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Greenland lost another 350 trillion pounds (158.7 billion metric tons) of mass from its ice sheet, extending a trend of losing land ice since 1998, report said.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The COP28 presidency released on Wednesday a proposed text for a final climate deal that would for the first time push nations to "t...

A standoff between countries that want a dramatic phase-out of planet-warming fossil fuels and those that dont pushed a critical climate summit officially into overtime Tuesday. Organizers were about to float another try at compromise. The United Nations-led summit known as COP28 was supposed to end Tuesday afternoon after nearly two weeks of speeches, demonstrations and negotiations. But the climate talks almost always run long, and negotiators were still meeting late Tuesday as workers nearby ...

Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels. DW has the latest.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A standoff between countries that want a dramatic phase-out of planet-warming fossil fuels and those that don’t pushed a critical climate summit officially into overtime

This marks a step back from the earlier proposal of a phase-out of fossil fuels that drew sharp criticism from many countries in the Global South and oil-reliant economies like Saudi Arabia.

A somewhat stronger and revamped proposal that calls for an eventual end to fossil fuel use was presented early Wednesday to negotiators at the United...

Instead of the phrase "phase out" the proposal discussed "transitioning away" from fossil fuels, beginning this decade.

DUBAI--A new compromise floated early Wednesday at United Nations COP28 climate talks called for the world to eventually wean itself off planet-warming fossil fuels in a global rallying cry stronger than proposed days earlier, but with loopholes that upset critics.

Dubai: Nearly 200 nations meeting in Dubai on Wednesday approved a first ever call for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, the top culprit...