climate change

HANGZHOU, China—China announced on Saturday that it has ratified the emissions-cutting agreement reached last year in Paris, giving a big boost to efforts to bring the accord into effect by ...

Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat. That parts ...

The best answer to most of the claims by climate activists and their political allies is simply: so ...

In the "Leaders' Statement on a North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership" on June 29, President Obama, Canadian Prime ...

Bernie Sanders' still-impassioned campaign electrified debate over a draft of the Democratic Party's policy positions Saturday, winning concessions ...

We've heard a lot about urgent climate action from "world leaders" in developed countries, yet actual concrete achievements ...

When you cut and burn a tropical forest, you're left with a barren plain of cracked red mud, ...

In Oceania, the dystopian society of George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," a new language was created by the government ...

Some of Earth’s most iconic World Heritage Sites are in peril because of climate change says a UN ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveils energy plan in which he says he will cut funding for the ...

An environmental organization hired by The Trump Organization is using climate change to obtain permission to build a ...

The ice in Antarctica is increasing while ice in the Arctic is decreasing, a study by NASA and ...

A fifth of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction, researchers warned on Tuesday, May 10th, ...

Financial markets are again misunderstanding or ignoring risk, and are certainly underpricing it, both as individual institutions and ...

The United States is polarized and so are members of its major political parties, especially on foreign policy. ...

As the Paris climate deal nears implementation, the possibilities for corporate subterfuge are endless. But the real problem ...

Dried lake beds, failed crops, flattened trees: when we think of global warming we often think of the ...

Leaders and diplomats from more than 160 countries are gathering at the United Nations' New York headquarters on ...

Public opinion polls are regularly cited by politicians and activists to support government action on climate change. Yet ...

The coral on the sea floor around the Pacific island of Kiritimati looked like a boneyard in November—stark, ...

A survey of more than 1,600 Americans suggests there's no magic formula for making it easier to "sell" ...

The WHO stated that 12.6 million deaths annually are consequences of living or working in a polluted environment.

Listening to government officials speak about climate change, one could easily assume that their plans were based on ...

SYDNEY—Earth Hour, conceived in Sydney in 2007 as a one-off community event, is now a global phenomena. On ...

Our cities are getting hotter, more crowded and noisier. Climate change is bringing more heatwaves, placing pressure on ...

White House says Obama and Trudeau aer both young progressive leaders. Here are the issues they agree on ...

The world's climate is already changing. Extreme weather events (floods, droughts, and heatwaves) are increasing as global temperatures ...