Animals traded for pet industry, bushmeat, traditional medicine, ivory and lab use declined locally by up to 99.9%.
Wildlife populations decline by an average of 62% in areas where species are…
Unusual weather blanketed the Acropolis with snow on Tuesday (Feb. 16), turning the iconic site in Athens into a scene from a holiday card.
An aerial image of the complex, which is perched on a…
As the climate crisis worsens, Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers.
The men on the midnight shift smoked cigarettes and cracked jokes in the…
Like all predictions, these should be taken with a grain of salt ...
At the beginning of every year, trend forecasters the world over put together expensive reports predicting what the future will…
Frozen wind turbines have caused almost half of Texas’s wind generation capacity to go offline in the midst of an “unprecedented storm”.
The Lone Star state is under a state of emergency after…
In a society currently dominated by social injustice, economic crisis, disease, and rampant misinformation, global trust in leaders and institutions is quickly eroding.
In a society currently…
A new paper argues that returning to estimates for the cost of carbon dioxide used in the Obama era would leave the U.S. far behind its Paris Agreement goals.
António Guterres says Covid pandemic must not halt preparatory work for key summit in Glasgow.
Governments must step up their efforts ahead of vital climate talks this year by agreeing to negotiate…
Let's not waste time. You will need: warm clothes, plenty of firewood and enough supplies (flour, yeast, toilet paper — the usual) to not have to leave the house for the next week or two.
In 2015, Parties to the UNFCCC adopted the Paris Agreement, to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above…
Five Democratic lawmakers on Friday encouraged President Joe Biden to order an immediate shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week…
For the second time in as many years, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected a landmark climate lawsuit brought by a group of young people — who say they will now take their case…
The flooding caused by Storm Christoph is a harbinger of worsening “climate shocks” in the UK, the chair of the Environment Agency has warned.
England and Wales faced a deluge this week as the storm…
As the climate crisis escalates, some have called for more research into technologies that could reflect away the sun’s rays in order to limit temperature rise. Daisy Dunne looks at the technical,…
Why Joe Biden needs to restore shareholder democracy in the US.
We can’t waste any more time addressing the global warming issue we’re facing. The amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere…
Cross-party committee says deprived groups contribute least but suffer most from dirty air.
The government must set tough new air pollution targets to reduce the stark health inequalities suffered…
Smart, activist states could prove as effective at handling the biodiversity crisis as they have at tackling the pandemic
Let’s be honest: few government-commissioned reports make a real difference…
Carbon emission cuts need to be about 80 per cent more ambitious to stay below 2 degree Celsius global warming -- considered a threshold for climate stability and climate-related risks such as…