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16 12 2023 | 23:27

Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?

ELY, Nevada—The smell of piñon pine filled the air as the Ghost Train of Old Ely rolled to a stop between the Duck Creek Range and another railway. Two peaks of jagged limestone towered above the…

16 12 2023 | 23:24

As Financial Turmoil Threatens Plans for an Alabama Wood Pellet Plant, Advocates Question Its Climate and Community Benefits

EPES, Ala.—Portia Shepherd said “it’s a God thing.” When she learned that Enviva, an international wood pellet company, is facing a financial crisis that may impact its plans in Alabama, she was…

16 12 2023 | 23:19

Moving South, Black Americans Are Weathering Climate Change

This story was originally published by Capital B. Please sign up for Capital B’s newsletter, which comes out each week, to follow similar stories. Stephanie Roberson wasn’t expecting this phone call…

16 12 2023 | 23:16

Nature Got a More Prominent Place at the Table at COP28

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates— As COP28 ended with just a faint glimmer of hope that the world will take seriously the need to decarbonize by 2050, leading scientists at the conference said it’s time…

16 12 2023 | 23:14

Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’

Catherine Coleman Flowers brings Alabama’s Black Belt with her everywhere she goes. She can’t help it.  Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, most…

16 12 2023 | 23:10

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry?

SAN FRANCISCO—Scientists who have risked their careers, freedom and livelihoods led a town hall meeting here on Tuesday at the world’s largest annual gathering of earth and space scientists to ask…

16 12 2023 | 23:07

The U.S. May Not Have Won Over Critics in Dubai, But the Biden Administration Helped Keep the Process Alive

When it looked like climate negotiations in Dubai were about to fall apart early this week over the summit’s failure to make any commitment to transition away from fossil fuels, U.S. Special Climate…

16 12 2023 | 23:05

COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Going into overtime under the cover of a dark winter night in Dubai, climate negotiators at COP28 cooked up a weak sauce of climate half-measures that fail to adequately…

16 12 2023 | 23:00

Hurricane-Weary Floridians Ask: What U.N. Climate Talks?

CEDAR KEY, Fla.—For this island fishing village along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Hurricane Idalia wrought some of its worst damage not on land but offshore.

16 12 2023 | 22:56

From Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania to Toxic Waste in Texas, Tracking Vinyl Chloride Production in the U.S.

On the evening of May 17, 1970, the 19th car of a freight train derailed in the Pennsylvania village of Cromby, a small town nestled along a horseshoe curve in the Schuylkill River about 30 miles…

16 12 2023 | 22:51

New UN ‘Roadmap’ Lays Out a Global Vision for Food Security and Emissions Reductions

As the United Nations’ annual climate summit wraps up in Dubai this week, farm and food groups are applauding the conference leadership for its intensified focus on agriculture, a major source of…

16 12 2023 | 22:46

With $25 Million and Community Collaboration, Baltimore Is Becoming a Living Climate Lab

Harm City: Fifth in a series about environmental justice and climate adaptation in Baltimore’s neighborhoods. For Ben Zaitchik, the moment had arrived. He’d been working at Johns Hopkins University…

16 12 2023 | 22:43

Scientists to COP28: ‘We’re Clearly in The Danger Zone’

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—As negotiators at COP28 debate which verbs in the final documents would indicate the correct level of urgency, scientists at the global talks delivered a simple, dire…

16 12 2023 | 22:39

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.—Grant Long never thought he’d be in the audience of a U.S. presidential debate. But last week, Long, a 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman, took his seat at what was the state’s first-ever debate for the nation’s top office—a GOP

Alabama students on both sides of the political aisle said that in the reality of today’s world and political environment, one mention of a pressing global issue simply won’t suffice.  “Whether the…

16 12 2023 | 22:33

US Climate Activists at COP28 Slam Their Home Country for Hypocrisy

Claims by some U.S. lawmakers at COP28 that President Biden’s policies provide global leadership on climate rang hollow with leading American climate activists at the annual conference who faulted…

16 12 2023 | 22:29

US Lawmakers Confer With World Leaders at COP28

Because of Biden’s domestic policies, other countries are once again looking to the United States for climate leadership, said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, the ranking Democrat on the Energy…

16 12 2023 | 22:19

Texas Court Strikes Down Air Pollution Permit for Gulf Coast Oil Terminal

For the second time in three weeks, a court struck down an air pollution permit issued by Texas’ environmental regulator.  In a one-page ruling posted Tuesday, Travis County District Court Judge Amy…

16 12 2023 | 22:09

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador’s Rainforest and the Rule of Law That Might Save Those Who Live There

The Education of Judith Kimerling: An American lawyer’s epic struggle to stop expanding oil operations harming Indigenous peoples in Ecuador’s Amazon. Part two.

16 12 2023 | 21:38

Denmark, a Global Climate Policy Leader, Strains to Live Up to High Ambitions

But the project isn’t here yet, and won’t be until 2030 or later, due in part to the deliberate pace the Danish and European governments have set. Jacob Trøst, Bornholm’s mayor, is preparing his…

16 12 2023 | 02:07

Examining COP28's potential impact on climate change

Once the gavel came down in Dubai, the warm words flowed - but will it really have an impact on climate change? The agreement reached in this glitzy metropolis for the first time nails the role of…