2017: The Year in Climate
Melting glaciers, wicked hot summers, water crises. These are the climate stories to read from this year. Selected stories from the New...
Climate scientists see alarming new threat to California
California could be hit with significantly more dangerous and more frequent droughts in the near future as changes in weather patterns...
Show these 9 images to your nearest climate-change denier
Donald Trump, and many other influential lawmakers in the United States, still raise questions about the validity of global warming....
Why did climate scientists emit 30,000 tonnes of C02 this weekend?
This weekend, 25,000 Earth, Sun, and planetary scientists from across the US and abroad flew to New Orleans for the annual American...
This tech startup is trying to tackle waste in Africa
Kenya has a waste management problem, especially in the country’s capital of Nairobi. As of 2016, Nairobi was producing around 2,400 tons...
In Africa, the stubborn challenge of malnutrition affects millions
The world produces more food than ever before, yet an estimated 200 million people in Africa lack adequate nutrition, in part due to...
What’s Causing the Sharp Decline in Insects, and Why It Matters
On three occasions from 1989 to 2014, entomologists set up tents in the meadows and woodlands of the Orbroicher Bruch nature reserve and...
Press Release: World commits to pollution-free planet at environment summit
The world today committed to a pollution-free planet at the close of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, with resolutions and pledges...
The most accurate climate change models predict the most alarming consequences, study finds
The climate change simulations that best capture current planetary conditions are also the ones that predict the most dire levels of...
Earth’s climate will warm 15 per cent more than we thought
CHILDREN born now could live to witness the planet warming more than 4°C, even if we cut greenhouse emissions by a fair amount. That’s...