COLOMBO - Nine people are dead and two others missing after floods in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India caused by more than a week of pounding rains. Nearly half of Sri Lanka's 25 districts have been hit by the deluge, with the worst…
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By Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers and Lisa Friedman GLASGOW — World leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements Tuesday (2) to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building…
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By Tatiana Schlossberg Wilston Vilchez, a third-generation coffee farmer in the mountains of Nicaragua, has witnessed drastic climatic changes on his 25-acre coffee and cacao farm for years, but when two hurricanes hit within 15 days last…
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By Jim Tankersley, Lisa Friedman and Somini Sengupta GLASGOW — World leaders opened a pivotal climate summit in Scotland on Monday (Nov 1) with apocalyptic warnings about the scarce time left to avert catastrophic global warming, yet…
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By Somini Sengupta As presidents and prime ministers arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for a pivotal climate summit, the outcome will determine, to a large extent, how the world’s 7 billion people will survive on a hotter planet and whether…
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By Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers and Shashank Bengali ROME - Fresh off a win Saturday (30) with a global corporate tax agreement and some progress toward restoring the nuclear accord with Iran, President Joe Biden returned for the final day…
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KABUL - Afghanistan's new Taliban regime urged international donors to resume full support for green projects in the country on Sunday (31), marking the start of the COP26 summit. The Islamist movement seized power in Afghanistan in…
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By Elise Blanchard QALA I NAW - Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan. Oblivious to the deal, six-year-old Faristeh and 18-month-old…
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By Brad Plumer The world’s countries have begun to make meaningful progress in the fight against climate change over the past decade, new data shows, thanks to a rapid expansion of clean energy. Yet the planet is still on track for…
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By Robin Millard GENEVA - More than five billion people could have difficulty accessing water in 2050, the United Nations warned Tuesday (5), urging leaders to seize the initiative at the COP26 summit. Already in 2018, 3.6 billion…
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