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Indigenous People Take the Stage at COP30 Climate Talks in Belém, Brazil

14 novembre 2025 à 09:12
This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong.

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An Indigenous rights demonstration on Thursday in Belém, Brazil. The snake in the background was a prop with a meaning.
Reçu hier — 13 novembre 2025

The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum

13 novembre 2025 à 13:43
The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

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A lobby of the COP30 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
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There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy.

12 novembre 2025 à 09:10
The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.

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Pump jacks in Russia in 2023. The energy agency’s reports are influential and often cited by energy companies and investors as a basis for long-term planning.

Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip

12 novembre 2025 à 00:06
The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Tuesday.

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling

13 novembre 2025 à 02:57
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

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An oil rig off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif. The plan would also require new oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics

10 novembre 2025 à 11:15
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

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A solar farm near Kayathar in southern India. The country can now meet half of its electricity demand with wind, solar, and hydropower.

Tackling Climate Change Without the U.S.

10 novembre 2025 à 00:15
This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil. So far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending.

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The U.N. climate conference is being held in Belém, Brazil.

What Questions Do You Have About Climate Change?

9 novembre 2025 à 08:25
“Ask a Correspondent” will take your questions to Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter.

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Leaders at COP30 Climate Summit in Belém Focus on the Rising Toll of Warming

7 novembre 2025 à 16:56
“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”

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World leaders posed for a photo on Friday at COP30, the United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil.

COP30 Begins With U.S. Allies and Rivals Alike Calling for Action

7 novembre 2025 à 11:35
The calls for action on opening day stood in sharp contrast to the position of the President Trump, who has called global warming a “con job.”

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Leaders meeting on Thursday in Belém, Brazil. The conference is scheduled to run through Nov. 21.

Climate Diplomacy and Hardball Tactics

6 novembre 2025 à 15:18
With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.

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The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday.

Lula Hitches a Ride to the COP30 Climate Talks in a Chinese E.V.

7 novembre 2025 à 15:13
The climate-friendly fleet assembled to shuttle delegations to the gathering in Brazil sent a clear signal: China is making inroads in Latin America.

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A factory in Camaçari, Brazil, assembling vehicles for BYD, the Chinese manufacturer of the electric car that took President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil.

The U.S. Is Skipping This Year’s Climate Summit. For Many, That’s OK.

6 novembre 2025 à 07:58
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.

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The conference venue in Belém, Brazil, this week. The talks, known as COP30, are scheduled to run through Nov. 21.

COP30 U.N. Climate Talks Are Starting in Brazil. Here’s What to Know.

6 novembre 2025 à 05:01
Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for annual talks on how to limit global warming.

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The COP30 venue in Belém, Brazil, this week. World leaders will address the meeting starting on Thursday.

Analysis Finds Global Warming Made Hurricane Melissa More Damaging

6 novembre 2025 à 00:31
Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found.

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Clearing fallen trees in Westmorelands Parish, in western Jamaica, on Sunday.

Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests

5 novembre 2025 à 05:02
The multibillion-dollar fund would essentially pay countries to keep forests standing, hoping for success where earlier forest-protection ideas have struggled.

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Morning mist in Carajás National Forest, Brazil. The proposal comes as global climate talks start this week in Brazil.

U.N. Report on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Finds Slight Progress

4 novembre 2025 à 09:00
The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global warming.

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Solar panels in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region. Rapid growth of clean energy technologies like solar panels and electric vehicles have slightly reduced forecasts of future emissions in places like China and Europe.

Amazon Oil Drilling Undermines Brazil’s Climate Credibility Before COP30

4 novembre 2025 à 05:00
Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil wants to reduce carbon emissions and deforestation, but has also wants to drill for oil in the Amazon region.

In ‘Kyoto,’ Seeking to Save the Earth but Veering Off Course

4 novembre 2025 à 07:45
At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.

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Stephen Kunken as the Iago-like Don and Natalie Gold as his wife, Shirley, in “Kyoto” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in Manhattan.

Air Pollution Could Be Contributing to Your Slower Marathon Time

1 novembre 2025 à 15:53
Marathon runners consistently finished slower in cities with higher levels of dangerous particles in the air, researchers found.

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Runners crossing the Harlem River during the New York Marathon last year.

The Warnings Before the Hurricane

30 octobre 2025 à 01:30
Island countries understood that a day like this would come.

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As China and U.S. Split Over Energy, Korea Is Stuck in the Middle

29 octobre 2025 à 11:00
It needs the United States for defense and has spent billions building factories in America. But a Trump trade deal this week with China could erase a Korean edge in the U.S. market.

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The U.S. has been pushing Korea to buy more liquefied natural gas. A tanker in South Korea in 2019.

Small Island Nations Lack Funds to Fight Climate Disasters

29 octobre 2025 à 10:10
As Hurricane Melissa threatens island nations across the Caribbean, many are already burdened by debt from a string of climate-fueled crises.

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A resident of Port Royal, Jamaica, tried to protect a chicken coop this week ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa.

Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws

25 octobre 2025 à 14:52
The oil giant said requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights.

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The laws Exxon is challenging would affect several thousand large companies in the state. An Exxon station in Albany, Calif.

An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders

25 octobre 2025 à 05:01
Some carmakers and energy executives say the plan would trigger costly litigation and spur individual states to create a patchwork of tighter rules.

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A Honda plant in Ohio. The Trump administration has said its plan will benefit the auto industry in particular.

Staghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say

23 octobre 2025 à 14:00
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.

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Bleached and dying elkhorn coral at Looe Key Reef, off Big Pine Key in Florida, during an ocean heat wave in 2023.

Iceland Says It Is No Longer Mosquito-Free

22 octobre 2025 à 16:57
Iceland was one of the only mosquito-free places in the world, at least according to its records. Not anymore.

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A common house mosquito (culex pipiens), a different type from the ones found in Iceland last week.

World Falling Short on Methane Pledge, U.N. Report Finds

22 octobre 2025 à 07:22
Several agency programs are trying to track and reduce methane emissions around the world. To meet global targets, use of them needs to speed up.

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Each year, oil, gas and coal industries pump out an estimated 120 million metric tons of methane, according to the International Energy Agency.

Reviving California’s Kelp Forests, One Dive at a Time

21 octobre 2025 à 21:26
Cove by cove, scientists, divers and volunteers are hauling up urchins to protect kelp.

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Helping to Save the Bees With Plants in Kansas

21 octobre 2025 à 21:29
About 97 percent of the land in the state is privately owned. Meet the people helping to make it friendlier for native bugs.

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