Leaders of the world's biggest economies must send a clear signal on the need to tackle global warming, COP29 climate summit host
November 18, 2024
Formula 1 will move the Canadian Grand Prix to a new slot in May from 2026 in an effort to cut down on travel and its environmental impact
November 18, 2024
Funding for a climate-friendly farming effort led by the U.S. and United Arab Emirates has reached $29.2 billion, the countries announced on Monday at the COP29 climate
November 18, 2024
A deal at the COP29 climate talks on trading carbon credits could see billions of dollars move into emissions-reduction projects this decade but
November 18, 2024
Trump might nix America as a climate tech leader. 5 charts show China winning that race
November 18, 2024
After a year of canceled projects, broken turbines, and abandoned lease sales, the global offshore wind industry no longer has much chance to hit the
November 18, 2024
United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a deal that could see developing countries get more money to spend on clean energy and adapting to climate-charged weather extremes
November 18, 2024
As leaders and negotiators grapple with big questions of money and power, youth COP attendees and activists from around the world grapple with their own questions about how much their voices matter
November 18, 2024
Typhoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms
November 18, 2024
Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season
November 18, 2024
Toxic smog engulfed much of northern India on Monday and pollution readings in New Delhi hit their highest of this pre-winter season, after dense fog overnight.
November 18, 2024
U.S. officials are proposing increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest under changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades
November 17, 2024
Biden makes first presidential visit to the Amazon as incoming Trump administration poses a threat to climate fight
November 17, 2024
India said on Sunday that it would tighten restrictions including on construction activities and vehicle movements in New Delhi and surrounding areas from Monday
November 17, 2024
‘Everything’s getting weird’: New Yorkers have experienced tornadoes, an earthquake, and an extreme fire season this year
November 17, 2024
Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20
November 17, 2024
Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, flagging the dangers of global warming often dismissed by
November 17, 2024
Bangladesh is battling its worst outbreak of dengue in years, with more than 400 deaths as rising temperatures and a longer monsoon season drive a surge in infections,
November 17, 2024
The world's warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the world's climate goals are slipping
November 17, 2024
Distractions were bigger than deals in the first week of United Nations climate talks, leaving a lot to be done, especially on the main issue of money
November 17, 2024
Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to set foot the Amazon rainforest
November 17, 2024
A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the sixth major storm to pound the Southeast Asian country in less than a month
November 17, 2024
Japanese authorities seeking to reduce the carbon footprint and overcrowding at Mount Fuji will propose a trackless, rubber-tyred tram system made by China's CRRC
November 17, 2024
Diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies struggled on Saturday to overcome differences on paying to tackle climate change, taxing the super rich and
November 16, 2024
Trump picks fracking company CEO Chris Wright as next Department of Energy secretary
November 16, 2024
Tropical Storm Sara has started moving slightly faster after stalling over Honduras, drenching the northern coast of the Central American nation, swelling rivers and trapping some people at home
November 16, 2024
The U.S. utility industry wants the incoming Trump administration and Republican-led Congress to preserve clean energy and EV tax credits in the Inflation
November 16, 2024
Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders to protect their education - and their
November 16, 2024
The U.N.'s climate chief called on leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday to send a signal of support for global climate finance
November 16, 2024
Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest protest day during the two-week talks
November 16, 2024
Not long ago, Polk County’s biggest draw was citrus
November 16, 2024
New Zealand signed a trade deal on Saturday with Switzerland, Costa Rica and Iceland to remove tariffs on hundreds of sustainable goods and services, in a move Wellington says will
November 16, 2024
How drought is ruining Christmas in the Northeast
November 15, 2024
According to recent research from experts at the University of California, Los Angeles and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, higher temperatures brought on by anthropogenic climate change have turned an ordinary drought in the American West into the “exceptional” category, with greater evaporation contributing more than a lack of rainfall. The study, published in Science Advances, found that evaporation accounted for 61% of drought severity in the West from 2020 to 2022, while reduced precipitation contributed 39%. “Research has already shown that warmer temperatures contribute to drought, but this is, to our knowledge, the first study that actually shows
November 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he was creating a National Energy Council to coordinate policies to boost U.S. energy production that will be led by his pick for
November 15, 2024
A New York judge has rejected an effort by state regulators to shutter a bitcoin mine over concerns about its greenhouse gas emissions
November 15, 2024
A group representing major electric vehicle and battery manufacturers on Friday urged President-elect Donald Trump not to kill tax credits for electric
November 15, 2024
Utility regulators in North Dakota have approved part of a carbon dioxide pipeline that would span five Midwestern states
November 15, 2024
Philadelphia students launch pumpkins into farm field to promote composting
November 15, 2024
Lake Lure making major progress clearing lake's debris pile
November 15, 2024
This year's U.N. climate summit is struggling to focus minds on the health of the planet, with turbulent geopolitics, a confrontational host and
November 15, 2024
If you live in a flood-prone area, especially near the ocean, it’s important to know the risks if your EV is flooded. Or your golf cart, e-bike or other device with lithium-ion batteries.
November 15, 2024
A career archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service says managers have been engaging in irresponsible and illegal behavior that has resulted in damage to Native American sites across the forested slopes of North Carolina
November 15, 2024
Urban areas are getting hotter. A startup from one of the world’s hottest cities wants to help
November 15, 2024
Pakistani authorities have declared a health emergency in the country's east due to smog
November 15, 2024
Why Australian zoo is asking Sydney residents to catch deadly funnel-web spiders
November 15, 2024
A group of former leaders and climate experts said the annual U.N.
November 15, 2024
It’s not just Democrats — Republicans are working to Trump-proof their climate money
November 15, 2024
A group of conflict-affected countries is pushing at COP29 to double financial aid to more than $20 billion a year to combat the natural disaster and
November 15, 2024
Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry influence at these climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, called COP29
November 15, 2024
As clean energy infrastructure like solar panels and electric car batteries becomes more common in India, some small businesses are working to recycle them when they reach the end of their lifespan, dismantling panels to sell individual components and using old EV batteries’ remaining power to provide electricity to remote, rural regions
November 15, 2024
A U.S. military watchdog says Navy officials lacked sufficient understanding of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people
November 15, 2024
Any move by the Trump administration to change U.S. climate policy could benefit Australia's ambitions to attract greater investment to its critical minerals and
November 15, 2024
Eligible homeowners in California may receive tax rebates of up to $8,000 to install heat pumps in their residences, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
November 14, 2024
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued the first round of permits allowing Enbridge to reroute an aging pipeline around a tribal reservation
November 14, 2024
Belize issued tropical storm warnings for coastal areas on Friday as Tropical Storm Sara moved through the Caribbean, dousing Honduras’ northern coast with heavy rain
November 14, 2024
Tropical Storm Sara dumps more than 20 inches of rain on parts of Honduras
November 14, 2024
Truck Parking Club mapped Geological Survey data to see which U.S. counties have the most land area at risk of landslides and detailed their impact.
November 14, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that her government would in the coming days present a plan to protect the country's non-genetically modified white corn
November 14, 2024
Manatees along Florida’s coast are eating less seagrass and more algae than they did a few decades ago. This dietary shift could pose a new threat to the survival of the beloved species.
November 14, 2024
Getting aid to countries before the storm or drought hits is one response increasingly being used to limit the damage.
November 14, 2024
The European Parliament sought on Thursday to water down a ban on the import of commodities such as beef and soy linked to deforestation, and backed a one year
November 14, 2024
Bosnian pensioner Vejsil Kajanija has a new routine - every day he walks to inspect large faults in the ground that have appeared since construction began on
November 14, 2024
Adapting to a sea level rise of up to 0.5 metres (1.64 feet) will cost the three most vulnerable Pacific atoll nations nearly $10 billion - equivalent to about 20 years of gross
November 14, 2024
Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most
November 14, 2024
A Brazilian couple that recently moved to Australia were shocked to come home to find a wild koala in their bedroom.
November 14, 2024
Toxic chemical ‘Hall of Shame’ calls out retailers in time for holiday shopping
November 14, 2024
For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get — even as countries gather for another round of talks to curb warming, according to an analysis Thursday
November 14, 2024
The United States foreign food aid program can be a big help when extreme weather fueled by climate change hammers communities
November 14, 2024
Sod-seeking raccoons ravage backyards of Bay Area homes
November 13, 2024
Argentina withdraws delegates from climate summit as Milei heads for Mar-a-Lago
November 13, 2024
Dust storm knocks out power, causes damage across Central Valley
November 13, 2024
Warmer weather confusing birds in Wisconsin
November 13, 2024
Thousands evacuated as parts of Spain hit with nearly a month’s rainfall in one hour
November 13, 2024
US prosecutors demand Google divest Chrome to end search monopoly
Shares in India's Adani Group plunge 20% after US bribery, fraud indictments
North Korea hackers behind 2019 $42 million Ethereum heist, South Korea police say
Former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott dies at age 86
Hungary to install air defence system near Ukraine border
China willing to maintain communication on submarine infrastructure security
Insolvencies in Germany up 22.9% year-on-year in October
What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News?
Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
American and Australian tourists die, raising toll to 4 in Laos alcohol poisoning incident