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 in expectations, with frustrated marchers increasingly dismissive of the talks and demanding immediate action instead to slow global warming.
Como Zoo's new polar bear tests tracking device developed by 3M scientists
Kulu is helping scientists keep track of his endangered relatives.
Pompeii dig yields rare window on daily life of enslaved
Archeologists in Pompeii excavating a villa amid the ruins of the 79 A.D. volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient city have discovered a cramped dormitory and storage room that offers "a very rare insight into the daily life of slaves," officials said Saturday.
Protesters march in Glasgow as climate talks continue
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Glasgow for a second day on Saturday to demand leaders move faster to cut fossil fuels.
Business
Glasgow climate negotiators seek to resolve 4 key challenges
As this year's U.N. climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Boosted by a few high-profile announcements at the start of the meeting, delegates are upbeat about the prospects for tangible progress in the fight against global warming.
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Variety
Saving the Amazon, one wooden spoon at a time
Village hosts a wood shop where residents hope to earn a sustainable living.
World
Inside and outside climate talks, youths urge faster action
Young people both inside and outside of the United Nations climate talks are telling world leaders to hurry up and get it done, that concrete measures to avoid catastrophic warming can't wait.
Nation
End of daylight saving time means winter is on the horizon
Winter is on the horizon again with the end of daylight saving time coming Sunday across most of the United States.
World
Globe bounces back to nearly 2019 carbon pollution levels
The dramatic drop in carbon dioxide emissions from the pandemic lockdown has pretty much disappeared in a puff of coal-fired smoke, much of it from China, a new scientific study found.
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Minnesotans join push for change at U.N. climate summit
Panels broadcast from Glasgow highlight Minnesota climate efforts.
World
Now the real negotiations begin at UN climate conference
The princes, presidents and prime ministers have left, and now the real mask-to-mask climate negotiations start.
Sports
UN climate conference urges sports bodies to hit green goals
The United Nations climate conference on Wednesday urged sports organizations and teams worldwide to meet the environmental targets they signed up to.
Business
Investors bet big on climate fight but motives questioned
Governments and big investors announced fresh plans Wednesday to pour trillions of dollars into curbing global warming, reflecting the financial world's growing embrace of efforts to fight climate change as both a business necessity and opportunity.
Variety
Feeling SAD? Here's how to fend off the winter blues
As the days get shorter and the nights start earlier, take these steps to help prevent seasonal affective disorder.
Business
US says oil, gas sales damage climate — but won't stop them
The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department's conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, according to government documents.
Nation
Hope after wildfire: Tiny sequoias could grow into giants
Ashtyn Perry was barely as tall as the shovel she stomped into barren ground where a wildfire last year ravaged the California mountain community of Sequoia Crest and destroyed dozens of its signature behemoth trees.
Business
Leaders vow to protect forests, plug methane leaks at COP26
World leaders promised to protect Earth's forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic global warming.
Business
Biden's climate plan aims to reduce methane emissions
The Biden administration on Tuesday launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming and packs a stronger short-term punch than even carbon dioxide.
Politics
'Adapt or die:' Africa presses for more climate support
African leaders and campaigners are pressing the international community to do more to help poorer and vulnerable nations adapt to climate change, seizing on evidence showing the continent to be the most endangered by the effects of global warming.
Business
Antarctica gets a Glasgow Glacier ahead of climate summit
Britain is naming a thinning Antarctic ice mass the Glasgow Glacier, to symbolize the vast implications for the world of a climate conference that starts Sunday in the Scottish city.
Business
Unhappy Halloween: Gaming platform Roblox crashes
To the dismay of millions of children -- and the parents trying to keep them busy and cope with their anguish -- the popular gaming platform Roblox crashed Friday, and the company was still trying to restore service Saturday.
Nation
Sun's 'X-class solar flare' may cause star gazers to see Northern Lights
A fireworks show that has nothing to do with the Fourth of July and everything to do with the cosmos is poised to be visible across the northern United States and Europe just in time for Halloween.