and increasing state efficiency is raising concerns about the province’s commitment to fighting climate change. Under Bill 7, the proposed legislation introduced last week by Quebec’s new treasury board president, surpluses from the province’s Green Fund will be allowed to be …
Read More »Indigenous protesters block entrance to Brazil climate summit
4 hours ago News Duration 3:16 Dozens of Indigenous protesters blocked the front of the COP30 summit venue in Belem, Brazil, on Friday morning, staging a sit-in that forced delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change. News Source link
Read More »UN climate talks in Brazil kick off with a focus on implementing existing promises
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. U.N. climate negotiations began Monday on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon as leaders pushed for accelerating efforts to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon …
Read More »Brazil’s climate credentials tested by search for oil off Amazon coast
At the river dock in Oiapoque, a frontier city near Brazil’s northern coast, Cleidiney Ribeiro steers his river boat into the water. “Progress is coming to Oiapoque,” he says with optimism, as he motors out an hour and a half to where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean. Cleidiney Ribeiro …
Read More »Did Bill Gates really say we don’t need to address climate change?
Listen to this article Estimated 6 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Over the past week, you may have come across headlines like this: “Bill Gates bends the knee on climate change,” or “The week Bill Gates backtracked on …
Read More »How much of a role did climate change play with Hurricane Melissa?
Millions of people across the Caribbean are trying to deal with the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, which tore through the region this week. Like so many storms of late, Melissa underwent a rapid intensification, defined as when a storm’s maximum sustained wind speed increases by 51 km/h over 24 …
Read More »Judge dismisses young activists’ lawsuit against Trump, concedes ‘very real’ climate harm
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen said the plaintiffs showed overwhelming evidence climate change affects them and that it will worsen as a …
Read More »Deadly legionnaires’ outbreaks in London, Ont., bring role climate change may play to the forefront
There’s heightened emphasis on the role climate change may play in the spread of legionnaires’ disease as London, Ont., deals with its second deadly outbreak since the summer of 2024. Some scientists point to the Earth’s warming temperatures and changing weather patterns — some of the signals of climate change — as playing a big role …
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