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Akron police chief allows cops to stop wearing their name tags after the fatal shooting of Jayland Walker, citing threats on social media
Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot 46 times by police, the county medical examiner c…
Katie Anthony
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9 out of 10 children breathe air that can harm them, warns WHO. Meet the bereaved mother who went to COP 26 to demand change.
Londoner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, whose nine-year-old daughter died from air pollution, went to COP26…
Bethany Dawson
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US reverses position and agrees to put money towards a fund that would help poorer nations address climate change
The decision will help developing countries rebuild from the damages they have experienced as a res…
Hannah Getahun
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Could BBMP’s new climate action plan for Bengaluru restore India's ‘Garden City’ to its former glory?
Sprawling with lush trees and a constant freshening breeze, Bengaluru certainly lived up to its tit…
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Rich countries driving the climate crisis have agreed to pay developing nations for damage. But collecting the money will be tough.
World leaders reached a historic deal to pay developing countries for climate damages but did littl…
Catherine Boudreau
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Biden had 'intensive' talks with Egyptian government officials about activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who's on a hunger strike after nearly a decade in jail
President Joe Biden spoke with officials about the activist who's spent years in jail after a 2011 …
Catherine Boudreau
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'Brazil is back!': How a change in political leadership could help save the Amazon — and the world
Brazil's President-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told the UN's COP27 climate summit there won't…
Catherine Boudreau
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A tiny Pacific island nation threatened by rising sea levels plans to create a digital copy of itself in the metaverse
Tuvalu hopes that digitization will let it preserve the cultural heritage of its 12,000 people if c…
Stephanie Stacey
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'The Office' star Rainn Wilson says he's changing his name to bring attention to the melting Arctic
Rainn Wilson announced at COP27 that he will now go by "Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson" …
Rebecca Cohen
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John Kerry says there will be 'an outcome of some kind' in talks with poorer nations about climate reparations and again called on China to chip in
Developing countries want to make rich ones pay for outsized contributions to the climate crisis, a…
Catherine Boudreau
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went on an 18-month, $85 million real-estate shopping spree including a previously unknown Hawaii estate
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has snapped up multimillion-dollar properties in San Francisco, Napa, and Haw…
Katherine Long,Hugh Langley
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The US is creating a carbon-offset plan for corporations that would fund developing countries' moves to clean energy
A US plan would let companies that finance renewable-energy projects count resulting emissions redu…
Catherine Boudreau
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As Biden touts his climate plans and says 'everyone has to act,' many wonder when the US will take on what it's asking others to do
President Joe Biden said the US is meeting the climate crisis with urgency and called for more spen…
Catherine Boudreau
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Very strongly hope India's G20 presidency will help create effective debt restructuring systems: UN chief
India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2…
PTI
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Vanguard's decision to leave the world's biggest climate-finance group could impede Biden's plan to protect Americans' savings from the climate crisis
Vanguard pulled out of a coalition of investment groups aiming to fight climate change because it w…
Ayelet Sheffey
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OPINION: Is climate finance a pipedream or a reality?
Low-income and developing countries bear the brunt of climate change even though they are the least…
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India is harnessing renewable energy through the world's biggest solar farm. Here's how it happened.
The largest solar farm in the world is located in Rajasthan, India, and generates enough electricit…
James O'Malley
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India’s updated climate goals reflect geopolitical realities amid growing barriers to climate action
According to data from the Ministry of Power, currently, 58.5% of the total 403 gigatonnes of insta…
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CO2 emissions from building and construction hits a new high: Report
The sector's operational energy-related CO2 emissions reached 10 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent …
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Budgeting for the fifth C
The author discusses the five types of global risks and how the last budget conveyed a more serious…