The UN climate summit just barely avoided ending in deadlock, and the final compromise left big doubts over the prospect for new efforts to curb …
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2022: Year in Climate Crisis
You could have visited just about any spot on the map and witnessed the carnage: deadly flooding, hurricane-ravaged coastlines, drought unlike any living person has seen. Here’s how climate change continued to create chaos across the globe, and what agencies around the world vowed to do about it.
Small steps forward amid worsening storms and droughts
Several US agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), will see a significant …
How would you characterize 2022? Was it a year of transformation? A year of struggle? I always reach the end of the year wishing more had happened to …
The social worker Quratulain Bakhteari is on a lonely mission to help flood survivors in the province of Balochistan. The teen-age girl warned the men, but they ignored her. “When it started raining, I told the men in our village this isn’t normal,” Maria said to me, as we stood on a muddy …
People in Jackson, Mississippi keep losing access to drinking water. The EPA has opened a civil rights investigation in the predominantly Black …
CNN — Extreme weather disasters so far this year have caused $115 billion in insured losses around the globe, with Hurricane Ian inflicting the largest insured loss of roughly $50 to 65 billion, new data from reinsurance company Swiss Re shows. The company’s preliminary analysis found that 2022 was …
US President Joe Biden's administration will help fund the move of three tribal communities facing urgent threats from climate change. The three tribes will receive $75m (£62m) divided equally between them, Mr Biden announced on Wednesday. All are located along coastal areas and rivers in the states …
Even with Republicans controlling the House, Democrats retained enough control at the federal level to defend the Inflation Reduction Act while making inroads in crucial local elections. The midterm elections may have resulted in a divided Congress, but environmentalists still saw plenty to …
Further Reading on the Year in Climate Change
