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Badly damaged buildings are pictured near Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on April 7, 2020, after Tropical Cyclone Harold swept past and hit islands to the north. The cyclone caused $600 million in damage, some 60 percent of the small Pacific island nation's GDP. Credit: PHILIPPE CARILLO/AFP via Getty Images.

Q&A: Rich and Poor Nations Have One More Chance to Come to Terms Over a Climate Change ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund

Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”

Sudanese security forces intervene in October 2021 as smoke billows from tyres set on fire by Sudanese students in the city of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, demonstrating against the hikes in bread prices due to low wheat supply following the closure of Sudans' Red Sea port of Port Sudan. Credit: Abdelmonim Madibu/AFP via Getty Images.

How Climate Change Drives Conflict and War Crimes Around the Globe

By Katie Surma

Recently cut timber in a forest near Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. The country is currently facing claims through the investor-state dispute settlements process, or ISDS, from three foreign mining companies seeking more than $30 billion, twice its gross domestic product.Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

A Shadowy Corner of International Law Is Threatening Climate Action, U.N. Expert Warns

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma

The photo posted on Twitter on July 22, 2020 purporting to show hundreds of brightly illuminated Chinese ships fishing illegally.

A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat

By Ian Urbina

Farm workers weigh jalapeño peppers after a day of work in San Francisco de Conchos, Chihuahua in August 2023. Many farm workers in the Delicias region are Rarámuri from the Sierra Tarahumara.

Tensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S.

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times    

In a new papal exhortation on climate change issued in advance of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis challenged U.N. negotiators to strengthen the agreement they reached in Paris in 2015, to include “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.” Credit: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images.

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

By James Bruggers

“Aluminum has a really big and positive role to play in the shift to clean energy and transportation and in creating a strong U.S. industry and jobs. But to make good on that promise, aluminum producers really need to reduce pollution and start modernizing and operating under updated rules so that there's less harm to people, the environment and the climate.” —Nadia Steinzor, Environmental Integrity Project. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

By Phil McKenna

As climate change brings record heat to U.S. cities and Baltimore residents try their best to stay cool, the state of Maryland works to meet its own ambitious emissions reduction goals to help counter the climate crisis. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images.

Why Maryland Is Struggling to Meet Its Own Aggressive Climate Goals

By Aman Azhar

Workers install solar panels at the Double Black Diamond solar farm near Springfield, a 593-megawatt project that will produce clean energy for the city of Chicago. Credit: Rich Saal/Provided.

Illinois’ Signature Climate Law Has Been Slow to Fulfill Promises for Clean Energy and Jobs

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times, and Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke at a press conference in July 2021 urging the inclusion of the Civilian Climate Corps., a climate jobs program, in the budget reconciliation bill. Congress refused, and the corps languished, until President Biden announced on Wednesday that he would create it working through multiple agencies. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

Biden Finds Funds to Launch an ‘American Climate Corps’ With Existing Authority Congress Has Given to Agencies

By Marianne Lavelle

A coal-burning energy plant, as seen through cloud cover near Bismarck, North Dakota. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images.

Errors In a Federal Carbon Capture Analysis Are a Warning for Clean Energy Spending, Former Official Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Replanted trees in the classified forest of Tene near Oumé, in the south western region in Ivory Coast. Tene is the largest reforestation site in the country. Credit: Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images.

Corporate Nature Restoration Results Murky at Best, Greenwashed at Worst

By Bob Berwyn

A female polar bear grabs some seaweed to feed her cub and herself along the shoreline of the Hudson Bay near Churchill on August 5, 2022. Credit: Olivier Morin / AFP via Getty Images)

New Research Shows Direct Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Polar Bear Decline

By Bob Berwyn

“We are Ome Yasuni.” Members of the Baihuaeri community of Bameno stand before a ceibo tree in their ancestral territory inside Yasuni National Park. Credit: photo courtesy of the Ome Yasuni association and Javier Awa Baihua.

After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Waorani Group Fights New Industry Expansions In Ecuador

By Katie Surma

Paiter-Surui volunteers alongside "forest engineers" from a Brazillian Government support program using GPS equipment to map and measure the trees and vegetation in the "7th September Indian Reserve" in Rondônia, Brazil. This information is intended to later be used to calculate the forest carbon content as part of REDD+, which stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project" was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. Credit: Craig Stennett/Getty Images.

Carbon Offsets to Reduce Deforestation Are Significantly Overestimating Their Impact, a New Study Finds

By Keerti Gopal

Supporters gather at a theater next to the court house in Helena Montana to watch the court proceedings for the nation's first youth climate change trial in June 2023. Sixteen plaintiffs, ranging in age from 6 to 22, are suing the state for promoting fossil fuel energy policies that they say violate their constitutional right to a "clean and healthful environment." Credit: William Campbell/Getty Images.

Q&A: A Legal Scholar Calls the Ruling in the Montana Youth Climate Lawsuit ‘Huge’

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