John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking…
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland's past climate.
The lake formed when northwest Greenland was ice-free, sometime…
Women will gain at least 14 seats in the 117th Congress, setting a new record for female representation.
In 2018, the nation elected 127 women – and 48 women of color – to the House and Senate. Next…
There are approximately over 308 million girls below 18 years on the African continent. While the African Union’s legal and policy framework does refer – patchily – to the rights, interests and…
Evidence is not so much in the number of tropical storms the Atlantic has seen, but in their strength, intensity and rainfall.
Paddling in a canoe through the flood waters left by Hurricane Eta in…
As of late fall, wildfires are still smoldering under snowfall in Colorado. I am hoping that the cold and snowy weather over the last few days will finally put to bed the 2020 fire season in my state…
Carvey Maigue, from the Philippines, used a substance made from crop waste.
A novel material made from rotting fruit and vegetables that absorbs stray UV light from the sun and converts it into…
The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental laws for the past four years.
Odin Energy is lining up projects in Italy and South Korea. Can it find a niche to compete with mainstream wind turbines?
South Korean firm Odin Energy hopes to carve out a new niche with a vertical…
As Boris Johnson eyes a large new nuclear deal as part of his '10-point climate plan', researchers tell Daisy Dunne that such projects could deliver a needed boost to energy supply, but at a high…
Hurricanes are staying stronger for longer after making landfall, causing greater and more widespread destruction, because ocean waters heated by climate change give them extra fuel, according to a…
Carlos Casas’s film – half documentary, half experimental essay – is a near-wordless evocation of a ‘celebrity’ Sri Lankan elephant’s confrontation with death.
New Zealand singer says Donald Trump, Great Thunberg and California wildfires spurred her to visit before it turns ‘to slush’
The singer Lorde has written an impassioned entreaty for the world to…
Experiment put a human in one box, a dog in another and saw which the ticks preferred.
Confining a young researcher in one box and a dog in another and unleashing blood-sucking ticks to scamper…
Industry promotes materialism and lifts sales of climate-harming products, study says.
Advertising needs to be controlled and changed to reduce its impact on the climate, according to a report…
Amid reports that oil industry-friendly former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz remains under consideration to return to his old post in the incoming Biden administration, a diverse coalition of…
Rome — The recent meeting of the G20 - scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic - has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of…
The Tasmania government has declared that it has become the first Australian state, and one of just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide, to be powered entirely by renewable electricity.
In a…
Public accounts committee says ignorance, incompetence and weak oversight to blame.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has a perpetual lack of knowledge about the state and location of…
The Arctic’s record-breaking year is continuing as temperatures in late November are reaching up to 12C higher than averages in the 1990s.
The latest figures, from the University of Maine's Climate…
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