“The government should stop prosecuting peaceful protesters, and instead find ways to tackle the climate crisis,” defense attorney Raj Chada said. Source link
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This is the second installment of a two-part series examining the hardship nomadic herders face in a fast-changing Mongolia. ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia ― One afternoon in the mountain pasture where her family had grazed their livestock for as many generations as anyone could trace ― about 800 miles west of this polluted capital to which she…
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This is the first installment of a two-part series examining the hardship that nomadic herders face in a fast-changing Mongolia. The second will publish on Saturday. SANT, Mongolia — Davaadalai Gongor, 41, tried feeding his family exactly as his ancestors had for thousands of years, traveling these central grasslands of the Asian steppe herding sheep…
Nearly 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the halls of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai — a record number that’s nearly four times the industry’s presence at last year’s negotiations. That’s according to a new analysis from Kick Big Polluters Out, a coalition of groups that advocates for ridding the annual climate talks of…
Sultan Al Jaber, the oil company boss presiding over the COP28 climate conference, has spent the last week defending himself against a rising tide of public outrage, first over how he reportedly tried to use the international talks to strike backdoor oil and gas deals for the United Arab Emirates and most recently that he…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future. The World Meteorological Organization also warned that the average temperature for the…
At a time when ambitious climate goals loom large on the horizon, one of the most potent methods to combat climate change and protect our ecosystems is the simple act of large-scale tree planting, which forms crucial carbon sinks. Carbon sinks absorb excessive CO2. In their absence, we are jeopardising habitat stability and the migration…