The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024 – and the risk is…
Study warns sites must be protected in search for materials to build infrastructure.
The mining necessary for producing renewable energy could exacerbate threats to biodiversity, researchers have…
Until recently, microplastics that enter the ocean from paint have not received a lot of attention. There has been very little focus on the fact that unless paint residuals are collected during…
Water seeping into fissures in Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, accelerating rise of sea levels.
British scientists have mapped cavities half the size of the Grand Canyon that are allowing warm ocean…
Climate Action 100+ group put 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies on notice in latest campaign by shareholders.
A group representing investors that collectively…
Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on…
There are more than 14,000 firefighters working across the state to contain around 25 major fires.
California is having a record-breaking year of flames, as dozens of wildfires have set the state…
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
The California governor, Gavin Newsom, said ‘this is not a world that anyone should be experiencing’ as he surveyed charred mountain terrain devastated by wildfires. ‘If you do not believe in science…
U.S. President Donald Trump has undone many major pieces of climate policy during his term,walking out on the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming and eliminating numerous Obama-era…
A new international study that used unprecedented calculations to pinpoint how much global air travel contributes to the heating of the atmosphere found that aviation makes up 3.5 percent of all the…
Friends of the Earth seeks judicial review, saying aid deal contradicts climate commitments.
Environmentalists at Friends of the Earth will mount a legal challenge against the government’s decision…
The secretive way in which plastic recycling is handled in the UK carries the potential for the next big scandal. While the government's statutory guidance is supposed to clarify who is responsible, …
Wind and solar, the country’s cheapest source of new generation, also overlooked
Pakistan risks locking itself into building more power capacity than it needs as a result of over-optimistic energy…
Bonn– A new online platform on sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 has been launched by the Government of Japan with support from UN Climate Change.
The new platform, called “Platform…
Sudan is in a state of emergency after authorities declared the country a disaster zone last week because of heavy flooding that's killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses since…
The city of Hoboken on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against multiple Big Oil players—including ExxonMobil, incorporated in New Jersey—joining an increasing number of state and local governments using…
Oil will be replaced by clean electricity, BP predicts, as demand may never recover from Covid-19 pandemic.
BP has called time on the world’s rising demand for fossil fuels after finding that demand…
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