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…
Coronavirus and wildfires were already making life very difficult for unhoused people in the Pacific Northwest, and this week’s record-breaking heat wave just made things worse, writes Josh Marcus…
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires and the election of anti-environmentalist president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazilians took to the streets …
It's hard not to think about how hot it's been — even if you live somewhere that has escaped the heat in the past few weeks. When British Columbia clocks temperatures of 121° F, it gets the world's…
Acknowledges need to move to more transparent mechanism developed with stakeholder input
Australia has a growing opportunity to change how we use electricity to make the most of abundant solar in…
A new report released by the Energy Transitions Commission focuses on the need to mobilise buyers to accelerate the demand for net zero steel.
The report was developed in close collaboration with…
Growth in large-scale U.S. solar capacity is projected to exceed that of wind next year for the first time.
That’s according to a report Wednesday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.…