Sea levels could rise more than two feet if just this one glacier collapses.
One of the largest, most unstable glaciers in Antarctica is sliding into the ocean. That's due, in large part, to hidden…
Leaked proposal includes carbon sinks provided by trees, soils and oceans in target.
The EU executive has been accused of “cheating” on its 2030 climate plans by proposing to include carbon sinks…
The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organization warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024 – and the risk is…
Study warns sites must be protected in search for materials to build infrastructure.
The mining necessary for producing renewable energy could exacerbate threats to biodiversity, researchers have…
Until recently, microplastics that enter the ocean from paint have not received a lot of attention. There has been very little focus on the fact that unless paint residuals are collected during…
Water seeping into fissures in Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, accelerating rise of sea levels.
British scientists have mapped cavities half the size of the Grand Canyon that are allowing warm ocean…
Climate Action 100+ group put 161 fossil fuel, mining, transport and other big-emitting companies on notice in latest campaign by shareholders.
A group representing investors that collectively…
Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on…
There are more than 14,000 firefighters working across the state to contain around 25 major fires.
California is having a record-breaking year of flames, as dozens of wildfires have set the state…
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
The California governor, Gavin Newsom, said ‘this is not a world that anyone should be experiencing’ as he surveyed charred mountain terrain devastated by wildfires. ‘If you do not believe in science…
U.S. President Donald Trump has undone many major pieces of climate policy during his term,walking out on the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming and eliminating numerous Obama-era…
A new international study that used unprecedented calculations to pinpoint how much global air travel contributes to the heating of the atmosphere found that aviation makes up 3.5 percent of all the…
Friends of the Earth seeks judicial review, saying aid deal contradicts climate commitments.
Environmentalists at Friends of the Earth will mount a legal challenge against the government’s decision…
The secretive way in which plastic recycling is handled in the UK carries the potential for the next big scandal. While the government's statutory guidance is supposed to clarify who is responsible, …
Wind and solar, the country’s cheapest source of new generation, also overlooked
Pakistan risks locking itself into building more power capacity than it needs as a result of over-optimistic energy…