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COP26

The Year in Climate Photos

From the president’s desk to protests and disasters around the world, photos showed climate change is always easy to see but sometimes hard to look at.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Evacuated resident April Phillips wipes her face while watching a family dog at an evacuation center for the Dixie Fire at Lassen Community College in Susanville, California on Aug. 6, 2021. Phillips and her family were living in their cars and were told it would be at least 10 days before they could return home during the second-worst wildfire in California's history. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Guillermo Fernandez holds a sign reading "Hunger strike for the climate for our children" during his hunger strike next to the Swiss House of Parliament in Bern on November 28, 2021. Fernandez wants to force to Federal Assembly to gather for a mandatory training session on the climate and ecological emergency. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Join Swiss Hunger Strike to Raise Climate Alarm

By Bob Berwyn

Activists seen holding banner during a protest ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Credit: Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

At COP26, a Consensus That Developing Nations Need Far More Help Countering Climate Change

By Agya K. Aning

A city worker in Glasgow, Scotland scrapes COP26 climate protest posters off a boarded-up storefront on Sauchiehall Street, where the week before thousands of demonstrators marched to express their disappointment with the lack of progress at the annual United Nations negotiations. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP Negotiators Demand Nations do More to Curb Climate Change, but Required Emissions Cuts Remain Elusive

By Bob Berwyn

Britain's President for COP26 Alok Sharma speaks with members of his team following an informal stocktaking session at the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 12, 2021. Credit: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

In a Stark Letter, and In Person, Researchers Urge World Leaders at COP26 to Finally Act on Science

By Bob Berwyn

Demonstrators join the Fridays For Future march on Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The Young Climate Diplomats Fighting to Save Their Countries

By Delger Erdenesanaa

An oil pumpjack is seen on April 16, 2021 near Eldorado, Texas. Credit: Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images

In Glasgow, COP26 Negotiators Do Little to Cut Emissions, but Allow Oil and Gas Executives to Rest Easy

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People are seen gathered on George Square during a rally on Nov. 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Credit: Peter Summers/Getty Images

At COP26, Youth Activists From Around the World Call Out Decades of Delay

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Tuvalu's Prime Minister Kausea Natano makes a national statement on the second day of the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on Nov. 2, 2021. Credit: Hannah McKay/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Nations Most Impacted by Global Warming Kept Out of Key Climate Meetings in Glasgow

By Bob Berwyn

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

By Bob Berwyn

Climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate participate in a Friday for Future student strike on Oct. 1, 2021 in Milan, Italy. Credit: Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images

Warming Trends: At COP26, a Rock Star Named Greta, and Threats to the Scottish Coast. Plus Carbon-Footprint Menus and Climate Art Galore

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The Climeworks direct air capture plant, which draws in ambient air and releases it largely cleaned of CO2, at the Hellisheidi power plant near Reykjavik on October 11, 2021. Credit: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: How Should We Account for Emerging Technologies in the Push for Net-Zero?

By Dan Gearino

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden gesture during the World Leaders' Summit "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" session during the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Over 100 Nations at COP26 Pledge to Cut Global Methane Emissions by 30 Percent in Less Than a Decade

By Phil McKenna, Marianne Lavelle

People who were forced to abandon their homes in the San Pedro Sula Valley due to floods in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta take refuge in a makeshift camp underneath an overpass in Chemelecon. Credit: Seth Sidney Berry/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

By 2050, 200 Million Climate Refugees May Have Fled Their Homes. But International Laws Offer Them Little Protection

By Moira Lavelle

An interior view of part of the Scottish Event Campus where the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow, United Kingdom this week. Credit: Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Glasgow Climate Talks Are, in Many Ways, ‘Harder Than Paris’

By Bob Berwyn

President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's social spending plans, as US Vice President Kamala Harris look on, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 28, 2021. Biden set out details of a revamped $1.75 trillion social spending package Thursday to structure a more equitable economy and tackle climate change, the culmination of weeks of intense negotiation. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Heads for Glasgow Climate Talks with High Ambitions, but Minus the Full Slate of Climate Policies He’d Hoped

By Marianne Lavelle

Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, speaks during the press conference introducing the Republican Climate Caucus outside of the Capitol on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Q&A: A Republican Congressman Hopes to Spread a New GOP Engagement on Climate from Washington, D.C. to Glasgow

By Judy Fahys

A demonstrator holds a banner reading "Energy liberate-ourselves from our fossil addictions" during a rally called by several NGOs to form a human chain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Dec. 12, 2015 on the sidelines of the COP21, the UN conference on global warming. Credit: Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images

World Leaders Failed to Bend the Emissions Curve for 30 Years. Some Climate Experts Say Bottom-Up Change May Work Better

By Bob Berwyn

Flames from a methane flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. Credit: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images

Global Methane Pledge Offers Hope on Climate in Lead Up to Glasgow

By Phil McKenna

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