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Activist Luisa Neubauer, of Germany, center, participates in a demonstration against fossil fuels at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Frustration grows at fossil fuel influence and structure of UN climate talks. Some call for reform

Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry influence at these climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, called COP29.

A group of tailors work in a small garage using electric sewing machines to stitch office uniforms and bags at the campus of the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, a nongovernmental organization that works to help poor and Indigenous communities, in Kenchanahalli, India, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Clean energy could create millions of tons of waste in India. Some are working to avoid that

As clean energy infrastructure like solar panels and electric car batteries becomes more common in India, some small businesses are working to recycle them when they reach the end of their lifespan, dismantling panels to sell individual components and using old EV batteries’ remaining power to provi

Activists participate in a demonstration calling for climate finance during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Earth’s projected warming hasn’t improved for 3 years. UN climate talks are still pushing

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get — even as countries gather for another round of talks to curb warming, according to an analysis Thursday.

Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh's interim government speaks to members of the media at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Bangladesh leader Muhammad Yunus slams rich nations for burning up the planet at UN climate talks

Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus said that leaders shouldn’t be negotiating at United Nations climate talks this year, with countries responsible for warming up the planet instead just providing the funds to deal with the global crisis.

People walk through the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change

The United Nations’ annual climate conference continued Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small. For many of them, it’s a chance to bear witness to the misery their countries have endured from climate-driven weather extremes.

A pumpjack operates at a drilling site in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

For nearly a decade, climate talks have been hashing out so-called Article 6. But what is it?

Known as Article 6, it was set up as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement to help nations work together to reduce climate-causing pollution. Part of that was a system of carbon credits, allowing nations to put planet-warming gasses in the air if they offset emissions elsewhere.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, Antonio Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan president and Turkey President Recep Tayyip front center, pose with others for a group photo at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Earth’s biggest polluters aren’t sending leaders to UN climate talks in a year of weather extremes

World leaders are converging Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference in Azerbaijan. The climate talks often have the star power of a soccer World Cup, but many big names and powerful countries are noticeably absent.

Matiul Haq Khalis, head of the National Environmental Protection Agency from Afghanistan, speaks to members of the media at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Afghanistan attends U.N. climate talks for first time since Taliban return to power

Afghanistan’s first delegation at United Nations climate talks since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 has arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan.

People walk outside the venue for the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Climate talks open with calls for a path away from the ‘road to ruin.’ But the real focus is money

In Baku, Azerbaijan the two-week United Nations climate negotiations, called COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how many hundreds of billions — or even trillions — of dollars a year will flow from rich nations to poor to try to curb and adapt to climate change.

P. Ravinder Reddy, a farmer, applies fungicide to peanut seeds before sowing in Rayanpet village of Telangana state, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

In India, warming climate pressures scientists to keep developing tougher seeds

India is one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of wheat and rice, but extreme weather is taking a toll on these vital crops.

Rescuers on their second day of mission following Tuesday’s landslides recover the body of a victim at Chooralmala, Wayanad district, Kerala state, India, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Study finds rains that led to deadly Indian landslides were made worse by climate change

The heavy rains that resulted in landslides killing hundreds in southern India last month were made worse by human-caused climate change. That’s according to a rapid analysis released by climate scientists Tuesday.

FILE - A woman works at a coal depot in Ahmedabad, India, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

India has pushed hard for solar. But as its billions demand more power, coal always gets the call

India has been significantly increasing its renewable energy capacity in recent years, but when demand for electricity surges, it still goes back to its most trusted source of power. That’s coal.

Children cool themselves off in a public fountain in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 25, 2024. A heat wave warning was issued in Seoul as temperatures soared 33 degrees Celsius (91.4 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

UN asks nations to better prepare, cool the vulnerable as ‘extreme heat epidemic’ breaks records

The United Nations is calling for a flurry of efforts to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures in what it calls an extreme heat epidemic.

The setting sun illuminates the clouds over the Rocky Mountains after a third straight day of record-breaking heat Sunday, July 14, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Monday breaks the record for the hottest day ever on Earth

Climate scientists say the record for the hottest day globally has been broken for the second consecutive day and that the worldwide temperature could rise yet more this week.

A worker walks in front of the 500-kilowatt battery energy storage system inside the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages factory in Thiruvallur district, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

India has ramped up its wind and solar energy. It now needs to expand places to store it

India’s lithium ion battery storage industry — which can store electricity generated by wind turbines or solar panels for when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing — makes up just 0.1% of global battery storage.

FILE - A father tries to calm his daughter suffering from a heat-related ailment as she is brought to the government district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh state, India, June 19, 2023. The official number of heat deaths listed in government reports barely scratches the surface of the true toll and that's affecting future preparations for similar swelters, according to public health experts. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat waves

Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year left hundreds dead or ill.

Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Shekh and his family are among millions of people who scratch out a living searching through India's waste — and climate change is making a hazardous job more dangerous than ever. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat

As many as 4 million people in India scratch out a living searching through landfills for anything they can sell. These waste pickers endure a miserable job that is growing more dangerous as climate change leads to rising heat.

FILE - A farmer walks as he works in a paddy field on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, July 30, 2021. Human-caused climate change is making rainfall more unpredictable and erratic, which makes it difficult for farmers to plant, grow and harvest crops on their rain-fed fields. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

Climate change makes India’s monsoons erratic. Can farmers still find a way to prosper?

Most of India’s 120 million farmers depend on rain from monsoons for a good harvest. India typically has two monsoons: one from June to September, and another from October to December.

Local tourists cover their heads to shield from the heat as they buy drinking water bottles, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. A monthslong heat wave across swathes of India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the last three and a half months, a Health Ministry official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Extreme heat in India has killed more than 100 people in the past three and a half months

Data from India’s Health Ministry shows a monthslong heat wave across swathes of India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the last three and a half months.

A farmer rides his bullock cart toward his home in Dhondrai village, Beed district, India, Saturday, May 4, 2024. India's 120 million farmers share fast-shrinking water resources as groundwater is pumped out faster than rain can replenish it. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Farmers in India are weary of politicians’ lackluster response to their climate-driven water crisis

India’s 120 million farmers share fast-shrinking water resources as groundwater is pumped out faster than rain can replenish it. Drought-prone areas like Marathwada are at the sharp end of the shortage, making life unbearable for many.

Vaibhav Maske, a farmer, carries water in a vessel at his farm outside Beed, India, Friday, May 3, 2024. Voters in India, from the rain-drenched Himalayas in the north to the sweltering, dry south, are looking for politicians who promise relief, stability and resilience to the wide-ranging and damaging effects of a warming climate. Maske said local and federal governments need to prioritize providing a water source for farming. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Climate change impacts millions in India. But as the country votes, some politicians skirt the issue

Voters in India, from the rain-drenched Himalayas in the north to the sweltering, dry south, are looking for politicians who promise relief, stability and resilience to the wide-ranging and damaging effects of a warming climate.

FILE - Parking attendant Andy Tinto uses laundry clips to put a blue towel over his cap to protect himself from the sun in Manila, Philippines on Monday, April 29, 2024. Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study found. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Sweltering heat across Asia was 45 times more likely because of climate change, study finds

Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found.

FILE - Tim McCanon, center, is rescued by the Community Fire Department during severe flooding on Friday, May 3, 2024, in New Caney, Texas. In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

In a world growing increasingly accustomed to wild weather swings, the last few days and weeks have seemingly taken those environmental extremes to a new level.

A boy holds a placard at a rally for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party leader and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state, M. K. Stalin, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Why voters in southern India are more resistant to Modi’s Hindu-centric politics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exercised near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country’s wealthier southern region.

Bhaskar Rao, a farm worker, sprays natural pesticide at a multi-crop farm belonging to Meerabi Chunduru, an avid practitioner and advocate of natural farming techniques, in Aremanda village in Guntur district of southern India's Andhra Pradesh state, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. The area has become a positive example of the benefits of natural farming, a process of using organic matter as fertilizers and pesticides that makes crops more resilient to bad weather. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Farmers in India are hit hard by extreme weather. Some say expanding natural farming is the answer

India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state has become a positive example of the benefits of natural farming, a process of using organic matter as fertilizers and pesticides that makes crops more resilient to bad weather, and advocates say active government support is the primary driver for the state’s su

FILE - Indian farmer Ram Singh Patel, right, and his wife Kantee Devi take their cattle out in the open in Fatehpur district south of Lucknow, India, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India has millions of dairy farmers. It’s creating a methane problem that’s tricky to solve

India is the world’s largest milk producer, and is home to 80 million dairy farmers who made 231 million tons of milk last year.

Residents of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, collect potable water from a private tanker in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Water levels are running desperately low, particularly in poorer regions, resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India’s Bengaluru is fast running out of water, and a long, scorching summer still looms

Workers of Solar Square place a panel on the rooftop of a residence in Gurugram on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation that's hungry for energy. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India wants to hook its population onto clean energy by boosting rooftop solar

India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation that’s hungry for energy.

FILE - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event at the Chatham House think tank in London, Jan. 15, 2024. Speaking to over 1,000 computer code developers in India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Bengaluru, Thursday Nadella, asked them to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools that they are deploying across their products. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Microsoft’s Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged more than a thousand Indian computer code developers to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products.

FILE - Workers install solar panels at the Pavagada Solar Park 175 Kilometers north of Bangalore, India, March 1, 2018. Renewable projects have grown steadily in India for years, but a mix of policy decisions, politics and supply chain issues have slowed progress on solar projects in 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

India’s clean energy boom slows as new solar projects get delayed. Experts say it can pick back up

For years, renewable projects in India have been growing steadily — from small-town rooftop solar installations to large-scale projects across the desert and long stretches of wind turbines and solar panels on farmland all helping the country transition to clean energy.