Environment

Pape Dieye in Guet N'dar, Senegal on October 7.

People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. He keeps refusing

4:13pm November 14, 2022

Years of captaining a boat have shaped Pape Dieye's calm and reassuring presence in Senegal. These qualities have also caught the eye of people hoping to make the dangerous journey to Europe.

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Guilford County asks residents' permission to conduct PFAS testing

3:13pm November 14, 2022

by April Laissle

Guilford County is asking certain homeowners for permission to test their well water for so-called forever chemicals, also known as PFAS.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is a founding member of the nonprofit that made a tool to track big polluters.

Al Gore helped launch a global emissions tracker that keeps big polluters honest

5:17am November 14, 2022

by Juliana Kim

The online tool tracks power plants, oil refineries, large ships and other sources of greenhouse gases. Gore plans to expand the tracker to observe every major source of emissions.

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Signs like this one, spotted October 26, 2022, are all over northern Gaston County, North Carolina, near where Piedmont Lithium wants to build a 1500-acre lithium mining and processing operation.

A proposed lithium mine presents a climate versus environment conflict

5:02am November 12, 2022

by David Boraks

The U.S. wants to mine lithium for electric vehicle batteries to meet climate change goals. But residents near a proposed open-pit mine object.

President Joe Biden arrives to speak at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Here's what happened on Friday at the U.N.'s COP27 climate talks

4:54pm November 11, 2022

President Biden touted American progress reining in emissions and said he intends to push for more money for developing countries. Here's what happened at COP27 today.

Mamadou Thiam in Saint-Louis, Senegal on October 5.

Saint-Louis is being swallowed by the sea. Residents are bracing for a new reality

4:21pm November 11, 2022

The problem is as simple as it is devastating: the Atlantic Ocean is expanding into Senegal, and Saint-Louis is ground zero. Every year, the island loses a little bit of land to the sea.

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A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen in August 2021 on a well pad near Watford City, N.D.

Environment

Biden tightens methane emissions rules, even as the U.S. pushes for more oil drilling

11:53am November 11, 2022

by The Associated Press

Oil and gas production is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and is a key target for the Biden administration as it seeks to combat climate change.

Workers in Germany construct a new pipeline for transporting natural gas imports from a nearby liquified natural gas facility. European countries are seeking new sources of natural gas, as they wean themselves off imports from Russia.

Environment

Are climate change emissions finally going down? Definitely not

5:01am November 11, 2022

by Lauren Sommer

World leaders are discussing how to get climate change under control, but new reports show the post-pandemic rebound and war in Ukraine are driving emissions even higher.

Workers at a coal mine in Ukraine start their shifts. Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted global supplies of fossil fuels and led to more reliance on coal for electricity in some countries.

Here's what happened on Day 5 of the U.N.'s COP27 climate talks

6:25pm November 10, 2022

Russia's war in Ukraine also threatens to wreck climate goals, members of Congress arrive, and an actor changes his name to draw attention to global warming

Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks during the TRACE Greenhouse Gas Inventory launch at the plenary hall during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27.

Here's what happened on day 4 of the U.N.'s COP27 climate talks

5:38pm November 09, 2022

A U.S. funding plan for lower-income countries faced criticism and a big map of who is releasing greenhouse gasses was released. Here's what happened at COP27 today.