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Nobel Peace Prize to activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
Human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a strong rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine has ruptured decades...
U.N. report reveals “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, warns of inaction
Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning...
U.S.: Swift, severe response if Russia sends troops to Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a “swift, severe” response from the United States and its allies if Russia sends any military forces into...
China, US pledge to increase cooperation at UN climate talks
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The world’s top carbon polluters, China and the United States, agreed Wednesday to increase their cooperation and speed up action to rein in climate-damaging emissions, signaling...
Frustrations grow as marchers demand faster climate action
Tens of thousands of climate activists marched Saturday through the Scottish city hosting the U.N. climate summit, physically close to the global negotiators inside but separated by a vast gulf...
Clean up your mess, young people tell climate talks
The generation of young people who will inherit a warmer future is telling the generation that caused carbon pollution to clean up its mess.
Over 100 countries vow to end deforestation at climate talks
More than 100 countries pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has...
鈥楲ast, best hope:鈥� Crucial climate summit opens in Glasgow
The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow opened Sunday with appeals for action and prayers, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle...
UN and U.S. officials urge action to avert climate disaster
The U.N.'s top human rights official and U.S. President Joe Biden's climate envoy called Thursday for countries to step up the fight against global warming, describing it as an issue...
Nobel Prize for chemistry honors “greener” way to build molecules
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for finding an 鈥渋ngenious鈥� and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make everything from medicines to...