The European Commission has today decided to refer Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union for poor air quality caused by high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). When the limit values set…
Footage of New Yorkers struggling to wade through filthy, waist-deep water at a Manhattan subway station as heavy rainfall engulfed the city's aging and long-neglected infrastructure on Thursday…
Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives – including the buildings we live and work in. Most people in the US, for example, spend about 90% of their time indoors. Climate change is…
A Canadian-based global renewable energy solutions group is joining forces with New Energy Nexus and the Government of Denmark to help deploy 10,000 new youth-led clean energy initiatives by 2030.
Drought and deadly heatwaves fuel flames that threaten Native American tribal lands struggling to save water.
Wildfires burning across the US west have engulfed nearly a million acres and drawn in…
On the Friday before the extended July 4 weekend, the developers seeking to build the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline through predominantly Black neighborhoods called it quits.
Cutting emissions more urgent than ever, say scientists, with forest producing more than a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it…
Search for missing continues, with Netherlands, Switzerland and Luxembourg also affected.
The death toll from catastrophic floods in western Germany and Belgium has risen to more than 150, local…
Better use of the latest climate attribution science in lawsuits against companies and governments that pollute could bring far more wins in the courts, says a new study in Nature Climate Change.
A new report has found that a policy standard would be most effective to reach the goal of 80% renewable energy use by 2030.
A Biden administration plan to force the rapid uptake of renewable energy…
Less than a week after a deadly “heat dome” devastated western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest and burned Lytton, B.C. to the ground, an international science team is reporting that the…
THURSDAY 08 July 2021 (New York): The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has released a breakthrough publication ‘Inclusive Digital Economies for the Sustainable Development Goals’.…
The fires come as the West is blasted with its second, life-threatening heatwave in a matter of weeks.
A wildfire is raging on the edge of one of America’s most iconic public lands, Yosemite…
Biodiversity loss, rising temperatures and increased toxicity for oceans and wider society if emissions continue.
The world may be approaching an irreversible tipping point for plastic pollution, a…
Anthropogenic warming of climate has been a factor in extreme precipitation events globally, researchers say.
Human activity such as such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use change were a key…
Reducing global heating could save millions of people from mosquito-borne diseases, study finds
More than 8 billion people could be at risk of malaria and dengue fever by 2080 if greenhouse gas…
Retailers H&M Group, Ingka Group (IKEA), Kingfisher plc and Walmart have launched a new climate retail campaign.
In partnership with the COP26 High Level Climate Action Champions and supported…
The Independent was the first international news outlet to be allowed into the destroyed town of Lytton, British Columbia. Ashleigh Stewart joined residents seeing the extent of the destruction for…
The companies will join forces to progress the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in aircraft engines and shape policies that support a net zero pathway for the industry.
Shell and Rolls-Royce…
Water investigators track down wasteful homeowners and public turf torn up to conserve scarce water supplies
Investigator Perry Kaye jammed the brakes of his government-issued vehicle to survey…