UN photo The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a substantial funding initiative aimed at bolstering climate resilience across the United States. With $1.8 billion at its disposal, this effort will mitigate the impacts of climate change and increasingly severe weather events. Two Key Programs Building Resilient Infrastructure […] Click here to view original […]

American bison were hunted almost to extinction by European settlers. Now making a comeback, they could help reverse damage to prairies from decades of poor management. I It takes mettle to live on Montana’s shortgrass prairie. It’s dry, windy and a long way from anywhere. In summer, temperatures can […] Click here to view original

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Next month, New Mexico regulators will consider joining the latest version of Advanced Clean Cars, a program designed to slash pollution by requiring automakers to deliver an increasing number of new zero emission vehicles for sale in the state starting in model year 2027. If New Mexico joins Advanced […] Click here to view original

Climate change threatens to unravel decades of progress on improving human health through extreme heat, air pollution, disruption of food systems and the spread of disease, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said. These effects will be strongest in Africa, where there is less monitoring of approaching extremes and […] Click here to view original

At COP28, chances are not high that the heads of state and government would manage this time to agree on a text to set a timeline for phasing out fossil fuels. A pledge to triple renewables capacity by 2030 has a better chance of passing the COP28 negotiations than […] Click here to view original