Samuel Gilbert visited four distinct wilderness areas near the new border wall, which is fragmenting protected habitats and threatening endangered species.
Lloyd’s of London firm Apollo has written insurance for Adani Enterprises’ Carmichael thermal coal mine which expires in Sept 2021 but is not planning to provide any further insurance for the mine,…
Switzerland is in the process of completely revising its CO2-Act, its key piece of climate change legislation. The current draft is stronger than the version that the National Council failed to adopt…
With demand and share prices dropping, Europe’s fossil fuel producers recognise that peak oil is probably now behind them.
Ayear ago, only the most ardent climate optimists believed that the world’s…
Soils could release equivalent of four times China’s emissions over past century, scientists warn.
Soil is a huge, but little-recognised, carbon storage facility.
As well as helping the economy recover after the Covid-19 pandemic, new jobs in clean-electricity generation and low-carbon heating solutions could help the UK meet its net-zero targets.
Jobs that…
I think relief is the word that expresses the emotion common to most people
And the feeling of hope, for the things that can finally be done now or restored or restarted or corrected
WASHINGTON: Joe Biden vowed Wednesday that the US would rejoin the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House, hours after the withdrawal ordered by Donald Trump took effect.
"Today,…
With so many votes cast for Trump in US election, some researchers conclude they must work harder to communicate the importance of facts, science and truth.
As the possibility of a landslide victory…
Trump administration set US withdrawal in motion a year ago but it didn’t take effect until 4 November.
The United States on Wednesday officially became the only country in the world refusing to…
This is going to drag on now. There will be challenges and counter-challenges, lawsuits and recounts. Maybe protests, maybe violence. It’s been almost 24 hours since the polls closed and it’s…
China's aggressive policy of planting trees is likely playing a significant role in tempering its climate impacts.
An international team has identified two areas in the country where the scale of…
Exclusive: expedition discovers new source of greenhouse gas off East Siberian coast has been triggered.
Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as…
Along the Atlantic coast, ghost forests provide haunting signs of sea-level rise. These stands of bleached and broken tree trunks are all that remain after salty water inundates a forest.
Matt…
Arctic Ocean sediments are full of frozen gases known as hydrates, and scientists have long been concerned about what will happen when and if the climate crisis induces them to thaw. That is because…