Chinese Car Giants Rush Into Brazil With Dreams of Dominating a Continent

We did not receive permission to go inside the BYD plant but we did go inside the Great Wall Motors factory in Brazil. Story and video here:
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Wilderness

Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World

Warming. Sea level rise. Shipping lanes.

What happens in Greenland doesn’t stay in Greenland.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Northwest floods offer sneak peek of hotter climate's toll “The science is clear that floods are going to become larger and more frequent in the future,” Washington State Climatologist Guillaume Mauger said.

Scientists expect atmospheric rivers to grow more powerful, arrive more frequently, and last longer as the earth’s climate keeps warming.
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The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:

Chocolate Grows Up in the Land of Its Birth: the Amazon

This is what you call a delicious reporting trip:

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There’s a New Effort on the Runway to Raise Climate Funds

1000% www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c...

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

Indigenous people are demanding land rights not just as a restoration of their right to manage their territories but also as a climate and nature fix.

How will countries respond, not just during COP30 but beyond?

Watch this space.

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Video: What the U.S. Absence at COP30 Tells Us World leaders are meeting at the COP30 this week to discuss climate. The U.S. was not part of this meeting. Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, discusses what this absence means.

In which @kbennhold.bsky.social is calm and elegant and I am shouting at the cellphone cam and my glasses keep sliding off my nose

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...and yes, the average global temperature is undeniably going up, mainly from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

Really bad news: Forests are beginning to lose their superpower

Electric cars are becoming normal...except not so much in the U.S.

Take a look at this hockey stick of solar power.

10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

10 years after the Paris climate pact, there's some good-ish news.

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We did ,shortly after the piece posted

Prince William urges the world to listen to the world's Indigenous people. "We are reminded that true climate leadership is listening to those who are true stewards of nature."

China's Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang casts China as the antidote to the U.S.: a country that keeps its promises.

"China is willing to accelerate a green transition in all areas of economic and social development.”

Pokes at US trade restrictions

Brazil's President Lula rightly say diplomatic saloons are far from the lives of everyday suffering.

Lula casts himself as an ally of the Amazon but has given his nod to oil drilling in the Amazon

UN SecGen Antonio Guterres delivers his signature scold: "Too many corporations are making record profits from climate devastation. Too many leaders remain captive to fossil fuel interests."

At the same time investment in renewables was bigger than in coal, oil, gas.

I'm at #COP30 in Brazil

Chair of @wmo-global.bsky.social opens the conference with dire stats about rising temps (1.4 C above preindustrial levels) and record concentration of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

“Let COP30 be remebered when the world hcanged course, with the Amazon as its witness”

Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests

Central to Brazil’s COP30 agenda: money for countries to protect their standing forests.

Big challenge: attracting investors to pony up $100 billion

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/c...

Natural gas prices are low, but your monthly gas bill is up. Here's why Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.

Natural gas prices are relatively low, thanks to a frac'ing-fueled drilling boom... So why are gas utility prices reaching record highs? Answers are in my @npr.org Climate Desk story: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

H/t @rabihalameddine.bsky.social

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico

How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Rob Jetten looks on course to be the next Dutch prime minister.

Quick reminder that he was once the nation's climate and energy minister:

"I work every day to put the Netherlands on course towards a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest."

Quite the contrast with Geert Wilders...

2X increase in the most extreme hurrucanes!
Looking at every Cat 4 & 5 in the Atlantic since 1980 (reliable records/ data gathering) I broke the record into 2 equal parts.
1980-2002 and 2003-2025
The most recent period has more than double the number of most intense hurricanes in the Atlantic!…
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As China and U.S. Split Over Energy, Korea Is Stuck in the Middle

Donald Trump is meeting Xi Jinping in South Korea.

There's a lot at stake for a lot of countries.

Not least the host country -- South Korea.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

Melissa becomes third Category 5 hurricane of the extraordinary 2025 season Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.

This is so very, very bad. And yes, climate change plays a role. bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/10/meli...