Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. Maurice Tamman explains why calling these events 'heat waves' no longer makes sense and how…

India’s southern state of Kerala on Monday asked fishermen not to venture near the site of an accident where a container ship carrying hazardous car…

For eight years a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists o…

Russia declared a regional state of emergency in Crimea, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand on either side of the Kerch Strait following an…

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement, with more than 100 nations wanting to cap production wh…

The UN's weather monitoring body said that greenhouse gases have been accumulating in the atmosphere ‘faster than any time experienced during hum…

A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme warns of billions of dollars worth of damages through biodiversity loss, climate change and …

Earth’s average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Global temperatures last year were around 2.…

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fueling more destru…

New Delhi was wrapped in a thick layer of toxic haze and some schools were ordered closed as the air quality index plummeted to the ‘severe’ category…

Using large drones and millions of seeds, UAE's energy company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, is hoping to accelerate its forestation program i…

World leaders meeting at the United Nations warned of the peril the world faces unless it acts with urgency to rescue a set of 2030 development goals…

Indonesia's capital Jakarta topped the list as the world's most polluted city, having consistently ranked among the 10 most polluted cities g…

Japan is set to begin pumping out more than a million tons of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant this summer, a p…

Reuters | Temperatures are now more likely than not to head over the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold in the next five years, though not year on year. T…

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres urged rich nations to accelerate their shift to ‘net zero’ emissions, after a new assessment from scientists warned there…

The European Parliament formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming t…

Israel built a chain of desalination plants along its Mediterranean coast putting it in the unlikely position of having a surplus of water, a bright …

England will ban a range of single-use plastic items from October 2023, in an effort to limit soaring plastic pollution.

Deforestation in the world's most biologically diverse savanna, the Brazilian Cerrado, rose by around 25% in the 12 months through July from the …