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At COP28, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and adapting to climate as talks near crunch time
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options so they can agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming and help vulnerable societies adapt to weather extremes as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks. COP28...
Baku to the future: After stalemate, UN climate talks will be in Azerbaijan in 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For years, climate change has been a factor — not the only one — in wars and conflicts. Now for the first time, it's part of a peace deal. A long-time stand-off that had turned the choice for next year's United Nations climate talks into a...
Brazil's Lula takes heat on oil plans at UN climate talks, a turnaround after hero status last year
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fresh off election victory, a year ago Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was the star of the annual U.N. climate talks. Lula promised to crack down on deforestation and turn Brazil into an environmental leader, a complete turnaround...
Cows in Rotterdam harbor, seedlings on rafts in India; are floating farms the future?
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — On the top deck of a three-tiered structure moored near downtown Rotterdam, brown and white cows graze on hay dropped from a conveyor belt above their heads and rinds of oranges salvaged from supermarket juice machines in the port city. Canopies overhead protect the...
Agriculture gets its day at COP28, but experts see big barriers to cutting emissions
More than 100 world leaders at this year's United Nations climate summit agreed to make their farm and food systems a key part of their plans to fight climate change, seeking improvements in a sector that accounts for about a third of planet-warming emissions. With livestock...
What is carbon capture and why does it keep coming up at COP28?
The future of fossil fuels is at the center of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where many activists, experts and nations are calling for an agreement to phase out the oil, gas and coal responsible for warming the planet. On the other side: energy companies and oil-rich nations with...
How to adapt to climate change may be secondary at COP28, but it's key to saving lives, experts say
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that's already here. Discussions for what's known as the...
Indonesia's youth clean up trash from waterways, but more permanent solutions are still elusive
BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — At a lake in the West Javan city of Bogor, children and teenagers paddle toward piles of floating trash, pick it up and store it in their kayaks, before passing it to friends sorting it onshore. The group of around 20 youngsters started off as a team of one,...
Decades after Europe, turning blades send first commercial offshore wind power onto US grid
NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Despite some recent financial setbacks, U.S. offshore windpower has hit a milestone. An 800-foot tall turbine is now sending electricity onto the grid from a commercial-scale offshore wind farm on pace to be the country's first. The moment is years in the...
Scientists: Climate change intensified the rains devastating East Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ongoing catastrophic rains in Eastern Africa have been worsened by human-caused climate change that made them up to two times more intense, an international team of climate scientists said Thursday. The analysis comes from World Weather Attribution, a group of...
