Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Resilience
A handful of U.S. farmers are looking at a new solution to extreme weather. Perennial grains may better withstand extreme drought like the one earlier this year that devastated some wheat farmers in Kansas.
Maine quarries proliferate as property owners in coastal towns build sea walls, triggering a slough of local ordinances regulating where the rocks come and and where they go.
"The Esky Lid" is a mechanical contraption that will be able to seal off Brisbane's new underground tunnels from floodwaters.
Data from around Maine suggests the state never fully recovered from last fall’s drought, leaving the state in a tough position as conditions worsen once again, according to the Maine Drought Task Force.
New research finds urban woodlands can provide the strongest cooling during extreme heat, outperforming grasslands, lakes, parks, and green walls.
An analysis of 30 years of satellite images of penguin guano shows how the birds’ diets are shifting in response to warming.
Local communities in Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan are turning to the Indigenous practice of glacier grafting as water shortages take hold.
The country’s water crisis threatens drinking water and hydropower and worsens the risk of destructive fires.
It’s been one disaster after another. And it may pale in comparison to what’s coming.
By rejecting an international arbitration panel's ruling, New Delhi has cast fresh doubt on the future of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.

Inside the passage of America’s biggest climate law
02 September
In a new memoir, author Leah Stokes takes readers behind the scenes of U.S. democracy — and shows how people can still have an outsize impact by working together.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s new carbon market rules threatened money for certain climate programs. He struck a deal to continue funding for transit and water projects.
The United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

The Amazon’s defenders declare a state of emergency
02 September
As governments push oil and mining expansion, thousands of Indigenous leaders and activists gathered in Ecuador to chart another path.
The outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter, as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more.
Homeowners rebuilding in Lahaina have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to unlicensed or unreliable contractors. Government officials have so far failed to hold anyone accountable.

How urban farming in America has grown
01 September
Farms within cities and towns have always been a key source of food security in the United States. How will they evolve?
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