In a new study, scientists found that the climate milestone could come about a decade sooner than anticipated, even if planet-warming emissions are gradually reduced.

The administration says the country must pivot away from fossil fuels but backed a project set to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil each day for 30 years.

The stories we tell ourselves about the future.

Major insurers say they will cut out damage caused by hurricanes, wind and hail from policies underwriting property along coastlines and in wildfire country.

Activities have pushed 7 of 8 planetary boundaries into risk zones, research finds

Food production and other human activities are destroying the very systems they rely on, according to a new study

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era.

Temperatures at the North Pole could approach the melting point as they surge nearly 50 degrees above normal.

Researchers are recording ocean temperatures that pose severe risks to coral reefs and other marine life.

The former BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin has spent his career talking to scientists. Now they’re telling him they’re scared of what they’re seeing

The Ukraine crisis has pushed Europe toward renewables — but will the change come quickly enough?

A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing.

The North Shore Leader was onto his lies months before he was elected in New York.

Critics accused President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration of delaying the release of a report until after the COP26 climate summit, charges the government denied.

These three charts show why carbon emissions are expected to hit another record high in 2022.

“It’s really critical not to be alone with your climate anxiety, terror, grief,” says Margaret Klein Salamon, executive director at the Climate Emergency Fund.

Experts say the number of monarch butterflies at wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began.

Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago

The increase was driven in part by a jump in coal-fired power generation, according to a report from the Rhodium Group.

The effort is the latest by a European country to limit flying’s negative effects on the climate.

Plan by Senate Democrats includes measures lauded by some in the oil-and-gas industry, frustrating GOP lawmakers.

The warming of the waters off the East Coast has brought the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean’s food chain.

Light trucks now dominate U.S. roadways, outnumbering cars among registered vehicles in all 50 states. How did this happen, and is it Gerald Ford's fault?

Measuring and comparing sea surface temperatures is complex, but scientists agree on one thing: A high reading this week is bad news for wildlife.

Officials have warned the death toll is likely to rise as rescue teams reach the hardest hit areas.

Environmental analysis assumes no action on climate change — and extreme warming — to justify freezing fuel standards for autos.

Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.

You can get cotton bags pretty much everywhere. How did an environmental solution become part of the problem?

A summer that really scared scientists.

California has passed a $1,000 tax credit for low-income households that are living car-free.

The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species.

The proposals, expected Wednesday, are likely to be more ambitious and specific than other countries’ efforts to fight climate change and may include a border tax on imports deemed to be polluting.

Trump officials auctioned off oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Wednesday, capping Republicans' decades-long quest to drill in one of the nation's best-known wild places.

Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal rights.

Horseshoe crab blood is used to test vaccines around the world. But while Europe has approved a synthetic alternative, biomedical labs are bleeding more crabs from the Atlantic coast.

A key conservation group counted the continent’s elephants as two species for the first time, highlighting the dire threat to forest elephants.

The animals' eating habits may help cause a dramatic reduction in the amount of carbon stored in some forests, research suggests.

In choosing leaders, our test should be: Will they increase or decrease the extraction of fossil fuels?

2019 has been called the year we woke up to climate change. Australia’s wildfires are yet more evidence that it’s time we started acting like it.

The two naturalists helped to pioneer the field of conservation biology and remained determinedly hopeful that humanity would make better choices.

The successful trip was the first in a series to the edge of space and beyond by billionaire entrepreneurs that seek to make human spaceflight more routine.

Kodiak smashed its previous monthly record by 20 degrees, meanwhile other towns are experiencing anomalous rain.

The Palisades fire, which was 23 percent contained late Monday afternoon, forced the evacuation of 1,000 people and hinted at the severity of the state’s drought.

Joe Manchin and the GOP respond to Putin's war on Ukraine War with "Drill, Baby, Drill." The only problem is that it will cook the planet.

Deaths outnumbered births last year for the first time in six decades. Experts see major implications for China, its economy and the world.

Europe experienced its hottest summer ever, while 2022 was the fifth-hottest year on record worldwide.

"If the Earth System gets into the region of chaotic behavior, we will lose all hope of somehow fixing the problem."

The record-breaking warmth is raising concerns about melting summer ice.

Strategies intended to safeguard forests and homes have instead increased the likelihood that they’ll burn.

A novel idea to leave the country’s vast oil reserves in the ground fizzled for lack of international support. Now, struggling under painful debt, the government wants to expand drilling in the...

Some of the city’s tallest buildings — including Comcast Technology Center and the BNY Mellon Center — plan to participate.

David Malpass touched off a furor, including calls for his removal, when he refused to acknowledge that fossil fuels are warming the planet.

Boston is starting the winter among its least snowy. In Washington, there hasn't even been a snowflake yet.

The latest round of international climate negotiations is being held in a petrostate. What could go wrong?

Environmental destruction and violence threaten one of the world’s most extraordinary insect migrations.