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After Egyptian farmer Muhammad El-Desouki lost more than half of his tomato crop to a long heatwave, he no longer thinks about climate change as a future problem.
El-Desouki’s farm lies north of Cairo, in Menoufia, a governorate that...
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Written by: Kimberly White
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The Biden administration announced plans to open up millions of acres for oil and gas...
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Written by: Ming Chun Tang
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But that all changed in April, when...
Written by: Kimberly White
The United States has pledged to double its international climate finance contribution.
The U.S. initially committed to a contribution of $5.7 billion annually at President Biden's Leaders Summit on Climate in April. Environmentalists criticized the contribution as...
Written by: Kimberly White
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