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Cant tell your carbon sinks from your carbon tax? Looking for a refresher on the Paris Agreement? Just in time for COP28, weve compiled dozens of climate terms and resources to help you keep it all straight.

The COP28 begins on Thursday in Dubai and is meant to last 13 days, but climate negotiations often run past their official deadlines as countries haggle until the last minute to find a consensus.

Even though sound waste management is a vital tool in fighting the tripe planetary crisis, it is generally overlooked in the global climate strategy. But…

The extent of coastal flooding has increased over the past 20 years as a result of sea level rise, meaning 14 million more people worldwide now live in coastal communities with a 1-in-20 annual chance of flooding, new data reveals. Continuing our current course of global greenhouse gas emissions (SSP2-4.5) is projected by the end of the century to expand this 1-in-20 floodplain to areas today populated by nearly 73 million people.

Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are at the forefront, projected to lose significant land and critical infrastructure to permanent inundation.

The world is on track to exceed 2°C warming within the next five years, with dire consequences for polar ice, mountain glaciers and permafrost – and human society.

Why people take to the streets to march against global heating is relatively well documented. But it’s unclear why certain tactics work better than others in reaching the public and policymakers. Why people take to the streets to march against global heating is relatively well documented. But it’s unclear why certain tactics work better than others in reaching the public and policymakers.

NEW YORK, CMC – A new report is warning that several Caribbean countries including Jamaica without shoreline defences could permanently lose five per cent or more of their cities to sea level rises by the end of the century. It cited Kingston...

What explains the crazy Colorado and Denver weather?

Faith communities can use their influence and large following to fight climate change.