By Ella Nilsen and Jen Christensen, CNN

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Updated 9:29 AM EDT, Thu April 25, 2024

Steam rises from the Miller coal-fired power plant in Adamsville, Alabama, in 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN — 

The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a highly anticipated suite of rules to cut hazardous, planet-warming pollution generated by power plants in one of its most significant environment and climate actions to-date.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules will compel coal and new natural gas power plants to either cut or capture 90% of their climate pollution by 2032. The rules are expected to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from the sector by 75% compared to its peak in 2005. Tiếp tục đọc “Biden administration finalizes new rules for power plants in one of its most significant climate actions to-date” →

Published: April 19, 2024 5.21pm BST, The Conversation

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1. Richard WashingtonProfessor of Climate Science, University of Oxford

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Some years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on a sultry runway in a deserted airport near the South Africa-Mozambique border. The humidity was there to taste – the air thick with it.

Tiếp tục đọc “Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made” →

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN

Published 2:00 PM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024

[TĐH: Vietnam has the same problems as those of China]

Shanghai is one of the coastal cities significantly exposed to both land subsidence and projected sea level rise. Roughly a quarter of the country’s coasts will be lower than sea level, according to new research. AFP/Getty ImagesCNN — 

Land is sinking underneath millions of peoples’ feet in China’s major cities due to human activities, putting the country’s coastal areas more at risk of flooding and rising sea levels, new research shows.

Nearly half of China’s urban areas comprising 29% of the country’s population are sinking faster than 3 millimeters (about 0.12 inches) per year, according to the study published Thursday in the journal Science. That’s 270 million people living on sinking land.

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Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent.

BY MOLLY QUELL AND RAF CASERT Updated 9:06 AM GMT+7, April 10, 2024

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent.

Tiếp tục đọc “Verdict saying Switzerland violated rights by failing on climate action could ripple across Europe” →

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Urgent action is needed to breath new life into Cửa Vạn and Vung Viêng fishing villages.

A view of conservation area of Vung Viêng fishing village in Hạ Long Bay. VNA/VNS Photo

QUẢNG NINH – Cửa Vạn and Vung Viêng, two renowned fishing villages located in Hạ Long Bay in northern Quảng Ninh Province, are facing severe deterioration, with some structures slowly sinking into the sea.

Tiếp tục đọc “Quảng Ninh makes effort to preserve old fishing villages in Hạ Long Bay” →