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News Articles: climate

Heavy rain caused floods in northeastern Thailand in October 2022. Millions of people around the world would benefit from more timely and accurate warnings about climate-driven extreme weather such as floods and heat waves. A new United Nations initiative plans to spend $3.1 billion on such early warning systems.

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  • Climate

U.N. plan would help warn people in vulnerable countries about climate threats

About half the world isn't covered by early warning systems that send alerts for weather emergencies. The worst is in developing countries, which have been hit hardest by global warming.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley and
  • Rebecca Hersher
A mine railway operator in Eastern Ukraine waits as workers disembark. Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted global supplies of fossil fuels and led to more reliance on coal for electricity in some countries. The future sources of energy around the world are major topics at climate negotiations underway in Egypt starting this week.

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  • Climate

FAQ: What's at stake at the COP27 global climate negotiations

World leaders are meeting in Egypt for the next two weeks to talk about reining in climate change and paying for its deadly effects. Here's what you need to know.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer,
  • Rebecca Hersher,
  • and 1 more
A Chadian poses for a photograph at the entrance of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit on Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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  • Climate

The U.N. chief tells the climate summit: Cooperate or perish

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A tuktuk drives during a sandstorm in Somalia in April. The United Nations says a multi-year drought in East Africa is evidence of "mounting and ever-increasing climate risks."

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  • Climate

Money will likely be the central tension in the U.N.'s COP27 climate negotiations

Global efforts to limit climate change can't happen without more aid. Rich countries promised $100 billion to poorer ones to cope with global warming but seven years later, have yet to deliver.

November 06, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley
Attendees of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit arrive, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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  • Climate

COP27 climate talks start in Egypt, as delegates arrive from around the world

Envoys from around the globe gathered Sunday in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for talks on tackling climate change.

November 06, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Scenes of devastation are visible in all directions along Lamar County Road 35940, west of State Highway 271, after a massive tornado hit the area, causing extensive damage and destroying an unknown number of homes, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 in Powderly, Texas.

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  • Weather

Tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma, killing at least one person and injuring dozens

Tornadoes hit hard in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, in the southeastern corner of the state on Friday. The county's emergency manager confirmed one death although he didn't immediately provide details.

November 05, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Steam rises from the coal-fired power plant with wind turbines nearby in Niederaussem, Germany, as the sun rises on Nov. 2, 2022.

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  • Climate

War fallout and aid demands are overshadowing the climate talks in Egypt

War in Ukraine, rising energy and food prices, and growing enmity between the West on the one hand and Russia and China on the other make finding cooperation at the coming climate talks difficult.

November 04, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A view of soybeans being planted on a farm in Balfour, South Africa on Oct. 20, 2021. Regenerative agriculture is a loosely defined term, but generally involves promoting on-farm soil health and carbon sequestration through practices like cover cropping and no-tilling.

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  • Climate

Big food companies commit to 'regenerative agriculture' but skepticism remains

Ahead of the U.N. climate change conference, CEOs of huge food corporations, including Mars, PepsiCo and McDonald's, are making regenerative agriculture commitments.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Dana Cronin
Africa's last remaining glaciers, including on Mount Kilimanjaro, are expected to melt by 2050. The mountain is seen here in 2009.

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  • Climate

Glaciers from Yellowstone to Kilimanjaro are predicted to disappear by 2050

A new report says glaciers in a third of UNESCO World Heritage sites will disappear. Two-thirds of glaciers in the heritage sites can be saved — but only if carbon emissions are cut quickly, it says.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
People wade through floodwaters in Pakistan after heavy monsoon rains this summer. Scientists say climate change helped drive the deadly floods.

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  • Climate

Countries hit hardest by climate change need much more money to prepare, U.N. says

Impacts from global warming hit the world's poorest countries hardest, although they're responsible for a relatively small share of climate emissions. They need more money to protect against risks.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley
From October to December, Pumpkins For Pigs connects community members across the country with local farms, so their leftover pumpkins can be used for animal feed.

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  • Environment

Ready to toss out your pumpkins? Here's how to keep them out of the landfill

The U.S. produces billions of pumpkins each year, most of which end up in the trash when Halloween ends. From composting them to putting them out for wildlife to eat, here are some recycling ideas.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Halisia Hubbard
With measuring tape and notepad, marine ecologist Enric Ballesteros surveys the organisms living on a healthy reef in the islands. When author Enric Sala and his team first visited here in 2009, they found these reefs in a pristine state, with a profusion of species, many of them rare.

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  • Climate

This coral reef resurrected itself — and showed scientists how to replicate it

While scientists studied a coral reef ecosystem in the South Pacific, rising temperatures led them to believe it was doomed. Then, something miraculous happened.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • and 1 more
Phoebe Plummer, pictured at a demonstration in London's Piccadilly Circus in early October, spoke to <em>Morning Edition</em> about the tactics Just Stop Oil is using to draw attention to the urgency of climate change.

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  • Climate

The activist who threw soup on a van Gogh says it's the planet that's being destroyed

Phoebe Plummer, a climate activist with Just Stop Oil, speaks with NPR's Morning Edition about what the group wants, and why they're turning to controversial tactics to get it.

November 01, 2022
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By:
  • Lilly Quiroz
Drag queen Pattie Gonia's dress was made by Zero Waste Daniel, a designer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who focuses on sustainable clothing and accessories.

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  • Arts & Life

Drag queen Pattie Gonia wanted a scary Halloween costume. She went as climate change

Drag queen Pattie Gonia said she wanted a very scary costume for Halloween this year. The scariest thing she came up with is climate change.

October 31, 2022
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By:
  • Halisia Hubbard
Rescuers work to retrieve a body at Maguindanao's Datu Odin Sinsuat town, southern Philippines on Sunday. Victims of a huge mudslide set off by Tropical Storm Nalgae in a coastal Philippine village that had once been devastated by a killer tsunami mistakenly thought a tidal wave was coming and ran to higher ground toward a mountain and were buried alive, an official said Sunday.

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  • World

More than 100 people are dead and dozens are missing in storm-ravaged Philippines

More than 100 people have died in one of the most destructive storms to lash the Philippines this year with dozens more feared missing, officials said Monday.

October 31, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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