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Last minute resistance at the COP26 summit over efforts to phase out coal left many countries disappointed, but the agreement still marked new progress.

Environment

Here's what world leaders agreed to — and what they didn't — at the UN climate summit

3:57pm November 13, 2021

by Lauren Sommer

Intense climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland brought about major breakthroughs and compromises, as world leaders sought to avert extreme climate change.

Alok Sharma (left), president of the COP26 summit, attends a stocktaking plenary session in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday.

World News

At COP26, nations strike a climate deal with coal compromise

3:46pm November 13, 2021

by The Associated Press

Government negotiators from nearly 200 countries have adopted a new deal on climate action after a last-minute intervention by India to water down the language on cutting emissions from coal.

World News

Climate negotiations at COP26 center on timeline and aid to developing countries

11:14am November 13, 2021

by Dan Charles

Climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, have gone into overtime. Countries are divided over how quickly to cut greenhouse gas emissions and over aid to developing countries.

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Birds in the Amazon have been shrinking. Here's why scientists think it's happening

5:08pm November 12, 2021

by Christopher Intagliata

Over the last four decades, birds in the Amazon have been shrinking — and scientists believe their smaller bodies may be a response to hotter, drier weather brought by climate change.

The financial impact of climate change

5:08pm November 12, 2021

by Frank Langfitt

For some people attending the UN's COP26 conference in Scotland, climate change is not a future threat — they are seeing its impact on their homelands now.

Negotiators are in the home stretch on the final day of UN climate conference

4:56pm November 12, 2021

by Dan Charles

The final day of COP26, the UN's conference where global leaders and delegates are negotiating crucial and concrete strategies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, is underway in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Climate activists demonstrate at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday. Negotiators from almost 200 nations were making a fresh push to reach agreement on a series of key issues.

In a first, U.N. climate agreement could include the words 'coal' and 'fossil fuels'

3:44pm November 12, 2021

The U.N. secretary-general warns the main goal of limiting global warming is "on life support." But Glasgow negotiators are making modest progress in their final hours.

Youth climate activists protest on Thursday that representatives of the fossil fuel industry have been allowed inside the venue during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow.

The fossil fuel industry turned out in force at COP26. So did climate activists

1:59pm November 12, 2021

by Frank Langfitt

More than 500 attendees from the fossil fuel industry are at the climate summit in Glasgow. Their reps have attended climate summits for decades. Some are touting a shift toward renewables.

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Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to its being a small l

Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change

8:09am November 12, 2021

Photographer Vlad Sokhin's latest work, Warm Waters, is an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few.

As climate talks come to a close, not all the countries there are on the same page

8:03am November 12, 2021

Negotiations are coming down to the wire at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. There's a new draft agreement, but bitter differences remain between rich and poor countries.

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