Kimberly Gallegos Lazo

Warming temperatures and prolonged drought -the same conditions that ignite severe wildfires - also drive-up concentrations of ground-level tropospheric ozone, a phytotoxic pollutant that strikes at the very mechanisms plants rely on to recover.

Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, set for 2025, is expected to cast the world on its right side in the fight against climate change. This summit is the sequel to COP28 in Dubai, which left a diplomatic legacy when fossil fuels were included in the final agreement for the first time. But that breakthrough, even while symbolically significant, did not extend beyond the general call to “transition away” from using them without setting specific commitments or timelines. Now, Belém...