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From upping EPA's budget to funding global climate programs, Biden's budget proposal contains more taxpayer funding for his green agenda.

President Joe Biden has requested billions of taxpayer dollars to fund international climate programs.

The president's budget plan would also make the spending mandatory.

Officials overseeing the Brazilian Amazon registered almost 3,000 fires during February, marking a new record for the South American country.

Climate finance covers a wide range of activities, from investing in renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, to building seawalls and early warning systems in vulnerable communities.

They replaced Wesley Batista Filho and Joanita Maestri Karoleski.

The United States has long taken for granted the security and effectiveness of shipping lanes. Americans count on them to fill store shelves with products around the world, while not giving how they get there a second thought. Now security concerns in the Red Sea and drought induced capacity constraints limiting the Panama Canal are forcing shippers to reroute, resulting in delays and higher shipping costs. This occurs in the backdrop of tensions in the Turkish Straits and the South China Sea wi...

Generations of women of the Amazon and Cerrado have split the coconuts of the babaçu tree for the oil. As the forests are cleared and electric fences put up, they must fight to secure rights to their beloved trees Photographs by Kristin Bethge for the Guardian

Climate change made last year’s agricultural drought in the Amazon around 30 times more likely to occur, according to a new rapid attribution study.

With reduced support in Brazil’s Congress following the 2022 elections, the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been unable to prevent the passage of bills dismantling environmental safeguards in favor of agribusiness interests.