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Tennessee residents clean up after severe weekend storms killed 6 people and damaged neighborhoods

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Dec 10, 2023 7:02 PM Read more >

At COP28, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and adapting to climate as talks near crunch time

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options so they can agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming and help vulnerable societies adapt to weather extremes as the clock runs down on Uni

Dec 10, 2023 10:28 AM Read more >

Baku to the future: After stalemate, UN climate talks will be in Azerbaijan in 2024

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For years, climate change has been a factor — not the only one — in wars and conflicts. Now for the first time, it's part of a peace deal.

Dec 10, 2023 9:00 AM Read more >

At UN climate talks, cameras are everywhere. Many belong to Emirati company with a murky history

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At the United Nations' COP28 climate summit in Dubai, surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere you turn. And that has some worried.

Dec 10, 2023 6:36 AM Read more >

The EU wants to put a tax on emissions from imports. It's irked some other nations at COP28

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A European Union plan to tax the carbon pollution emitted to make goods imported from countries like India and China has sparked a debate at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, as poorer countries fear s

Dec 10, 2023 5:33 AM Read more >

Brazil's Lula takes heat on oil plans at UN climate talks, a turnaround after hero status last year

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fresh off election victory, a year ago Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was the star of the annual U.N. climate talks.

Dec 10, 2023 5:27 AM Read more >

Indigenous services minister to table First Nations water bill as early as Monday

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu is expected to table much-anticipated legislation to improve water quality in First Nations communities as early as Monday.

Dec 10, 2023 4:00 AM Read more >

Cows in Rotterdam harbor, seedlings on rafts in India; are floating farms the future?

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — On the top deck of a three-tiered structure moored near downtown Rotterdam, brown and white cows graze on hay dropped from a conveyor belt above their heads and rinds of oranges salvaged from supermarket juice machines i

Dec 9, 2023 9:58 PM Read more >

Agriculture gets its day at COP28, but experts see big barriers to cutting emissions

More than 100 world leaders at this year's United Nations climate summit agreed to make their farm and food systems a key part of their plans to fight climate change, seeking improvements in a sector that accounts for about a third of planet-warming

Dec 9, 2023 9:52 PM Read more >

Protests at UN climate talks, from cease-fire calls to detainees, see 'shocking level of censorship'

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai.

Dec 9, 2023 6:15 PM Read more >