The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate change. The question is whether he can match the magnitude of the challenge.
If his administration focuses…
The leaders of America’s closest allies have eagerly welcomed the incoming presidency of Joe Biden as a crucial opportunity to face down the unfolding climate crisis, following four years of…
Climate groups plan to camp in Washington DC in protest of Biden’s hires of key staff with connections to the oil and gas industry.
Progressive climate activists plan to occupy the Democratic…
Joel Fitzgibbon’s resignation from Labor’s frontbench has concentrated minds on transition in the Hunter region, but solid plans remain elusive.
Sue Moore, the mayor of Singleton, was eating lunch…
A large landslide caused by torrential rains during Hurricane Eta buried half a small village's residents, leaving the other half searching for family members and neighbors in Guatemala on Tuesday, …
‘It could be that the apparent stability today is hiding a future collapse’.
A rapidly warming climate will spell disaster for swathes of life on earth, including many bird species.
A new study…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Trust caring for world-famous burial ground launches competitions to help conserve area.
Highgate Cemetery, the resting place of renowned figures including Karl Marx and Lucian Freud, is under…
UN warns about consequences of not conserving water and tackling climate crisis.
Water shortages are now affecting more than 3 billion people around the world, as the amount of fresh water available…
Global survey finds spending expected to double in five years in response to climate fears.
Global investors managing nearly $7tn (£5.2bn) of assets plan to almost double their spending on renewable…
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