Climate variability and extreme weather events stalk at least 20 Latin American countries and increase the risk of hunger and malnutrition in the region, according
January 27, 2025
A new study finds that extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions
January 27, 2025
How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires
January 27, 2025
Everyone agrees FEMA needs to change. The question is how
January 25, 2025
Dead sea turtles keep washing ashore on India’s east coast and environmentalists and authorities are trying frantically to stop the number of 600 dead from getting even higher
January 23, 2025
U.S.
January 24, 2025
State proposal would remove 'climate change' and 'evolution' from Iowa science standards
January 24, 2025The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather
January 24, 2025
As promised, President Donald Trump began reversing the country’s energy policies on his first day in office with a spate of orders largely favoring oil, gas and coal
January 23, 2025
Fears that the world’s biggest iceberg could hit island in the South Atlantic
January 23, 2025
By Lisandra Paraguassu As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the
January 23, 2025
Neolithic people in Denmark sacrificed ‘sun stones’ after climate cataclysm, scientists say
January 23, 2025
The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals
January 23, 2025
Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week
January 23, 2025
China made a bet decades ago because it couldn’t compete with the US on cars. That bet is paying off big
January 23, 2025
Coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaches ‘catastrophic’ levels, study finds
January 23, 2025
A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc’s push for clean energy and the new U.S. administration’s pursuit of more fossil fuels
January 22, 2025
U.S. oil and gas producers are thrilled that President Donald Trump wants to encourage domestic energy development but say his decision to
January 22, 2025
V, the playwright formerly Eve Ensler, is hoping her new piece of theater can do for climate change what her “The Vagina Monologues” did for women’s rights
January 22, 2025
Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet – using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ecosystems.
January 22, 2025
You’ll pay for the LA fires even if you don’t live near LA
January 22, 2025
A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen before
January 21, 2025
The US is stuck in a repeating cycle of presidents undoing each other
January 21, 2025The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner
January 21, 2025
A second U.S. withdrawal from the world's primary climate pact will have a bigger impact - in the U.S. and globally - than the country's
January 21, 2025
President Donald Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris climate deal on Monday, removing the world's biggest historic
January 20, 2025
Central bankers agree that climate change poses a threat to the financial system. An insurance crisis is exactly the kind of problem that could spread.
January 21, 2025What is the Paris Agreement? Trump pulled the US out — again
January 21, 2025Trump signs actions to pull US out of Paris climate agreement, intends to promote fossil fuels and mineral mining
January 20, 2025
That depends on how you define ‘normal.’ The baseline has been creeping up as the planet warms.
January 06, 2025
Donald Trump's second presidential term could have huge implications for U.S. trade policy, climate change, the war in Ukraine, electric vehicles, Americans'
November 06, 2024
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland set out four years ago on a historic journey as the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary
January 19, 2025
All told, donors gave more than US$397 million to support recovery from the ‘black summer’ bushfire disaster.
January 17, 2025
The worst thing LA could do as it recovers from fire disaster
January 18, 2025Four of Canada's biggest lenders said on Friday they were withdrawing from a global banking sector climate coalition, joining six major U.S. banks.
January 17, 2025
A group of Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging a ban announced by outgoing Democratic U.S.
January 18, 2025
Tens of thousands of people in Australia's New South Wales state were without power on Saturday after a low pressure system brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood
January 17, 2025The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the financial system could help combat climate change
January 17, 2025
Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s
January 17, 2025
In many parts of the US, Americans must learn to live with fire. That means careful decisions on where homes are built and what’s around them, and allowing more low-risk fires to burn.
January 16, 2025
It could be a week or more before homeowners in the Los Angeles area are allowed to check on their fire-damaged properties
January 16, 2025
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -Homeowners in areas most at risk of damage from hurricanes, wildfires and other climate perils pay far more for insurance than those who live in the least exposed areas,
January 16, 2025
Unusually high number of right whales gathered in 1 spot off New England coast
January 16, 2025U.S.
January 16, 2025
After disasters like the wildfires in Los Angeles happen, much of the rebuilding work is done by Latino immigrant workers, many in the country illegally
January 16, 2025
State utility regulators will vote Thursday on Southern California Edison's wildfire-mitigation plan, which safety auditors have said does not
January 16, 2025
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) and conservative People's Party (OVP) plan to improve the state's finances by scrapping climate-change-related measures
January 16, 2025
The Los Angeles fires may be the most costly natural disaster in US history. An expert on safety, risk reduction and complex systems calls for a blue-ribbon commission to analyze their causes.
January 15, 2025
Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary, told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would promote all sources of American energy, while also acknowledging the burning of fossil fuels causes climate change
January 15, 2025
A judge has dismissed New York City's lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell liable for misleading the public about their products, and their
January 15, 2025
President Joe Biden offered up a few surprises in his farewell address
January 16, 2025
Right-wing media figures call for withholding California wildfire aid, blame ‘liberals’ for disaster
January 16, 2025
When Lucy Walker debuted her harrowing documentary about California wildfires, “Bring Your Own Brigade,” at Sundance in 2021, it was during peak COVID
January 14, 2025
Ireland's two dominant centre-right parties agreed a coalition deal with enough independent lawmakers on Wednesday to return to power for another five years and continue their
January 15, 2025
The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its
January 15, 2025
The causes of the wind-driven fires that burned thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area are under investigation, but there were no lightning strikes reported at the time.
January 13, 2025
Caring.com examined data from the National Weather Service and elsewhere to determine how extreme weather events are impacting older Americans.
January 08, 2025
Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days
January 15, 2025
LA fires were larger and more intense because of planet-warming pollution, study suggests
January 15, 2025
Tucked in a valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas of the Indian Kashmir region is the town of Pampore, famed for its farms that grow the world's most
January 15, 2025
A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists
January 15, 2025
Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity
January 14, 2025
CNN's Kyung Lah speaks with California Gov. Gavin Newsom about the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles and the surrounding communities.
January 12, 2025
59 degrees Fahrenheit might not sound that chilly. In Thailand’s capital, it’s a shock to the system
January 14, 2025
More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes have released an open letter calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment to new food distribution efforts
January 14, 2025
High winds have been a key ingredient in the devastating fires in Los Angeles -- and they’re picking up again
January 13, 2025
The Supreme Court is declining to hear an appeal from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change
January 13, 2025
The U.S.
January 13, 2025
In emergencies, dumping ocean water on fires may be the best option. But seawater can have long-term effects on equipment and ecosystems, as a novel coastal experiment shows.
January 13, 2025
Barclays' group head of sustainability Laura Barlow has stepped down to pursue other opportunities, a spokesperson told Reuters, the latest senior reshuffle
January 13, 2025Air passengers numbers are projected to more than double by 2050, boosting fuel demand and undermining the aviation industry's efforts to cut emissions, a study
January 12, 2025
Some people in Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that provide shade and respite from heat and air pollution
January 12, 2025
Ice core may hold answers to mysteries of Earth’s past
January 12, 2025
The world’s most turbulent flights revealed
January 11, 2025
Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say
January 11, 2025
Wildfires are a threat to mental health that can linger even years later
January 10, 2025
Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold
January 10, 2025
No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage
January 10, 2025
Firefighters are hoping for a break from the fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation’s second-largest city on edge
January 10, 2025
U.N.
January 10, 2025
Global temperatures in 2024 exceeded 1.5 Celsius above the pre-industrial era for the first time, bringing the world closer to breaching the
January 10, 2025
The year 2024 was the hottest on record, a spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organisation said ahead of the release later on Friday of a comprehensive report incorporating
January 10, 2025
A turbulent year for sustainable finance is set to continue in 2025 as the return of Donald Trump as U.S. president heralds more regional divergence on everything
January 10, 2025
China emitted 13 billion metric tons of climate-warming greenhouse gases in 2021, up 4.3% from a year earlier, it said in its latest official submission to the United Nations,
January 10, 2025
As the cataclysmic wildfires rage across Los Angeles, President-elect Donald Trump isn't offering much sympathy
January 09, 2025
Spanish chef Jose Andres rolled his World Central Kitchen food aid organization into Los Angeles as wildfires burned on Thursday and advocated
January 09, 2025
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, said on Thursday it will leave the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the latest Wall Street firm to depart an environmentally
January 09, 2025
From flooding rain to unmitigated wildfire: Why California is ground zero for disasters
January 09, 2025
An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old
January 09, 2025
A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual
January 09, 2025
Scientists said the wind-whipped wildfires tearing across the arid Los Angeles landscape mark the latest in climate-fuelled weather extremes that are
January 08, 2025
Here's what experts say is turning Southern California's speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying the calendar
January 08, 2025
Water availability regulates tree growth and can have ‘legacy effects’ long after conditions change.
January 09, 2025
Sustainability is a key theme this year at the annual CES tech trade show in Las Vegas
January 09, 2025
Hurricanes, storms, floods and other natural disasters caused an estimated $140 billion in insured losses in 2024, up from 2023 and one of the
January 09, 2025
Some Los Angeles fire hydrants ran dry in recent days as demand soared for water to quell fast-moving wildfires
January 08, 2025
Fast Facts: Wildfire trends in the US
July 25, 2024This week’s winter wallop across the U.S. means different things to farmers in different places
January 08, 2025
Trump wants to buy Greenland again. Here’s why he’s so interested in the world’s largest island
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry
January 07, 2025
Global efforts to address climate change will be dealt a severe blow if U.S.
January 08, 2025
Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet
January 07, 2025
The Biden administration on Tuesday released guidance to help companies secure clean energy tax credits under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, finalizing a program to extend
January 07, 2025
Oregon homeowners who live in certain areas at high risk of wildfire must now meet new building and so-called defensible space codes
January 07, 2025
Storm surges often are the most deadly and destructive phenomena to accompany a hurricane or tropical cyclone. Here is an explanation of how they form and why they are so dangerous.
January 07, 2025
Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering
January 07, 2025
Scientists discover concerning new source of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
January 06, 2025
From dried-up rivers to flooded crops and cities, rising temperatures in 2024 wreaked havoc with water, creating life-threatening challenges for people and nature alike. Explore this interactive map.
January 05, 2025
Jimmy Carter considered himself such an environmentalist that he made green his signature campaign color
January 06, 2025
U.S.
January 06, 2025
After another record-breaking year for global temperatures in 2024, pressure is rising on policymakers to step up efforts to curb climate change.
November 12, 2024The future of scrub mints could be in jeopardy because of climate change, development and misclassification.
January 06, 2025
NCDOT to study pre-placing drones before major storms like Helene
January 06, 2025
Using digital blueprints of the metabolism of microbes, scientists can simulate expensive and time-intensive experiments set in space, power plants and farm fields.
January 06, 2025
President Joe Biden is set to ban new offshore oil and gas development across 625 million acres (250 million hectares) of U.S. coastal territory, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
January 04, 2025
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an oil industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change
January 03, 2025
The Biden administration said on Friday portions of nuclear power plants will be able to secure tax credits to produce clean hydrogen if the credits help to
January 03, 2025
‘Mystery volcano’ that erupted and cooled Earth in 1831 has finally been identified
January 03, 2025
Investment bank Morgan Stanley said on Thursday it had decided to leave the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, becoming the latest U.S. lender to quit the sector's top global climate
January 02, 2025Chinese meteorological data shows 2024 was the warmest year for the country since comparable records began more than six decades ago, the second straight year in which milestones
January 01, 2025
The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024
December 27, 2024
Scientists say human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat worldwide in 2024
December 27, 2024
2024 was another banner year for a source of electricity that is better for people’s lungs, better for climate change and may be reaching your home now when you turn on the lights or turn up the thermostat — large banks of batteries
December 27, 2024
New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy
December 26, 2024
Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul
December 26, 2024
The bird at the center of the worst single-species mortality event in modern history isn’t recovering, scientists say
December 26, 2024
California has been hit hard by extreme weather over the past several weeks
December 24, 2024
The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region
December 24, 2024
The next massive volcanic eruption is coming. It will cause chaos the world is not prepared for
December 24, 2024Michael Regan, who has led the Environmental Protection Agency throughout President Joe Biden’s four-year term, said Friday he will be leaving the agency Dec. 31, about three weeks before Biden’ leaves office
December 20, 2024
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content. This could threaten the health of herbivores worldwide.
December 20, 2024
Macron tells cyclone-hit Mayotte islanders to be grateful they are French after facing jeers
December 20, 2024
This greenhouse keeps crops cool. It could prove valuable as our planet bakes
November 28, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal Joe Biden's signature climate bill called the Inflation Reduction Act, which initially aimed at some $400 billion in new spending and tax
December 20, 2024
President Joe Biden is pledging to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035
December 19, 2024
For decades, largescale engineering projects for development and agriculture drained and partitioned South Florida's Everglades, a vast wetlands landscape home to endangered and threatened species and a vital source of drinking water for millions of Floridians
December 19, 2024
Montana's top court ruled on Wednesday the state's constitution guarantees a right to a stable climate and invalidates laws barring regulators from considering the effects
December 18, 2024
The Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte is reeling from Cyclone Chido, the most intense storm to hit the French territory in 90 years, according to officials
December 18, 2024
European Union countries on Tuesday approved a year's delay to the bloc's anti-deforestation law, confirming the postponement of the world-first green policy, the
December 18, 2024
Mayotte was already struggling with overcrowding, illness and poverty before a devastating cyclone hit the French island territory at the
December 18, 2024
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plans what it calls the world's first grid-scale
December 17, 2024
The European Parliament gave its final approval on Tuesday to a one-year delay of Europe's
December 17, 2024
If federal streamgages were bolstered by networks of cheaper monitors run by communities, the results could save lives.
December 17, 2024
European Union plans for a new renewable energy goal hit early resistance on Monday from pro-nuclear governments, who indicated they would not back a goal that
December 16, 2024
In 2024, it often felt like it was flooding somewhere in the world.
December 16, 2024
In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing number of deserts have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes that didn’t address the scale of the problems
December 16, 2024
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again
December 16, 2024
Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree on a plan to deal with global droughts, made longer and more severe by a warming climate
December 14, 2024
Saudi Arabia says that to host the 2034 World Cup in men’s soccer, it will build or renovate 15 stadiums, create a futuristic city and expand airports and public transport in a massive buildout to accommodate millions of athletes, coaches and spectators
December 13, 2024
Two weeks of historic and closely-watched hearings on the threat of climate change have wrapped up at the UN's top court
December 13, 2024
The Supreme Court will consider how far outward federal agencies should look when they analyze how a proposed action could affect the environment.
December 04, 2024
A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
December 13, 2024
The World Court concludes hearings on Friday on countries' legal obligation to fight climate change and whether large states contributing most to
December 13, 2024
Negative language can perpetuate feelings of doom. Don’t be a doomer
December 13, 2024
A new AI-powered weather model could be key to the future of your forecast. But there’s a catch
December 13, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged rich nations to honor their new commitments to help the world’s poorer countries fight climate change in a speech to Lesotho’s Parliament
December 12, 2024
New Jersey is considering charging fees on producers of fossil fuels to help the state that is home to several oil and gas facilities fight the effects of climate change
December 12, 2024
Climate change is making the Philippines more vulnerable to tropical storms, with rising temperatures already putting the country at nearly double the risk of deadly typhoons,
December 12, 2024
Nearly 10% of the planet’s human inhabitants live within 3.1 miles of the coast − where the risk of climate disasters is often highest.
December 12, 2024
In Bolivia's highland city of El Alto, the row of colorful corrugated metal roofs - blues, oranges, reds and greens - for a moment distracts from the
December 12, 2024
The U.S. solar industry unveiled its lobbying strategy for the incoming Trump administration on Thursday, promoting itself as a domestic jobs engine that can help meet soaring power demand
December 12, 2024
Executives from Pfizer Inc and Amazon.com see opportunities for working with U.S. health secretary nominee Robert F.
December 11, 2024
The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a significant carbon source
December 11, 2024
There is more than a 50% chance of La Niña developing in the next three months, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, but if it does it will be relatively
December 11, 2024
US wildlife officials move to add iconic monarch butterfly to threatened species list
December 10, 2024
U.S. wildlife officials have decided to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies
December 10, 2024
About 9,500 forest fires, including one on the outskirts of Athens, consumed nearly 44,500 hectares of land this year, Greece's hottest and driest on record, official said on
December 10, 2024
Rapid changes underway in the Arctic affect the region’s people and wildlife, and the entire planet.
December 10, 2024Powerful Santa Ana wind event to bring particularly dangerous fire weather to Southern California
December 09, 2024
‘This is all pink and attractive, but we are going to die’: Anastasia Samoylova on photographing Florida’s climate anxiety
December 09, 2024
Workers in some of the world's biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change
December 08, 2024
A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat
December 06, 2024
A closely-watched international climate case that could yield guidance for governments around the world wrapped its first week of arguments before the top court of the United Nations in The Hague Friday
December 06, 2024
Canada will appoint a new Arctic ambassador and open two new consulates in the region
December 06, 2024Goldman Sachs said it has quit a sector coalition aimed at aligning bank lending and investment activities with global efforts to fight climate
December 06, 2024
A group of climate vulnerable nations is using a U.N. meeting this week to push for a credit ratings overhaul, arguing ratings should reflect
December 06, 2024
Man leaps on polar bear to save wife from attack
December 06, 2024Rwanda’s atomic energy board says it has signed a deal with a Canadian-German company to build its first small-scale nuclear reactor to test what the company claims is a new approach for nuclear fission
September 13, 2023Climate scientists say storms like Hurricane Lee could become more common in the future as the Gulf of Maine and other bodies of water rapidly warm
September 16, 2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and the financial risks stemming from global warming
September 17, 2023
For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic
September 18, 2023
Experts hope the sputtering global public health system and efforts to curb global warming through collaboration can combine to create a better system for handling the problem
September 18, 2023
More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more
September 19, 2023
The world has been warming faster than expected. Scientists now think they know why
December 05, 2024
More than 60 countries have said they back a deal spearheaded by the European Union, United States and United Arab Emirates to
November 10, 2023
France, backed by the United States, plans to seek a halt to private financing for coal-based
November 21, 2023
The Greek parliament on Wednesday approved a bill increasing a daily tax on short-term rental and hotel accommodation and charging cruise ship visitors a levy to cope with the
December 04, 2024
Debt swaps are becoming a more widely used tool to help indebted countries raise money for conservation or climate-related projects.
December 02, 2024
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was in the U.S. territory of Guam on Wednesday, his second U.S. stopover in less than a week during a tour to reinforce ties with Pacific allies in the face of
December 04, 2024
Cambodian study finds climate vulnerability hurts toilet functionality and leads to more open defecation.
November 19, 2024
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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