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NATO Moves to Tackle Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even While Girding Against Russia

Climate change is on the agenda at a three-day summit in Madrid, as the alliance seeks to respond to the Ukraine crisis.

By Marianne Lavelle

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference holds a press conference ahead of the NATO leaders summit held in Spain's capital Madrid, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on June 27, 2022. Credit: NATO/POOL/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Smoke rises from a coal-powered power station in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province on Nov. 3, 2021. Credit: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

China Ramps Up Coal Power to Boost Post-Lockdown Growth

By Eleanor Olcott, The Financial Times

Stacks emit steam at the Jim Bridger Power Plant Feb. 14, 2001 near Point of Rocks, Wyoming. Credit: Michael Smith/Newsmakers

In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Workers for Ideal Energy install solar panels on the roof of a natural foods store in Fairfield, Iowa. Credit: Ideal Energy

Inside Clean Energy: Navigating the U.S. Solar Industry’s Spring of Discontent

By Dan Gearino

An aerial view of the campus at Texas A&M on Sept. 8, 2012 in College Station, Texas. Credit: Kevin Butts/Replay Photos via Getty Images

Texas A&M Shut Down a Major Climate Change Modeling Center in February After a ‘Default’ by Its Chinese Partner

By Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News and Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle

Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde competes in the mens downhill final during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing on Feb. 7, 2022. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

China Provided Abundant Snow for the Winter Olympics, but at What Cost to the Environment?

By Cristobella Durrette

An aerial photo taken on Sept. 12, 2021 shows a chemical factory being dismantled and relocated along the Grand Canal in Huai 'an City, East China's Jiangsu Province. Credit: He Jinghua / Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

China Moves to Freeze Production of Climate Super-Pollutants But Lacks a System to Monitor Emissions

By Phil McKenna

New Report Expects Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide to Rebound to Pre-Pandemic High This Year

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An aerial photo taken on Sept. 12, 2021 shows a chemical factory being dismantled and relocated along the Grand Canal in Huai 'an City, East China's Jiangsu Province. Credit: He Jinghua/Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

China Just Entered a Major International Climate Agreement. Now Comes the Hard Part

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House April 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

Workers install wind turbines at Yuxia wind farm on mountain on June 15, 2020 in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province of China. Credit: Chen Fuping/VCG via Getty Images

How the Race for Renewable Energy is Reshaping Global Politics

By Leslie Hook and Henry Sanderson

CFC-11 was used primarily to make foam insulation, and was slowly phased out before being banned entirely by 2010. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A New Study Closes the Case on the Mysterious Rise of a Climate Super-Pollutant

By Phil McKenna

Restrictive safety standards in the U.S. and elsewhere have limited production of propane based air conditioners to just 1 percent of total capacity from 18 assembly lines across China that were retooled to use propane with money from the United Nations. Credit: Feng Hao

Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them

By Phil McKenna, By Phil McKenna and Feng Hao

Linggas tanks have begun capturing and purifying waste nitrous oxide gas from the Henan Shenma Nylon Chemical Company in central China. Credit: Geng Xue, Linggas

A Chinese Chemical Company Captures and Reuses 6,000 Tons of a Super-Polluting Greenhouse Gas

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

Paramilitary policemen evacuate people in a flooded region in Wanzhou in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Thursday, July 16, 2020. Credit: Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

China’s Summer of Floods is a Preview of Climate Disasters to Come

By Lili Pike

Petrochina Liaoyang Petrochemical Company in Liaoyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Credit Yang Qing/Xinhua via Getty

‘Super-Pollutant’ Emitted by 11 Chinese Chemical Plants Could Equal a Climate Catastrophe

By PHIL MCKENNA, LILI PIKE, KATRINA NORTHROP

Vice President Joe Biden reaches to shake hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping, as President Barack Obama stands nearby during arrival ceremony at the White House September 25, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Will China and the US Become Climate Partners Again?

By Lili Pike

In Guinea, Zhang Jingjing works with Mamady Koivogui and other local environmentalists to decrease the pollution and social disruption caused by Chinese bauxite mining. Courtesy of Zhang Jingjing

‘China’s Erin Brockovich’ Goes Global to Hold Chinese Companies Accountable

By Lili Pike

Workers install PV modules in September 2016. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL

Inside Clean Energy: Rooftop Solar Gets a Lifeline in Arkansas

By Dan Gearino

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