New Zealanders have gone to the polls and decided to keep Jacinda Ardern at the helm for another three years. The Labour leader’s promise of kindness, hope and protecting nature has clearly mirrored…
Xi Jinping wants China to get to net-zero emissions. These researchers have a plan for that.
On the virtual stage of the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Xi Jinping made a…
In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people.
"I want crystal clean water and air."
That's what Donald Trump said in the first chaotic…
Trump has long preferred a mob-like form of communication which lives and dies on plausible deniability. He employed it masterfully last night in Arizona.
“All I have to do is call up the head of…
Weather and climate have far-reaching effects on every part of life. The timing of seasons, range of daily and seasonal temperatures, the amount of rainfall – these all influence things as diverse as…
The government needs to stop subsidising high-carbon heating and use the extra revenue to support low-income homes, writes Libby Peake of the Green Alliance.
Experts are right to raise the alarm…
Indigenous people around the world have lived in concert with nature for centuries, practicing responsible land management, regenerative farming practices and water conservation.
But as Indigenous…
Solastalgia means a feeling of homesickness without ever leaving home - and for Inuit in Canada’s north it describes the psychological impact of the climate crisis
Solastalgia: ‘I am homesick…
Leaded petrol, acid rain, CFCs … the last 50 years of environmental action have shown how civil society can force governments and business to change.
Leaflets printed on “rather grotty” blue paper.…
More than 30 years after the entire border zone ceased to exist, the federal government has decided the 870 mile-long scar will be designated a nature reserve, writes Christopher F. Schuetze
One…
Count Us In urges actions such as eating local, making clothes last or buying an electric car.
If a billion people around the world were to take a few small steps and make them into permanent…
Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) annually adjusts its symbolic Doomsday Clock, which indicates how close humanity and the planet are to complete disaster. This year, we’re…
Climate change has spurred close to a doubling of natural disasters in the last 20 years, and world leaders are failing to prevent Earth from evolving into "an uninhabitable hell" for millions, the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate change poses a serious threat to global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday, urging the world’s top emitters to agree on a floor for…
We Indigenous people are fighting to save the Amazon, but the whole planet is in trouble because you do not respect it.
Dear presidents of the nine Amazonian countries and to all world leaders that…
The government’s high-profile commitment to renewable energy could bring a decade of opportunities for young people.
The Hywind offshore windfarm stands 15 miles off the coast of Peterhead, and…