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Climate change

Whales sense their surroundings largely through sound and create complex vocalizations, or songs, when they’re searching for mates and food.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Mar 22, 2025

Why we should worry when whales stop singing

By Todd Woody

A new study has found that whale songs can act as a barometer for the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

Ice is seen on the Pastoruri glacier in the Peruvian Andes, Peru, in May 2024.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Mar 21, 2025

World's glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb, U.N. says

By Alexander Villegas

Glaciers are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record.

A flooded road in the Philippines following heavy rain in July 2024

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Mar 19, 2025

Extreme weather in 2024 forced most people to flee in 16 years

By Aaron Clark

The climate damages also exacerbated a food crisis in more than a dozen countries, according to a report.

Saul Luciano Lliuya in his home in Huaraz, Peru, on March 2. Lliuya is pursuing a lawsuit against German energy utility RWE, whose emissions he says have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers, swelling a lake above his hometown to dangerous levels.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Mar 18, 2025

Facing glacial melt-water flood risk, Peruvian farmer tests global climate law

By Alexander Villegas, Riham Alkousaa and Alfredo Galarza

Lawyers in the case say German energy firm RWE is responsible for 0.5% of global emissions, so should pay 0.5% of the costs for a local $3.5 million flood defense project.

While climate demonstrations around the world often draw thousands of participants, in Japan such demonstrations rarely break the 100-person barrier.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Mar 16, 2025

Japan’s youth climate activists still searching for a breakthrough

By Eric Margolis

With Japan endorsing climate targets criticized as unambitious, activists are looking to education and more tailored strategies to make an impact.

The Stratos Direct Air Capture Facility, a joint venture between Occidental Petroleum and asset manager BlackRock, in Ector County, Texas, last July.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / FOCUS

Mar 16, 2025

Carbon capture industry tweaks message for the Trump era

By John BIERS

The lobbying strategy is to frame CCS as "an economic competitiveness and American leadership issue."

Horses attempt to graze on a hill covered with snow in Argalant, in central Mongolia's Tov province. The vast country is one of the most affected by climate change, by some counts warming three times faster than the global average.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Mar 13, 2025

On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brink

By Rebecca Bailey

The vast country is one of the most affected by climate change, by some counts warming three times faster than the global average.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.

Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it

By Alex K.T. Martin

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