LoginThe Climate Fix: Africa’s Solar Revolution
In announcing a $35 billion program to bring inexpensive solar power to some 300 million Africans, officials left out two words: climate change.
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Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
A satellite image of a bomb cyclone over the North American Pacific Coast last month.
What Can the World’s Top Court Do About Climate Change?
The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, is beginning landmark hearings on global warming. Here’s a guide.
Mexico’s Valle de Bravo reservoir this year. The court has been asked what obligations governments have to protect the world’s climate system.
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Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding
More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is among the earliest cemeteries in the country to be modeled after rural landscapes, and to serve as an urban park.
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The U.S. Is Building an Early Warning System to Detect Geoengineering
Balloon launches from around the world are part of a new kind of global alarm system: One that can detect if another country tries to dim the sun.
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As Plastic Talks Continue, a Reminder of What We’re All Exposed To
As international talks continue this week, a dozen U.N. officials reveal scientists tracked their exposure to many chemicals found in plastics.
Scientists can use silicone wrist bands to measure a person’s exposure to chemicals.
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Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”
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A Landscape Architect Fights Climate Change
Martha Schwartz Partners works around the globe to take on pollution and warming of the planet.
Meeting the Challenge of Transportation and Climate
For Claudia Adriazola-Steil, the issue of safety, and the goal of lowering emissions and improving access, is deeply personal.
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger Seeks Climate Policy That Works With the Land
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger works to empower Indigenous peoples to lead the way on climate justice and decolonize environmental policy.
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, executive director and co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action, speaking at the COP26 climate summit in 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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An Indigenous Woman Helps Her People Address Climate Change
Having grown up in Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim has taken on the cause of negotiating for her community at the international level.
In October, flooding in N’Djamena, the Chad capital. Climate change was believed to have contributed to torrential downpours.
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Helena Norberg-Hodge Wants a Local Focus to Have a Global Effect
Helena Norberg-Hodge founded Local Futures with a mission of strengthening local economies and ending the most wasteful aspects of the global trade system.
Kate Raworth Looked Beyond G.D.P. to Create ‘Doughnut Economics’
With “Doughnut Economics,” Kate Raworth looks instead at planetary well-being.
Kate Raworth speaking in London in 2022. She published her book “Doughnut Economics” in 2017.
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Chef Nadia Sammut Aims to Educate About How Food Affects the Earth
Through her restaurant in France and her academy, Nadia Sammut aims to teach people about how their food choices can harm — or help — the planet.
The chef Nadia Sammut at work during a festival in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France, in 2022. She is the chef of La Fenière, a Michelin-star gluten-free restaurant in Provence.
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A German Company Provides Fuel Cells to Power Remote Areas
Sunaina Sinha Haldea heads the board of SFC Energy AG, whose fuel cells are helping to provide continuous and safer power to remote areas.
Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try.
Cows and pigs produce a large share of planet-warming methane. A new tax is part of a plan to clean that up.
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Mette Lykke Helps Keep Food Out of the Trash in 19 Countries
Mette Lykke leads Too Good to Go, which operates in 19 countries to reduce waste and make surplus food accessible.
One of three sculptures in a 2021 installation in London by Too Good to Go that called for action on food waste in Britain.
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Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
A satellite image of a bomb cyclone over the North American Pacific Coast last month.
© CIRA/NOAA, via Reuters
Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
A satellite image of a bomb cyclone over the North American Pacific Coast last month.
© CIRA/NOAA, via Reuters
