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Rich nations must hit net zero and pay up on climate, India says

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 6:28am
India, the world’s third-largest polluter, has long argued that industrialized nations should carry a greater decarbonization burden.

UK overtaken by Denmark as world’s most ambitious country on climate

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 6:27am
Denmark’s climate minister announced Monday that his government would submit a binding target to cut emissions by 82 percent by 2035 compared with 1990 levels.

Methane pollution rises, but UN foresees near-future reductions

Wed, 11/19/2025 - 6:26am
If countries follow their climate plans, global methane emissions in 2030 will be 8 percent below 2020 levels, a U.N. official said.

Trump refused to send disaster aid to Chicago after 2 devastating storms

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:19am
The destruction caused by the summer storms was enough that past presidents likely would have approved requests for federal assistance.

FEMA to Texas? Disaster agency mulls move to Lone Star State.

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:17am
The state's top emergency official also is under discussion to lead FEMA. The agency's acting chief resigned Monday after a six-month stint.

China strides into US-sized gap at climate talks

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:16am
In the Biden era, countries interested in clean energy “were motivated to buy things from the U.S.,” an African official says. But now Beijing has few rivals.

China’s top envoy blasts EU climate goals and Trump’s ‘bad example’

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:16am
Liu Zhenmin also defended Beijing’s own climate efforts as “very ambitious.”

Diplomats scramble to keep UK rainforest fund hopes alive

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:13am
British and Brazilian officials hope for a change of heart after this month’s budget.

Chamber urges Supreme Court to block California climate laws

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:12am
Business groups say the laws violate companies' First Amendment rights.

Think tank flips the script on Trump EPA’s economic analyses

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:11am
The NYU School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity says the costs of deregulation far exceeds the benefits.

DeepMind’s latest AI weather model targets energy traders

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:10am
AI has fueled a boom in new weather prediction tools, which are starting to replace forecasts that had been generated by supercomputers.

Heavy rain triggers landslides and floods in central Vietnam, killing 7

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:10am
Earth and rocks collapsed on a bus in Khanh Hoa province Sunday night, killing six and trapping many passengers, state media reported.

Iran starts cloud seeding as water crisis forces rationing

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:09am
The operation, which involves dispersing chemicals into clouds, takes place as Iran faces its worst drought in decades.

South Korea aims to spur global coal exit as own plants shutter

Tue, 11/18/2025 - 6:08am
The nation, a major importer of thermal coal, will join about 60 countries in the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

FEMA to Texas? Disaster agency mulls move to Lone Star State

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 5:06pm
The state's top emergency official also is under discussion to lead FEMA. The agency's acting chief resigned Monday after a six-month stint.

Acting FEMA chief out after short, troubled tenure

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 2:03pm
Hours before his resignation became public Monday, David Richardson told POLITICO's E&E News that "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Past promises haunt Brazil’s climate summit

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 6:18am
World leaders have vowed to fight rising temperatures for years. Many of those pledges fade when the summits end.

Solar company to open another US factory. It credits Trump.

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 6:17am
The incoming South Carolina facility will help First Solar build its unusual kind of solar panels, which utilize thin-film technology.

How Shapiro’s RGGI retreat could shape Democrats’ climate messaging

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 6:16am
The Pennsylvania governor's deal to trade climate regulations for a budget agreement could ripple far beyond his state's borders.

Car-centric Texas inches toward mass transit

Mon, 11/17/2025 - 6:16am
Texas is writing its first statewide plan for mass transportation as it wrestles with more residents and traffic.

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