What's a heat dome? Here's why so much of the US is broiling this week
Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week
June 18, 2024Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat this week
June 18, 2024Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual's forestry arm said on Tuesday it agreed to sell 8 million carbon offset credits to Microsoft, the largest-ever sale of such credits.
July 01, 2024Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday
June 18, 2024The U.S. government has acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes
June 18, 2024Residents of the gleaming apartment buildings built atop sand dunes that dot Chile's Pacific coast are expressing mounting concerns for their
June 18, 2024The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing the Nashville crayfish from the endangered species list, but some biologists argue it still needs protection because its range is so limited
June 19, 2024An Alaska man and two police officers have joined forces to rescue a baby moose that got stuck between a floatplane and a dock in a lake
June 19, 2024Australia’s main opposition party says it plans to build Australia’s first nuclear power plants as early as 2035, arguing the government’s policies for decarbonizing the economy with renewable energy will not work
June 19, 2024Surging copper prices this year have brought startling growth in the number of trucks carrying copper from illegal mines in Peru, jamming roads, causing accidents and
July 01, 2024Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Britain's Stonehenge on Wednesday, with orange marks covering some of the stones of the prehistoric megalithic structure on the eve of the
June 19, 2024Greek firefighters appeared close to containing a wildfire near Athens on Wednesday that forced dozens to flee their homes, and authorities now believe the fire was the result of
July 02, 2024Two climate protesters have been arrested for spraying orange paint on the ancient Stonehenge monument in southern England
June 19, 2024With extreme heat gripping much of the Northern Hemisphere this week, authorities and public health experts have issued heat warnings to help
July 02, 2024Canada will ban open-net salmon farms off the coast of British Columbia by the middle of 2029 in order to help protect dwindling wild Pacific salmon populations, the federal
July 02, 2024Global fossil fuel consumption and energy emissions hit all-time highs in 2023, even as fossil fuels' share of the global energy mix decreased slightly on the year,
June 19, 2024The head of Brazil's environmental agency said on Wednesday that he expects a decision soon on state-owned oil company Petrobras' request to conduct exploratory
July 02, 2024Australia's main opposition party wants a sensible debate about nuclear power as it commits to build seven plants to replace coal generation if it
July 02, 2024The heatwave gripping northern India has killed nearly 200 homeless people in New Delhi over the last week, a group dedicated to helping the homeless said on Thursday
June 20, 2024Tropical Storm Alberto, the season’s first named storm, has weakened as it moves inland over northeast Mexico — but not before bringing heavy rains to the parched region and leaving at least three dead
June 20, 2024Sales of new battery-electric cars in the European Union dropped 12% in May from a year earlier, led by a 30% plunge in Germany, data from
July 02, 2024Indonesia's Awyu tribe of the Papua region has filed a case to the Supreme Court seeking to cancel permits for palm oil concessions on thousands of hectares
July 02, 2024A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America
June 20, 2024Fires broke out at two Russian fuel depots on Thursday after suspected drone attacks, officials said, the latest in a series of Ukrainian strikes against Russia's oil industry.
June 20, 2024A species of lynx found in remote areas of Spain and Portugal has rebounded from near extinction, with its adult population growing more than tenfold since the start
July 02, 2024Oil companies around the world last year burned off the most natural gas in five years while also increasing the intensity of the highly polluting practice, a World Bank report found on
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