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An Egyptian boy reads a note posted on an artificial tree set up for people to hang a note saying what promise they will make to help fight climate change, in the Green Zone of the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

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Despair, lack of progress at climate talks, yet hope blooms
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Sat,11/19/22-2:21AM , 222 Reads
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — It’s a desert, where little grows. It’s a climate conference, where water is scarce inside buildings and out, lines are long, tempers are short, meetings go late and above all progress comes in one-drop drips.

Yet hope springs forth in the strangest places.
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Maisa Rojas, minister of environment of Chile, speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Women are controlling negotiations about the thorniest topic in the United Nations climate talks in Egypt. The issue is of reparations for climate disasters and payments from polluting nations to damaged countries. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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Women lead climate talks' toughest topic: reparations
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,11/17/22-1:03AM , 244 Reads
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except when it comes to global warming's thorniest diplomatic issue this year — reparations for climate disasters.
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A boy takes in the view of the Los Angeles skyline from the Griffith Park Observatory Trails Peak in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. The 8 billionth baby on Earth is about to be born on a planet that is getting hotter. But experts in climate science and population both say the two issues aren't quite as connected as they seem. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is key to climate
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Tue,11/15/22-1:08AM , 207 Reads
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world is getting hotter and more crowded and the two issues are connected, but not quite as much as people might think, experts say.
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The LNG Canada industrial energy project is under construction in Kitimat, British Columbia, Sept. 28, 2022. The war-inspired natural gas boom is undermining already insufficient efforts to limit future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree, according to a new report released Thursday, Nov. 10, by Climate Action Tracker. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

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Report: War-triggered gas boom threatens world climate goal
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,11/10/22-4:41AM , 333 Reads
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The war-inspired natural gas boom is undermining already insufficient efforts to limit future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree, a new report says.
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