Environment

The proportion of the global population vulnerable to heat related death and disease is growing as a result of climate change’s effects on growing populations of older people, people living in cities, and people with non-communicable...

From Berlin to Cologne, protesters have gathered to demand more from the government in the fight against climate change. Greenpeace said Germany must lead, and that means phasing out coal by 2030. Thousands of protesters gathered...

Residents on a string of coral-fringed islands off Jakarta’s coast are battling a tidal wave of trash, with more than 40 tons of rubbish collected daily over the past week, an official said. Indonesian authorities have...

President Donald Trump said Monday he doesn’t believe his own government’s report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked. “I don’t believe it,” Trump said at the...

The world’s oceans have absorbed more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said Thursday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change. Oceans cover more than two...

The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said Thursday, warning that the time to act was running out. Ahead of the...

The world is not moving fast enough to curb global warming and needs immediate action to address the issue, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an online climate change conference Thursday. Guterres issued the call to arms...

The scientists, for the first time in India, are going to induce artificial rain over Delhi this week to wash away toxic pollutants from the air and provide residents respite from the poor air quality. “If...

Hundreds of climate change protesters blocked London bridges on Saturday demanding a dramatic new environmental policy. Sit-down demonstrators blocked five bridges over the River Thames in the city centre, including Westminster Bridge next to the Houses...

A Brazil appeals court on Friday ordered mining giant Vale to pay two indigenous tribes $26.8 million over river contamination that harmed public health, the prosecutors’ office said Friday. The Onca Puma nickel mine in Brazil’s...