Even if the plan had a rough ride through the EU’s complicated approval process, the watered-down version was supposed to sail through the final vote. Photo: Bloomberg A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed Monday, underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping… Continue reading Major EU climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests | World News
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Climate change and desperate journeys | Book
ON THE MOVE: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America By Jon Gertner ON THE MOVE: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America Author: Abrahm Lustgarten Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Pages: 324 Price: $30 It’s happening already, of course. You can see it in the blazes in California,… Continue reading Climate change and desperate journeys | Book
Climate protests at UCI World Championships call attention to org’s policy on transgender female athletes
Five demonstrators were arrested on day four of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday in connection with a climate protest that also called out the sport governing body’s recent policy change that banned transgender athletes from women’s events. Sunday’s race was delayed for more than 45 minutes after a group… Continue reading Climate protests at UCI World Championships call attention to org’s policy on transgender female athletes
Winter vanishes, heat scorches the Andes as climate change meets El Nino
Buildings in Santiago, Chile, on Thursday, July 27, 2023 | Photo: Bloomberg By James Attwood Extreme heat scorching the Northern Hemisphere from California to China is also on show in the south, where parts of Chile and Argentina have seen temperatures soar in the depths of their winter. In Santiago,… Continue reading Winter vanishes, heat scorches the Andes as climate change meets El Nino
COP28 president UAE, UN body on climate change sign Host Country Agreement
The UAE, which holds the COP28 presidency, and the UNFCCC have signed the Host Country Agreement, strengthening their joint commitment to inclusivity and transparency at the summit to foster solidarity and transformative progress across the climate agenda. The Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host the 28th Conference of the Parties… Continue reading COP28 president UAE, UN body on climate change sign Host Country Agreement
Flooding in Beijing highlights climate change’s impact on rainfall
By Kendra Pierre-Louis Torrential rainfall from Typhoon Doksuri inundated Beijing on Monday, flooding neighborhoods, damaging roads and killing two people. Parts of the city saw up to three inches of rain, just over half of what Beijing usually gets in all of July. While it’s too soon to determine whether Typhoon Doksuri was… Continue reading Flooding in Beijing highlights climate change’s impact on rainfall
War, AI and climate change shaking up $32 trillion in global trade
By Bloomberg News In Morocco trucks from a Connecticut logistics company ferry car parts and clothing across the Strait of Gibraltar. In Japan a new semiconductor plant transforms a once-quiet farm town. In France a battery plant’s staff learns to supervise new colleagues: robots. These moments, which might seem unrelated, represent… Continue reading War, AI and climate change shaking up $32 trillion in global trade