By Sylvia Hui
The Associated Press
FAIRBOURNE, WALES » Like many others who came to Fairbourne, Stuart Eves decided the coastal village in northern Wales would be home for life when he moved here 26 years ago. He fell in love with the peaceful, slow pace of small village ...
NYT, Nov, 9, 2021
By Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion Columnist
I spent last week talking to all sorts of people gathered for the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, and it left me with profoundly mixed emotions.
Having been to most of the climate summits since Bali in 2007, I can tell you this one...
By Katie Langford Daily Camera
University of Colorado Boulder and United Nations Human Rights will cohost the inaugural Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus next fall, bringing international leaders together in Boulder to address climate change as a human rights crisis.
While...
By Joe Neguse and Dan Gibbs
Guest Commentary
Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.
In the wake of these f...
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » John Kerry is everywhere and on the move at a fateful U.N. climate summit.
President Joe Biden’s envoy at the talks in Glasgow, Scotland, Kerry steams from side talks with U.S. rivals China and Russia that painstakingl...
Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things”
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligni...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet and is on suc...
By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND »
More than 40 countries pledged to phase out coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, in a deal announced Thursday at the United Nations climate summit that prompted Alok Sharma, the head of the conference, to p...
Some have been “putting pressure on our administrators to have the campus do the right things”
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Colorado State University student Kaydee Barker rides buses or her bicycle for transport, buys only used clothing, and eats vegetarian local food — aligning her a...
By Frank Jordans and Jill Lawless
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND » World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic globa...
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Tuesday launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming and packs a stronger short-term punch than even carbon dioxide.
The pl...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department’s conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, accor...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Having pledged to produce carbon- free electricity by 2050, Xcel Energy has a new goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas operations in the same timeframe.
Xcel Energy, the largest electric utility in Colorado, said...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND »
World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.
The metaphors were dramatic and mixed at the start of the t...
By Zeke Miller and Josh Boak
The Associated Press
ROME » President Joe Biden said Sunday a new U.S. and European Union trade agreement would crack down on “dirty steel” that produces carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change and also patch up a trans-Atlantic rift over ...
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
World leaders have been meeting for 29 years to try to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier planet.
Trillions of tons of ice have disappeared over that period, the burning of fossil fuels has spewed billions of t...
CHINA OFFERS FEW
NEW CLIMATE
TARGETS BEFORE
U.N. CONFERENCE
China is offering no significant new goals for reducing climatechanging emissions before the U.N. climate summit set to start next week in Glasgow, Scotland.
China, the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases t...
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Emily Swanson and Nathan Ellgren The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » President Joe Biden heads to a vital U.N. climate summit at a time when a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them, an increas...
By Andrew E. Kramer
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PEVEK, RUSSIA » A refurbished port. A spanking new plant to generate electricity. Repaved roads. And money left over to repair the library and put in a new esplanade along the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
Globally, the warming climate i...
One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try to curb manmade climate change.
Although the kingdom will aim to reduce emissions within its own...
