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PARIS — In the 11th arrondissement, a middle-to-working class neighborhood in the east of Paris, if you walk out your front door, you can arrive at a preschool in one minute. A bookstore in three minutes. A cheese store in four minutes. Baguette for that cheese? Bakery’s across the street. Grocery store and pharmacy, five […]
A team of scientists drove hundreds of miles through the steppes of Kazakhstan in search of what may be one of the largest and most diverse fungi ecosystems on Earth. The Washington Post believes their efforts “could help make the planet more resilient to climate change.” When these underground fungi come together, they form sophisticated […]
Comment on this storyComment After years of promises of new climate funding, the developing world is coming to grips with a disappointing reality: Money still isn’t coming through fast enough to address the mounting challenges of climate change.
Carlos Moreno, a Franco-Colombian urbanist, has been helping spread the idea of 15-minute cities — where people can access key things in their life within a short walk, bike ride or transit ride of their home. But the climate solution is seeing huge challenges, including conspiracy theories. Julia Simon hide caption toggle caption Julia Simon […]
Globally, this year’s hottest summer on record was deadly, and researchers estimate that numbers will continue to rise in the United States. But those deaths aren’t equally distributed, and the disparities result from hundreds of different social, economic, and health factors, which leave Black and Indigenous people most susceptible to extreme heat. A new mapping […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: What I felt was fear,” says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people. “The wildfires made me really anxious about what sort of future I would have.” Claudia, 24, her […]
24-year-old climate activist Vic Barrett has been in the field for a decade. In this interview, he shares what he’s learned and what keeps him going. In 2015, 21 young people filed a landmark climate lawsuit against the federal government, now heading back to court as Juliana v. United States. They argue that the government […]
The 2010 World Fellow discussed the importance of urban leadership in climate issues, anti-racism and effective leadership. Yolanda Wang 3:08 am, Sep 22, 2023 Courtesy of Timothy Stumph, Associate Director World Fellows Program Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol, U.K., spoke at an event for the Yale International . . .
This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. The urgent need to address the conditions that are causing climate change — and to lessen the impact as temperatures climb and environmental catastrophes mount — has drawn widespread engagement from […]
[1/2]United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 19, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Acquire Licensing Rights