If policies promoting net zero emissions by 2050 are adopted 250,000 jobs would be created and $680bn added to the economy.
Australia’s economy will be 6% smaller, there will be 880,000 fewer jobs…
Exclusive: The amount of land burning at ‘high severity’ is also accelerating due to climate change, researchers say.
The number of severe forest fires across the western US has increased eightfold…
The outskirts of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is under siege by swarms of locusts that officials fear will ruin vegetation and potentially impact tourism.
The locusts arrived outside Mogadishu on…
In wake of Covid, leading figures call for bold green measures to boost economy.
World leaders are running out of time to forge a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, with only a year to go…
Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf experienced its highest rate of melting since records began 40 years ago from 2019-2020, a new study has found.
The unprecedented melt at Larsen C, which is…
President-elect Biden can restore many of the 100-plus environmental regulations that President Trump rolled back, but much of the damage to the climate cannot be reversed.
WASHINGTON — President-…
Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash. Until humanity admits it has failed to tackle the climate crisis and begins…
Oil giant accused of gaslighting after asking users: ‘What are you willing to change?’
A climate poll on Twitter posted by Shell has backfired spectacularly, with the oil company accused of…
New analysis commissioned by the UN-supported Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), predicts that technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere could create trillion dollar upside…
Switzerland is in the process of completely revising its CO2-Act, its key piece of climate change legislation. The current draft is stronger than the version that the National Council failed to adopt…
With demand and share prices dropping, Europe’s fossil fuel producers recognise that peak oil is probably now behind them.
Ayear ago, only the most ardent climate optimists believed that the world’s…
Soils could release equivalent of four times China’s emissions over past century, scientists warn.
Soil is a huge, but little-recognised, carbon storage facility.
WASHINGTON: Joe Biden vowed Wednesday that the US would rejoin the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House, hours after the withdrawal ordered by Donald Trump took effect.
"Today,…
With so many votes cast for Trump in US election, some researchers conclude they must work harder to communicate the importance of facts, science and truth.
As the possibility of a landslide victory…