If I asked you, what is the most common form of plastic pollution, what would you say? Plastic bottles? Straws?
While these are good guesses, they are not the correct answer. Cigarette butts are…
By early June, emissions had mostly returned to the levels of the same period in 2019, a UN report found.
The Covid-19 pandemic will deliver an unprecedented annual drop in global greenhouse gas…
*This story was originally published on CBS News on September 9, 2020. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication.
Britain needs to step up and become a global leader in climate action, creating a number of green jobs and boosting productivity to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the CBI…
Ingka Group will accelerate its investments to ensure IKEA reaches its overall commitment to become climate positive by 2030.
Ingka Group will accelerate its investments to ensure IKEA reaches its…
Hotter heatwaves, higher sea levels and more severe droughts: This is the sweltering reality in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where climate change is an especially urgent issue. By 2030,…
Insurance market says claims totalled £2.4bn in first half of 2020, leading to £400m loss.
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has said it expects up to £5bn to be paid out in…
Credit Suisse launches Ocean Engagement Fund to advise and steer portfolio companies towards tackling any practices that harm the ocean.
Credit Suisse launches Ocean Engagement Fund to advise and…
Pinning hopes of economic recovery on fossil fuel comes at huge environmental cost, analysis warns.
Australia’s untapped gas reservoirs could lead to three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas…
A recent Science Magazine feature blamed an underwater heat blob for exacerbating sea ice loss as it proclaimed what many Arctic scientists already know: Arctic sea ice is racing toward its demise…
Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp has sold all its stake in the Marcellus shale gas project in the United States for an undisclosed sum, it said on Monday in a statement.
Sumitomo bought a 30%…
London - Keeping food fresh without refrigeration is near impossible in the scorching climate of sub-Saharan Africa. But it's hard to power fridges in a region where almost 600 million people live…
Why has Earth’s climate remained so stable over geological time? The answer just might rock you.
Rocks, particularly the types created by volcanic activity, play a critical role in keeping Earth’s…
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Thursday that robust interventions rolled out by governments and donor agencies to fight desert locusts in the Horn of African…
Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality.
Like millions of people in the western United States this week, I woke up to deep red,…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Andrew Wheeler gave a speech Thursday where he accused Democratic efforts to stop theclimate crisis as actions that have hurt poor and…
The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect.
We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more.
In recent days, at…