Is action on climate change a human right? A European court will rule for...
Europe’s highest human rights court will rule Tuesday on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The...
Police block Thunberg, marchers in Dutch climate protest
Dozens of police officers, some on horseback, blocked protesters from reaching the A12 arterial highway into the Dutch seaside city
It’s important to demonstrate today because we...
Mexico’s likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate...
The López home kept filling with seawater as the Gulf of Mexico rose and winter storms got worse.
Cristina López and her family decided to leave after one bad...
In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change
Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides after torrential rains hit West Sumatra in early March,...
The ‘Taylor Swift effect’ aims to provide water during Brazil’s life-threatening heat waves
Brazilian climatologist Núbia Beray Armond for years had been sounding the alarm about Rio de Janeiro’s need for an extreme heat plan including water distribution. Interest was tepid until a disastrous Taylor...
Powerful storm in California and Nevada shuts interstate and dumps snow on mountains
A powerful blizzard raged overnight into Saturday in the Sierra Nevada as the biggest storm of the season shut down a long stretch of Interstate-80 in California and gusty winds and heavy...
UN member states are meeting to plan how to tackle the world’s environmental crises
The world’s top decision-making body on the environment is meeting in Kenya’s capital on Monday to discuss how countries can work together to tackle environmental crises like climate change, pollution and loss...
Germany plans to enable underground storage of carbon dioxide at offshore sites
Germany plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgement that time is running out to combat climate change, the country’s vice chancellor said...
An offshore oil spill has caused a ‘national emergency,’ Trinidad and Tobago prime minister...
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister said a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency” as crews struggled to contain the oil already coating...
Storms dump heavy snowfall in northern Arizona after leaving California a muddy mess
Heavy snow shut down parts of major interstates in northern Arizona on Thursday while low-lying clouds delayed dozens of flights in Phoenix, after storms earlier this week battered California and left a muddy...