The COP27 meeting next week allows a debt-wracked African country to champion climate needs of poorer nations. But it also puts Egypt under scrutiny.
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In a First, US Pays Tribes to Move Away From Climate Threats
The Interior Department has selected the winners of a new competition to relocate communities vulnerable to climate change. It could become a model for the rest of the country.
As Other Global Crises Collide, Nations Converge to Address Climate Change
The United States will try to reassert global leadership at global talks in Egypt.
Your Friday Briefing: A COP 27 Preview
Plus Benjamin Netanyahu retakes power in Israel and Imran Khan is wounded in Pakistan.
A Warming Siberia, Wracked by Wildfires, Nears a Crucial Threshold
Nearly 23 million acres burned from 1982 to 2020. But almost half of that occurred in 2019 and 2020, and the region may be near a threshold beyond which extreme fires become more common.
Can a Nation Replace Its Oil Wealth With Trees?
Gabon knows its oil won’t last forever, so officials are turning to the Central African nation’s rainforest for revenue — while also promising to preserve it.
Nations Must Increase Funding to Cope With Climate Shocks, U.N. Warns
Failing to help developing nations brace for disruption will lead to increased conflict and widespread suffering, the United Nations wrote in a new report.
As Climate Change Worsens, US Weighs Which Communities to Save
Native American tribes are competing for the first federal grants designed to help move communities away from high water and other dangers posed by climate change.
What Lula’s Victory in Brazil Means for Climate
The president-elect once helped slash deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest. He says he wants to do it again.
Aging Infrastructure May Create Higher Flood Risk in L.A., Study Finds
Between 197,000 and 874,000 city residents could experience a foot of flooding during an extreme storm, scientists found. Most of them don’t live in beachfront mansions.