In 2014, before the Paris climate agreement, the world was on track to heat up nearly 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit)…
Last year, heat-trapping greenhouse gases reached a new record, surging above the planet’s 2011-2020 average, and has continued in 2021,…
The gasoline-powered leaf blower exists in a category of environmental hell all its own, spewing pollutants — carbon monoxide, smog-forming nitrous…
Beginning on Oct. 31, in Glasgow, the now 197 signatories to the Rio treaty will try once again to fashion…
A United Nations global warming conference in Glasgow is considered a crucial moment for efforts to address the threat of climate…
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has determined that a government can, in theory, be held to account for…
Hopes are dimming after a lone coal-state Democrat sounded the death knell for President Joe Biden’s clean electricity program. The…
Scientists are working on solutions to capture and safely contain atmospheric carbon. One approach is called “terrestrial sequestration” — which…
Greenwashing refers to the practice of falsely promoting an organization’s environmental efforts or spending more resources to promote the organization…
More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine…