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Oil giant Total played down climate threat, study claims

PARIS, France—The French oil and gas major Total deliberately downplayed the threat of global warming from the 1970s onwards, according to research based on...

Planned fossil fuel output shatters 1.5 ºC climate target–UN body

The world’s nations are currently planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil, and gas consistent with limiting global warming to...

COP26 must put an end to empty words

"Stop the blah blah blah, as Greta Thunberg said."   When their representatives affixed their signatures to the Climate Change Accord in Paris in 2015, the...

Asia-Pacific is ‘running out of time’ as it struggles to kick coal addiction

By Sam Reeves and Haeril Halim CILEGON, Indonesia—Smokestacks belch noxious fumes into the air from a massive coal-fired power plant on the Indonesian coast, a...

WHO pens prescription for health at COP26

Millions of lives could be saved by reining in global warming, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging the COP26 summit to take serious...

Grapes of change: Revered French wines adapt to global warming

By Nathalie Alonso with Renaud Lavergne BORDEAUX, France—In France’s storied Bordeaux wine region, an experiment aimed at helping some of the world’s best-loved tipples to...

Doubt clouds COP26 climate summit

Paris—One month out from the COP26 climate summit, world leaders are under unprecedented pressure to decarbonise their economies and chart humanity’s path away from...

Half a degree makes a big difference in a warming world

Half a degree Celsius may not seem like much, but climate experts say a world that has warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius above 19th-century levels...

Biden praised after pledging to double US climate finance contribution

President Joe Biden pledged Tuesday to "double" US contributions towards a goal of mobilizing $100 billion for countries hardest-hit by global warming, a move...

1.5°C warming limit without major action impossible: UN

A new climate change report out Thursday shows that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will be impossible without immediate, large-scale emissions cuts,...

The heat is here

"The IPCC’s latest report tells us about the inevitability of this scale of global warming."   Hotter temperatures will be a certainty in 30-50 years. Unless there...

Record-shattering heatwaves caused by pace of warming: study

Heatwaves that obliterate temperature records as in western Canada last month and Siberia last year are caused by the rapid pace, rather than the...

Key UN climate science talks open amid floods, fires

Nearly 200 nations start online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on...

N. America’s warmest June on record

PARIS—Last month was the hottest June on record in North America, stoked by a deadly heatwave searing across parts of the region, the European...
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