Climate

At the Appalachian School of Luthiery in Hindman, Ky., days after July's catastrophic floods, luthier Kris Patrick searches through the mud-caked remains of instruments and materials.

Music & Culture

When the creek does rise, can music survive?

5:00am November 12, 2022

by Stephanie Wolf

How does a scene survive when disaster strikes its venues, music schools, rare instruments and priceless archives all at once? The musicians of flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky have a few answers.

Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama.

Arts

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

5:00am November 12, 2022

by Chloe Veltman

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

President Joe Biden arrives to speak at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Here's what happened on Friday at the U.N.'s COP27 climate talks

4:54pm November 11, 2022

President Biden touted American progress reining in emissions and said he intends to push for more money for developing countries. Here's what happened at COP27 today.

Biden says the U.S. is leading global warming action, but it may not be enough

4:21pm November 11, 2022

by Ruth Sherlock

President Biden went to the U.N. climate conference in Egypt to say the U.S. is leading urgent action to reduce global warming trends — but it may not be fast enough or sufficient.

Mamadou Thiam in Saint-Louis, Senegal on October 5.

Saint-Louis is being swallowed by the sea. Residents are bracing for a new reality

4:21pm November 11, 2022

The problem is as simple as it is devastating: the Atlantic Ocean is expanding into Senegal, and Saint-Louis is ground zero. Every year, the island loses a little bit of land to the sea.

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A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen in August 2021 on a well pad near Watford City, N.D.

Environment

Biden tightens methane emissions rules, even as the U.S. pushes for more oil drilling

11:53am November 11, 2022

by The Associated Press

Oil and gas production is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and is a key target for the Biden administration as it seeks to combat climate change.

News brief: Arizona midterms, Biden at climate summit, student debt relief blocked

8:08am November 11, 2022

Arizona's Senate seat, among other races, are still undecided. President Biden speaks to the U.N. climate summit in Egypt. A Texas judge strikes down Biden's student loan-forgiveness plan.

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Workers in Germany construct a new pipeline for transporting natural gas imports from a nearby liquified natural gas facility. European countries are seeking new sources of natural gas, as they wean themselves off imports from Russia.

Environment

Are climate change emissions finally going down? Definitely not

5:01am November 11, 2022

by Lauren Sommer

World leaders are discussing how to get climate change under control, but new reports show the post-pandemic rebound and war in Ukraine are driving emissions even higher.

Workers at a coal mine in Ukraine start their shifts. Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted global supplies of fossil fuels and led to more reliance on coal for electricity in some countries.

Here's what happened on Day 5 of the U.N.'s COP27 climate talks

6:25pm November 10, 2022

Russia's war in Ukraine also threatens to wreck climate goals, members of Congress arrive, and an actor changes his name to draw attention to global warming

People brave rain and heavy winds to visit the waterfront along the Jensen Beach Causeway, as conditions deteriorate with the approach of Hurricane Nicole, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Jensen Beach, Fla.

National

Nicole weakens to a tropical storm after reaching Florida's east coast

5:16am November 10, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Nicole was downgraded to a tropical storm Thursday morning, shortly after making landfall in Florida, officials at the National Hurricane Center said.