Campaigners warn of US ‘dark money’ take-over across continent.
Right-wing US groups, some with links to Donald Trump, are spending millions of pounds campaigning against LGBT and women's rights in…
The Tongass spans more than 25,000 square miles (64,750 sq km) in southeast Alaska and is one of the largest intact temperate rain forests in the world.
Donald Trump’s reelection could have a lasting impact on the fight against the climate crisis, scientists say.
A second Trump term would end mid-way through the 2020s, a decade in which scientists…
As the days tick down to next month's presidential election, debate rages over the U.S. government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with critics of President Donald Trump calling for his ouster…
It has been around 20 years since a lengthy discussion on climate change featured in a presidential debate during which time a monumental shift has happened in how America views the crisis.
With President Donald Trump's re-election very much in doubt, his administration is rushing to ram through regulatory rollbacks that could adversely affect millions of Americans, the environment, and…
In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people.
"I want crystal clean water and air."
That's what Donald Trump said in the first chaotic…
Trump has long preferred a mob-like form of communication which lives and dies on plausible deniability. He employed it masterfully last night in Arizona.
“All I have to do is call up the head of…
Days after federal data revealed taxpayers funded the killing of 1.2 million native animal species in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program was sued Thursday over what…
The U.S. solar industry has managed to live with the tariffs thus far, but the pandemic complicates things.
A presidential proclamation released by the White House this weekend would increase…
The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious medical journals, called the U.S. response to the pandemic an "astonishing" failure and called for leadership change in the upcoming…
Back in March, when the pandemic had just planted its roots in the U.S., President Donald Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do something devastating: The agency was to …
Michael Mann, one of the world’s most eminent climate experts, says Earth’s future ‘is in the hands of American citizens.
This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a collaboration…
A new report shows the U.S. government bought more than $350 million in bonds issued by oil and gas companies and induced investors to loan the industry tens of billions more at artificially low…
When President Donald Trump visited California on September 14 and dismissed the state Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot's plea to recognize the role of climate change in the midst of the…
To understand the planetary importance of this autumn's presidential election, check the calendar. Voting ends on November 3—and by a fluke of timing, on the morning of November 4 the United States…
The question framed the existence of a human-made climate crisis as something that is for some Americans still debatable.
The long-awaited climate question in last night’s presidential debate broke…