Environmental groups have welcomed Joe Biden’s invoking of national security powers to rapidly expand the production of clean energy technology as a significant advance in the effort to curb…
It was a stunning, grisly act. A man, a climate activist and Buddhist, had set himself on fire on the steps of the US supreme court. He sat upright and didn’t immediately scream despite the agony.…
Heating of the atmosphere, due to the burning of fossil fuels, is seemingly upending a process that long appeared unshakeable.
The arrival of spring has seemingly immutable rituals – lengthening…
Centrist Democrat, who holds key swing vote in US Senate, has poured scorn on the idea of phasing out gasoline and diesel cars.
Faced with rising gasoline prices, many Americans are now looking to…
Roberts suggests states could claim harm from laws not yet enacted
Several conservative justices on the US supreme court signaled on Monday that they may be willing to restrict the federal…
Temperatures in 499 counties across west, north-east and upper midwest US have already breached 1.5C (2.7F)
More than a third of the American population is currently experiencing rapid, above-…
Planet-heating emissions rose by 6.2% compared with 2020
Rise largely down to increase in cars and trucks on the road
Planet-heating emissions roared back in the United States in 2021, dashing…
Last year was sixth hottest ever recorded, scientists find
World ‘warmer now than at any time in the past 2,000 years’
Nearly a quarter of the world’s population experienced a record hot year in…
Trump’s energy department blocked a rule intended to phase out less efficient bulbs. Now Biden plans to move forward, slowly
The Biden administration has moved to reverse the depredations endured…
At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined
The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently…
Thanks to climate change, armadillos, native to southern America, are making their way up north. And there’s no sign of them stopping their relentless march
by Oliver Milman in Sapphire, North…
Critics call the ‘carbon-negative’ drink a distraction but makers say it points a way forward to tackling the climate crisis
The disastrous consequences of the unfolding climate crisis is enough to…