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The Israeli occupation army carried out four controlled demolitions of residential buildings southeast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, within areas where its forces are deployed.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with journalist Isabel Hilton. As the United States fully withdrew from the United Nations climate negotiations in the fall of 2025, China stepped forward with an absolute emissions-reduction target of at least 7 percent by 2035. While the U.S. is the world’s largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases, China is the largest present-day emitter. With the U.S. now gone from the negotiating table, China is effectively in charge of the terms of international climate agreements. And since energy drives so much of modern commerce, China is already seizing the moment to develop its economy by supplying the world with the clean technologies of the future, as the U.S. lags behind. Analysis by Carbon Brief shows that in 2025 solar power, electric vehicles and other clean-energy technologies powered more than a third of China’s gross domestic product growth at the same time the U.S. economy had lower growth and higher inflation. Isabel Hilton is a former BBC journalist and founder of Dialogue Earth, which started as China Dialogue. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. STEVE CURWOOD: What is China’s political...

Advocates for animal welfare, environmental protection, public health, and small family farms condemned "industry-backed poison pills" in the GOP Farm Bill draft.