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Climate change

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A truck transports timber across an Amazonian field during a Greenpeace flyover amid the U.N. Climate Change Conference, near Cachoeira do Piria, state of Para, Brazil, on Nov. 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
With more heat and storms, can COP30 boost front-line resilience?
The question of how to make vulnerable communities more resilient in a hotter world is a key debate in the vast compound hosting the COP30 talks.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
COP30 delegates dig into toughest issues as climate talks enter final week
China, India and other developing nations are flexing more muscle, with EU influence hobbled and the U.S. altogether absent.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30, NGO says
The NGO's list names oil and gas giants such as ExxonMobil, Shell and BP, along with Brazil's state-owned Petrobras and China National Petroleum.
People shelter from the sun as they visit the Brandenburg Gate during a heat wave in Berlin in July. An October report in The Lancet scientific journal estimates the yearly number of deaths from heat-related causes worsened by climate change at nearly 550,000.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 14, 2025
Deadly heat worldwide prompts $300 million for climate health research at COP30
By Simon Jessop - Lais Morais - Anna Portella
U.N. agencies in August estimated about half the world’s population, or more than 3.3 billion people, are already struggling with the rising heat.
Fumes are seen rising from the cooling towers of a lignite-fired power station operated by German energy giant RWE near a field Neurath, western Germany, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 13, 2025
World's fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025, study says
By Kelly Macnamara
Curbing warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels — the goal outlined in the Paris Agreement — would now be essentially “impossible.”
A Malian refugee woman at a refugee camp in Bassikounou, Mauritania, on Nov. 4. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, has said that within 15 years the places currently hosting nearly half the world's refugees could be facing extreme exposure to climate-related shocks.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2025
Nearly half of all refugees to face extreme climate hazards by 2040, says UNHCR
By the middle of the century, the hottest 15 refugee camps in the world are also forecast to experience nearly 200 days of hazardous heat stress per year.
A tree burns during a wildfire in Castelo Novo, Fundao area, Portugal, in August.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 7, 2025
How sickly forests are felling Europe's climate ambitions
By Alison Withers — Kate Abnett — Simon Johnson
Numerous governments have warned that Europe's forests are absorbing far less CO2 emissions than hoped.
Oxfam activists wearing big head masks depicting world leaders protest to criticize the inadequacy of decisions made by the world’s largest economies in combating the climate crisis, ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 7, 2025
30 years of climate talks: Progress, pitfalls and a planet in peril
By Valerie Volcovici — Richard Valdmanis
As leaders gather for the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this week, the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan speaks at an event at Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in London, on June 24.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 6, 2025
Climate-friendly mayors find hope in Trump’s election setback
By Peter Millard — Mariana Durao — Beatriz Amat
The results reverberated at a gathering of mayors from around the world in Rio de Janeiro ahead of next week's COP30 United Nations climate talks.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) and Finnish President Alexander Stubb shake hands during a meeting in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / EXPLAINER
Nov 6, 2025
Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30
By Nick Perry
The inauguration of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility is expected Thursday as global leaders meet for this year's U.N. climate negotiations.

A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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