Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince
In San Francisco’s Sunset District, rows and rows of pastel-colored, two-storey…
The city is surrounded by flames. On the ground, there are tales of heroism – and fear for the future.
Little had prepared any of us on the Athens-bound flight for the sight of the great fire-…
China continues to announce new steel mills and coal-fired power plants even as the country maps out a path to zeroing out heat-trapping emissions.
State-owned firms proposed 43 new coal-fired…
Frackers in America’s largest oil field are letting massive amounts of natural gas spill into the atmosphere. Scientists and activists are trying to find the leaks and get them plugged before they…
I’m always down with more food and fewer heatwaves.
Biochar — organic material baked in oxygen-starved environments — can help power up the agriculture industry while also fighting against climate…
The less-infamous greenhouse gas is also a problem to be reckoned with.
Climate experts are sounding the alarm on the role methane emissions play in global warming. Atmospheric concentrations of…
It was bound to happen. With temperatures rising year after year, largely as an effect of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, multiple parts of the globe have broken temperature records. Now, NOAA has…
This past weekend, researchers at the National Science Foundation's Summit Station observed rainfall at the peak of Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet for the first time on record — an event…
Federal officials, for the first time ever, declared a water shortage from the Colorado River on Monday — yet another bleak indicator of the magnitude of the drought across the West made worse by…
As wildfires swept through the Italian island of Sicily, fueled by an extreme heatwave, officials in one city recorded on Wednesday what is believed to be the highest temperature ever recorded in…
Scientists paint apocalyptic vision of soaring temperatures and catastrophic impacts on agriculture without signing of crucial Montreal Protocol
On 16 May 1985, three scientists from the British…
The COVID pandemic has shown the fragility of our global food supply chains, with many supermarkets and restaurants in almost every country having experienced food shortages. Millions of people in…
Study reinforces the hard evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of worsening extreme weather.
The record-shattering rainfall that caused deadly flooding across Germany and Belgium in…
Overlapping crises have pushed the fragile east African country to the ‘cusp of humanitarian catastrophe’, with one in four facing food insecurity.
Such was the horror that erupted in her village…
The heavy rainfall behind deadly flooding in Europe in July was made more likely by climate change, scientists say.
The floods in Germany, Belgium and other parts killed at least 220 people as towns…
A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the…
Device can also be installed in places unsuitable for traditional turbines
Istanbul has installed wind turbines that generate electricity using the air turbulence generated by traffic.
ENLIL is a…