Asset manager tells 30 biggest carbon dioxide emitters in its portfolio to set net zero goals.
Aviva has become the first leading insurer worldwide to set a target to shrink its carbon footprint to…
While the hazards of fracking to human health are well-documented, first-of-its-kind research from Environmental Health News shows the actual levels of biomarkers for fracking chemicals in the bodies…
In a move that may reshape decision and policy-making towards sustainable development, the United Nations adopted a new framework today that includes the contributions of nature when measuring…
The current could slow down to a point of no return, altering the climate on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Gulf Stream — one of Earth's major climate-regulating ocean currents — is moving slower…
China’s first road map to achieving net zero emissions by 2060 may be too slow to stop the world’s biggest polluter from hastening global warming.
Thousands of Chinese delegates applauded when…
In 2020, 821 MW of new wind power capacity was installed in Africa and the Middle East, bringing total capacity in the region to over 7 GW, which helps to avoid 10.7 million tonnes of CO2 emissions…
International Energy Agency data shows steady climb over second half of 2020.
The world has only a few months to prevent the energy industry’s carbon emissions from surpassing pre-pandemic levels…
Analysis by transport group says battery electric vehicles are superior to their petrol and diesel counterparts.
Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than their battery…
Swedish carmaker also says it will sell its vehicles to consumers online only.
Volvo plans to sell only electric cars by 2030 in the latest move by a legacy carmaker to abandon fossil fuels that…
Anj Sharma, 16, and her team hope to force change they say is not coming quickly enough from government.
Eight teenagers and an octogenarian nun head to an Australian court on Tuesday to launch what…
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Sir David Attenborough joined the UK Prime Minister this week at the UN Security Council telling its 15 members that it it is too late to avoid climate change.
Sir David Attenborough said: "There is…
The condor, a vulture threatened by giant wind turbines, may be helped by energy company’s breeding project.
An energy company in California is teaming up with federal wildlife officials and the…
The Catholic leader used the Bible story of Noah to address the potential devastating impacts of increased global heating.
Pope Francis has warned that humanity is facing a “great flood” if the…
Secretary general António Guterres says first assessment of promises amounts to ‘red alert for our planet’.
The first assessment of countries’ pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in the…
Research produces ‘very broad estimate’ of the number of deaths from the 2003 and 2018 UK heatwaves that can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
At least 1,500 heatwave deaths in the UK…