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Mexico's presidential candidates discuss social spending, climate change in 2nd debate
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate repeatedly touted the social programs of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and walked a fine line between supporting the national oil company and promising a clean energy transition in the ...ABC News - World - Climate -
Energy secretary defends approach on climate after criticism
Claire Coutinho joins the show a day after the head of the climate change watchdog said the UK is now "less ambitious" with green policy.BBC News - Top stories - Climate -
GOP senators, Manchin challenge SEC climate disclosure rule
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined a resolution from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that aims to overturn a new rule on climate disclosures approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. Manchin, the chair of the Senate Energy and ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
White House considering national climate emergency declaration
The White House is considering declaring a national climate emergency to unlock federal powers and stifle oil development, according to a Bloomberg report. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is announcing several projects this Earth Week. ...CBS News - Top stories - Climate -
Tall flowers, dead shrubs, ephemeral lake: Death Valley has become a picture of climate whiplash
Death Valley has ping ponged between severe drought and record rainfall, giving rise to extra-tall wildflowers, an ephemeral lake and dead bushes.NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
Sen. Whitehouse: Climate change could crash the financial system
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Sen. Whitehouse: Climate change could crash the financial system Climate change’s impact on insurance companies is putting the U.S. in danger ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
New research shows millions of species could face extinction due to climate change
A 2019 U.N. report found around 1 million plant and animal species could be threatened with extinction, but new research shows climate change could drive that number up to 6 million over the next 50 years. Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant joined ...CBS News - Top stories - Climate -
World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect
Environmental and animal welfare groups call on lender to phase out support for ‘industrial’ livestock operations. The private sector arm of the World Bank is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
Deadly Dubai floods made worse by climate change
But it rains so rarely in the region that scientists do not have enough data to be fully sure.BBC News - Top stories - Climate -
Appeals court rejects climate change lawsuit by young Oregon activists against US government
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rightsABC News - Top stories - Climate -
'Snow deluge' years on the decline across the US West, thanks to climate change: Study
While climate change is in general increasing the ferocity and frequency of severe weather events, the same effects may not apply to the massive snow dumps that occasionally pummel the U.S. West. The quantity of snow that falls during so-called ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Living to 95 may impact the world as much as AI and climate change
You need an “evergreen” approach to life, work and health, economics professor Andrew Scott says.MarketWatch - Business - Climate -
Climate change: the connection between land and sea
The ocean makes up about 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and what goes on beneath the water is still largely unknown. Organizations like the Schmidt Ocean Institute are working to improve our understanding by using new technology to highlight ...NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
Nowhere for the water to go: Dubai flooding shows the world is failing a big climate change drainage test
Urban environments paved over nature like Dubai with no way to drain the water from more frequent, massive rainfalls need new solutions for climate change fast.CNBC - Business - Climate -
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published
The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings. From the depths of his extraordinarily vibrant imagination, he famously conjured up Mr Benn, Not Now, Bernard, King ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
SEC pauses climate disclosure rule pending court challenge
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday announced it will stay implementation of its final rule requiring companies to disclose their climate-related risks pending the results of a legal challenge from GOP-led states. The SEC ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Climate change threatens the coastal Gullah Geechee
Residents of coastal Gullah Geechee communities are at risk of losing their homes with more frequent storm surges, rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change.NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
Conspiracies and cynical indifference are the right's latest climate strategy
Science denialism — especially when it comes to climate change — is also embedded in Republican Party orthodoxy.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
After climate tipping points, change will come slowly, then all at once
Climate scientists are beginning to worry we may be at a terrifying juncture, where the climate shifts dramatically from one state to another.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Amid legal challenges, SEC pauses its climate rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would pause the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defended the regulation in courtABC News - Top stories - Climate -
European court rules nations must protect citizens from effects of climate change
Europe’s Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the Swiss government violated a duty to address the effects of climate change on its citizens, a decision that could have major impacts for other European nations. The court sided with a group of ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals. Shortly after Charles Darwin published his magnum opus, The Origin of Species, in 1859 he started reading a little-known 100-year-old work by a ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
EPA's Deceptive Climate Regulations Won't Stand in Court
If the major-questions doctrine doesn’t kill them, the ‘rule against pretext’ will.The Wall Street Journal - World - Climate -
Waste not, want not: How methane biogases can help us reach our climate goals
How can the U.S. meet its 30x30 methane goal? Tapping America’s massive organic waste streams as a renewable energy resource.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Government defeated in High Court over climate plans
Activists argued that the plan for cutting emissions would not meet the UK's climate targets.BBC News - Top stories - Climate -
UK government’s climate action plan is unlawful, High Court rules
Judgment upholds four of five grounds for legal challenge brought by campaign groups against net zero strategyFinancial Times - World - United Kingdom -
Florida sees thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds
Florida wildlife corridor will spearhead climate resilience if allowed to evolve and essential preparatory work done, study says. Climate predictions in Florida, for the most part, make pretty grim reading. Rising oceans threaten to submerge most ...The Guardian - World - Florida -
The UK government acted unlawfully in approving a climate plan, a High Court judge has ruled
A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be deliveredABC News - Tech - United Kingdom