At COP30 in Belém, climate delegates slept aboard diesel-powered cruise ships and traveled roads carved through newly deforested land, contradictions that unsettled many, including California’s contingent.
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The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say.
Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.
After nearly 50 years of operation, the Midwest Energy Resources coal terminal in Superior will shut down next June as coal shipments continue to decline amid the clean energy transition.
Liu Zhenmin also defended Beijing’s own climate efforts as “very ambitious.”
Tyson Foods will stop asserting it is pursuing production of “climate-smart” beef and working to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions as part of a legal settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the veracity of the company’s environmental claims.
Brazil’s biggest meat and agrochemical companies have paid nearly 200 influencers to promote their products in the year leading up to COP30, using pop culture and wellness messaging to deflect attention from their rising emissions and environmental harms.
World leaders have vowed to fight rising temperatures for years. Many of those pledges fade when the summits end.
Surging wind and solar additions are meeting all of this year’s growth in global electricity demand, keeping fossil fuel use flat for the first time since the pandemic.

Global rush for copper hits the Amazon
17 November
Wealthy nations’ surging appetite for metals has fueled a flurry of plans to mine in wilderness around the world, including on the edge of the Amazon Basin.
Utilities are producing eye-popping forecasts about the amount of electricity they'll need to power massive new data centers that are feeding the fast-growing AI economy.

Pitted against waste
17 November
East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations and a worker’s death.

Manitoba’s AI data center push, explained
16 November
Manitoba — home of much hydro power and notoriously cold winters — says it’s perfectly positioned for a data center boom. Here’s what that means for the province.
Threatened northern leopard frogs found near a proposed 32-well pad outside Aurora have become a central factor in residents’ push to block one of Colorado’s largest fossil fuel projects.
An British couple testing a data-center-powered heating system say their energy costs have plummeted after replacing their gas boiler with a HeatHub that repurposes warmth generated by hundreds of mini-computers.

The climate paradox of having a dog
16 November
My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway.
As scientists sound the alarm, the world is committing to climate action “with or without the United States.”
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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