16 January 2018

Umair Irfan: Cars and trucks are America’s biggest climate problem for the 2nd year in a row

Overall emissions are falling, but not fast enough to hit international targets.

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Statsminister Jonas Gahr: Speaker at COP30

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COP30: 'Climate conference of truth' in Brazil?

At COP30, the international community again will try to agree on targets to limit catastrophic global temperature rise. But many barriers remain before steep greenhouse gas cuts are realized.

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The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp'

Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.

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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, met with Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director,

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Why everyone wants to meet the ‘world’s most boring man’

Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?

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In 10 years since Paris climate agreement, progress on warming but not nearly enough

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the 2015 accord.

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California’s drying Salton Sea harms the lungs of people living nearby, say researchers

Experts suspect that dust from the sea contains endotoxic bacteria membranes caused by fertilizer runoff.

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a close up of a mosquito on a human's skin.

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A disease-carrying mosquito has landed in the Rocky Mountains where it historically couldn’t survive

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Western Colorado.

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A smokestack spews pollution as a plane flies by in the distance across a cityscape and late day sun.

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How Trump officials have transformed the EPA to weaken enforcement

An analysis of environmental enforcement cases, together with targeted furloughs during the federal shutdown, shows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's shift towards deregulation.

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www.washingtonpost.com