Climate

A man picks through plastic waste at a garbage dump in Kenya.

Global talks to cut plastic waste stall as industry and environmental groups clash

12:59pm November 20, 2023

by Michael Copley

The United Nations wants to finish a plastics treaty by the end of 2024. Almost every piece of plastic is made from fossil fuels, and the industry wants a big say in how it's cleaned up.

The USFS is proposing changing a rule that would allow the storage of carbon dioxide pollution under national forests and grasslands. It's controversial.

The U.S. has a controversial plan to store carbon dioxide under the nation's forests

6:02am November 20, 2023

by Julia Simon

A proposed rule change from the US Forest Service would allow storage of carbon dioxide pollution under national forests. The plan comes as communities resist such projects in their areas

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Religion

Pope Francis: Climate activist?

6:04pm November 19, 2023

Pope Francis will attend next month's COP28, making him the first pontiff to attend the annual UN climate conference. It's part of his wider effort to make climate action central to his papacy.

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Children wade through floodwater on Nyangai Island, Sierra Leone. Most of the island has already been lost to the sea, and what remains is routinely flooded at high tide.

A disappearing island: 'The water is destroying us, one house at a time'

11:00am November 19, 2023

by Tommy Trenchard

The island of Nyangai off the coast of Sierra Leone is on the frontline of climate change. More frequent and intense weather has eroded Nyangai to a nubbin. Residents who remain fear for its future.

The sun sets behind pumpjacks on Sept. 15, 2021, in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas.

Texas pushes some textbook publishers to remove material on fossil fuels

2:09pm November 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

Texas' education board called on some publishers to remove material that some Republicans criticized as incorrect or negative portrayals of fossil fuels in the biggest oil and gas state.

'It feels like I'm not crazy.' Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map

12:08pm November 17, 2023

by Julia Simon

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

A wildfire burns south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, near Highway 63 on Saturday, May 7, 2016. A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize.

Books

The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize

5:07am November 17, 2023

by The Associated Press

John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World was awarded Britain's leading nonfiction book prize on Thursday in London.

Climate activists protest on the first day of the ExxonMobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on 2019. Last month, prosecutors described how ExxonMobil tried to take advantage of material stolen by hackers working for Aviram Azari.

Private detective who led a hacking attack against climate activists gets prison time

6:18pm November 16, 2023

Aviram Azari was sentenced to almost seven years in prison on Thursday. Azari directed a group of hackers that targeted thousands of victims globally, including U.S. climate activists.

Wildland firefighters on the Spring Creek Fire in Colorado on July 2, 2023.

A massive pay cut for federal wildland firefighters may be averted. But not for long

5:14am November 16, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

A long running effort to permanently boost pay for thousands of federal wildland firefighters is finally gaining traction in Congress but fire managers warn it could be too little too late.

World News

As life under climate change grows more difficult, one group says cash aid can help

4:19pm November 15, 2023

by Nurith Aizenman

Many of the world's poorest places are getting even more difficult to live in as climate change fuels an upswing in natural disasters. One group says cash aid can help.