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When climate change is discussed, whether at UN climate summits, in company boardrooms or in the media, the focus is often on mitigation (cutting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero). Adaptation, the practical steps to prepare for the consequences of a changing climate, receives far less attention in the…

Ryan Cornelius was arrested in 2008 over a bank loan and will be 84 years old when he is due to be released

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Many of the activists, scientists and government leaders at United Nations climate talks underway in Brazil have a beef: They want more to be done to transform the world’s food system

The president of the United Nations General Assembly says climate change is the biggest threat to world peace

Israel’s prime minister has met with top security officials to assess a rising tide of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank

Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department says

Three representatives of developing countries speak candidly about meetings behind closed doors in Belém

Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic have reached record levels last year amid the conflict in Gaza

French officials previously raised concerns that the platform’s algorithm could be used for foreign interference

Brazil has offered several texts for this year’s last day of the U.N. climate talks but what was supposed to be nearly final proposals on key contentious issues failed to explicitly mention fossil fuels — the cause of global warming