By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer The Paris 2024 organizing committee president says he still wants the surfing competition at next year’s Olympics to take place in Tahiti despite the controversy surrounding the construction of the judging tower at the site, where coral has been damaged. Tony Estanguet tells local media Polynesie La Premiere that
Continue ReadingWFTS, RICHARD SALZMAN, CNN By Casey Albritton Click here for updates on this story PINELLAS COUNTY, Florida (WFTS) — Christmas tree suppliers in the Tampa Bay Area are struggling with their tree supply this holiday. In previous years, there have been issues with inflation and worker shortages, but this year, the cause is the weather.
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By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish. A health company called The Blue Formula sells a powder containing collagen taken from the fish online to countries including the U.S. and China. The powder is designed
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By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News Dec. 6, 2023 “Judge overrules Texas, strikes down air pollution permit for Gulf Coast oil terminal” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal
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By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change. An analysis by World Weather Attribution found that the magnitude of the rainfall had nearly doubled due to global warming. The researchers found the
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials will decide whether to auction off a valuable and pristine piece of state land located within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park. The Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners has set a vote on the idea Thursday. State Lands Director Jenifer Scoggin recommends auction
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON, JOSHUA A. BICKEL and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The mood is about to shift, the hours grow longer and the already high sense of urgency somehow amp up even more as the United Nations climate summit heads into its final week. Every sentence, every
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities rescued people from raging rivers and roads submerged by high waters in the Pacific Northwest and continued to investigate the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in Oregon creeks this week as an atmospheric river brought heavy rain, flooding and unseasonably warm temperatures
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By DAVID KEYTON Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — This year’s climate talks should “mark the beginning of the end” of fossil fuels the European Commissioner for Climate Action said on Wednesday as the United Nations summit wrapped up its first week. Wopke Hoekstra told a news conference on the last day of
Continue Reading By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world is in danger of hitting the point of no return for five of Earth’s natural systems because of human-caused climate change, a team of 200 scientists said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations’ climate summit. The report
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham is seeking $500 million to establish a new “first-of-its-kind” strategic water supply to increase drought resilience and advance clean energy production in the state. “In arid states like ours, every drop counts. A warming climate throws that fact into sharper relief every day,” said Gov.
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference Wednesday are finishing up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine. Proponents
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The European climate agency calculates that for the sixth month in a row, Earth set a new monthly record for heat, and also added the hottest autumn to the litany of record-breaking heat this year. And with only one month left for the
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples. The sunset’s yellow light
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By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say at least 47 people are dead and 85 others injured following heavy flooding and landslides in northern Tanzania. The government has deployed the military to help rescue hundreds of people trapped by the flooding which has been described as the worst in years in
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world. The British Antarctic Survey said Monday that it was a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it drifts out of Antarctic waters. The RRS Sir
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution, said former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who added that the man leading the United Nations climate talks runs one of the “dirtiest” oil companies out there. “They’re much better
Continue ReadingCNN By Michelle Cohan, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Fire has played a crucial role in humanity for millennia. It’s allowed us to cook, construct, and keep warm. But this essential element is also the cause of major destruction — as witnessed by the increase in wildfires all over the world, which the UN Environment
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent developing-world leader on the issue of climate change said Monday that global taxes on the financial services, oil and gas, and shipping industries could drum up hundreds of billions to poorer countries adapt to and cope with global warming.
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — While Ukrainian diplomats take part in negotiations at the United Nations COP28 climate talks, Russia’s war on the country lurks just in the background. That’s even as the United Arab Emirates has seen its business ties to Moscow surge despite Western sanctions. As Ukraine
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Heavy rains and strong winds are pelting India’s southern and eastern coastlines and states have been put on high alert after a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a powerful storm. Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states in the south and Odisha in the east braced for flooding
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna says she is open to any resettlement request from tiny South Pacific nations threatened by rising sea levels, similar to Australia’s agreement with Tuvalu. Colonna said on Monday that France had watched with “great interest” last month when Australia offered Tuvalu
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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a mole species that has an iridescent golden coat and the ability to “swim” through sand dunes after it hadn’t been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be extinct. The De Winton’s
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By JAMEY KEATEN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nearly all the world’s nations finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by climate change, seen as a major first-day breakthrough at this year’s U.N. climate conference as early cash
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press 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. That’s according to Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pressure to phase out fossil fuels mounted Thursday on the oil company chief who took over fragile international climate negotiations that opened in Dubai on Thursday in what some say are contradictory dual roles. United Nations and climate talks leaders might have relieved
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By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has unveiled a new strategy that she says will help the state’s 78 coastal communities better cope with challenges brought on by climate change. One element of the “ResilientCoasts” initiative announced Tuesday is grouping geographic regions that share similar landscape characteristics and face
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders. The announcement marked the second time the pope’s frail health had forced the cancellation of a foreign trip: He had to postpone a planned trip to Congo and South Sudan in 2022 because of knee
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CNN, CHIREC INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL By Arya Jyothi, CNN (CNN) — November 28 was the third annual Call to Earth Day, an initiative dedicated to sustainability and conservation. Partnering with individuals, schools and organizations across the globe, CNN aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage education. Themed “Our Shared Home,” this year’s Call to
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