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In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at what species might be hiding in all those Christmas trees and examine how electric two- and three-wheeled vehicles are helping reduce global oil consumption.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday praised the deal signed at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai, as an important step toward reaching climate goals.

But critics say the food systems roadmap doesn’t go far enough in tackling ‘the massive power inequalities imposed by the handful of companies that define what we grow and eat’.

Three women of Caribbean descent have been named to the 2023 Forbes magazine list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

At COP28, climate activists managed to get much stronger wording about global warming. But that’s all it is: words.

And while batteries are key to transitioning to renewable energy, they’re mostly at odds with a more sustainable world.

Undeterred by wars at home, delegations from Ukraine and the Palestinian territories are active at COP28, determined to call attention not only to the environmental threats facing their homelands but also to emphasize their places in the global community. Ukraine, attending its second COP international conference, is using its pavilion in Dubai to highlight the…

Nearly 200 countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, but the U.S. and others are actually expanding oil and gas exploration while refusing to finance the transition for poorer countries.

BEKASI, Indonesia--Indonesian maggot farmer Rendria Labde spoils his black soldier flies with tasty treats and no wonder: to him, they are warriors fighting an urgent battle against the mounds of food waste threatening to spill over from Jakarta’s landfill.

On Wednesday morning in Dubai, as U.N. climate talks stretched well into overtime, COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber left no room for comments as he rammed through the final version of a text widely understood as the main prize of this year’s negotiations. The Global Stocktake—a framework for meeting the audacious goals of the Paris Agreement—includes two little words that never appeared in that prior document: fossil fuels.Ironically, some of the countries that were most adam...