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Climate Forward
November 16, 2025

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A Dead Glacier Is a Loss. A Dying One Is a Threat. →

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A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics →

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COP30

Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip →

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Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

Why Everyone Wants to Meet the ‘World’s Most Boring Man’ →

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Mike Blake/Reuters

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling →

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Fernando Llano/Associated Press

COP30

Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives →

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Kannetha Brown for The New York Times

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He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms →

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COP30

Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil →

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