Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today the U.S. has around 43,000…
Wildfires burn millions of acres of land every year, leaving changed landscapes that are prone to flooding. Less well known is that these already vulnerable regions can also intensify and in some…
Models suggest that distortions in polar-vortex winds can send chilly air hurtling southwards. But some climate scientists remain unconvinced.
Recent spells of unusually cold winter weather in the…
Park officials say that Pretty Rocks Landslide has made remote road too dangerous for use
A landslide caused by melting permafrost has closed the only road in Alaska’s Denali National Park.
Livestock companies with large emissions receive billions of dollars in funding, campaigners say
Twenty livestock companies are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than either Germany,…
In 2015, representatives from 196 nations and territories gathered in Paris to create a landmark plan to mitigate climate change. Is it enough?
In 2015, representatives from 196 nations and…
Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world, the Intergovernmental…
Coastal areas in lower latitudes likely to be worst affected
Extreme sea level events will become 100 times more frequent by 2100 across many parts of the world as a result of rising global…
Graphics from a new book show causes and consequences that are hard to detect with the naked eye.
In a new book, Atlas of the Invisible, the geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti…
ShareAction says lack of plans to tackle climate crisis and biodiversity loss casts doubts on banking’s sustainability pledges.
Europe’s 25 largest banks are still failing to present comprehensive…
Environmental activists demand delay to Glasgow climate talks if costs and travel restrictions block attendance of those worst-hit
The Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow should be postponed until the…
Analysis shows future is bleak for fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars of assets at stake
The vast majority of fossil fuel reserves owned today by countries and companies must remain in…
People in India are having their life expectancy cut by as much as nine years because of increasing air pollution, according to a new report by a US research group.
At least 480 million people in…
Conservations call for the impacts of climate change to be considered more closely.
North Atlantic right whales are now a critically endangered species after the population plummeted due to warming…
Lizard species placed on endangered list
The world’s largest lizard is in danger of extinction as rising water levels are shrinking its natural habitat.
‘We’re not sure what the other ecological consequences of these changes are’, scientist warns
Climate change could be causing animals around the world to grow larger ears, beaks and tails, according…
Swiss scientists develop prototype ‘nanogenerator’ that produces renewable energy when trodden on
Scientists have developed technology that can turn footsteps into electricity.
By tapping into an…
Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised.
The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide…