climate

Biden says climate fears are well-founded but touts progress at the U.N. summit

5:09pm November 02, 2021

by Brian Naylor

While President Biden has been working with world leaders on the pressing issue of climate change, his domestic plans for more funding still face holdouts.

Politics & Government

Listen live to President Biden speak from the U.N. climate summit

3:18pm November 02, 2021

President Biden attends the United Nations climate summit, known as COP26, in Glasgow this week. Listen live on the NPR One app to his press conference.

The Biden administration is announcing new and proposed regulations to limit climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas operations and pipelines. This undated file photo shows the Trans-Alaska pipeline and pump station north of Fairbanks.

Biden joins global push to cut climate-warming methane emissions

2:36pm November 02, 2021

by Jeff Brady

In a major expansion, proposed U.S. rules would apply not only to new oil and gas operations but also older ones. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas considered key to slowing global warming quickly.

Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye speaks at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in 2019. She and a group of Ugandan activists are calling on high-income countries to commit to bigger and faster emission cuts ahead of COP26, the climate change s

A climate change disaster led this shy 24-year-old from Uganda into activism

11:56am November 02, 2021

by Lauren Sommer

When Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was a girl, a severe storm flooded her family's farm. Now she realizes that climate change was a factor — and she's become an advocate for change.

Aerial view of illegal deforestation at the Natural National Park in La Macarena, Meta Department, Colombia, in 2020.

Nations with 85% of Earth's forests pledge to reverse deforestation

10:55am November 02, 2021

by Scott Neuman

More than 100 countries have pledged to reverse the loss of crucial forestland needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

National

Colorado's Dolores River should be raging through canyons — instead it's nearly dry

8:17am November 02, 2021

by A Martínez

Drought conditions exacerbated by climate change is forcing tough choices for the water-starved regions of southwest Colorado, where farmers count on irrigated lands for farming and industry.

Biden administration proposes rules to cut climate-warming methane emissions

7:40am November 02, 2021

In a major expansion, the new rules would apply not just to new operations but to older ones as well. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and considered key to slowing global warming quickly.

A dry landscape pictured on Navajo Nation lands on in the town of Gallup, New Mexico in June 2019. New research says the near-total loss of tribal lands in the U.S. has left Indigenous people more vulnerable to climate change.

How loss of historical lands makes Native Americans more vulnerable to climate change

7:00am November 02, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Indigenous nations across the U.S. lost nearly 99% of their historical land base over time, new research shows. What little land they have left is especially vulnerable to climate change risks.

News brief: climate meeting, Texas abortion law, Election Day in Virginia

6:08am November 02, 2021

The climate summit continues in Glasgow, Scotland. The Supreme Court heard two challenges to the Texas abortion law. Virginia voters will cast ballots in a tight governor's race.

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Karine Elharrar, Orna Barbivai and Meir Cohen from the Yesh Atid party arrive for consultations on the formation of a coalition government in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021.

Israel's energy minister couldn't enter COP26 because of wheelchair inaccessibility

7:30pm November 01, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Energy minister Karine Elharrar says she was taken to several entrances on Monday, the first full day of the conference, but was unable to get inside from any of them.