The two countries set to lead this year’s COP31 have unveiled three headline goals for November’s UN climate summit - on electrification, waste, and buildings.
Politics
The Trump administration’s top water official heads to Capitol Hill as the Interior Department readies politically wrenching decisions for the drought-shriveled Colorado River.
Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.
JPMorgan topped the list of bankers embracing “disaster capitalism” as Trump’s climate deregulation policies inspire more industry investments, new report finds.
For Diane Wilson, the 8,000-mile trip to Formosa Plastics’ annual shareholder meeting in Taipei was part of a strategy of being relentless.
New research shows that accelerating Europe's green transition by a decade could now pay for itself — and then some.
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say.
EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”
The Republican-backed House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which could rein in some data center costs but extend the life of costly old coal plants.
The conventional wisdom says climate change is a losing issue. Evidence suggests it actually helps Democrats win elections.
In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed.
The Iran war is pushing countries to prioritize domestic energy in order to protect themselves from volatile oil and natural gas markets.
The long read: The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wildernesses.
State leaders are rolling out energy and environmental guardrails for data centers as politics heat up over the sprawling AI campuses.
U.S. withdrawal means Europe is a lifeline for ocean research, although a poorer one.
Environmental advocates, doctors, and even players themselves demanding that FIFA cut ties with the fossil fuel industry, which they say is adversely impacting players' health, and threatening the future of the sport itself.
At the Museum of Unnatural Disasters, members of Congress, disaster survivors, and activists are bringing their worries about preparedness to the seat of power.
With so much sunlight, Iraq is very well-positioned to use solar power to help fix its annual summer electricity crisis. So why is it that Iraq's government has only recently started to take solar power seriously?
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