The IPCC's forthcoming special report on climate change and cities has more women than men on its authorship team, for the first time ...

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa urged the Group of 20 (G20) nations to set aside their differences and focus on tackling global challenges ...

China’s solar and windfarms would no longer be guaranteed sales at a fixed price linked to coal benchmarks, under a new policy released by the central government. The policy asks local governments to ...

According to the “most comprehensive scientific analysis to date”, the world’s glaciers are melting faster than “ever recorded under the impact of climate change”.

Digital sequence information, or “DSI”, refers to the genetic information derived from biodiversity. Public and private databases – headquartered mainly in the global north – often source this genetic ...

Freshwater, essential for ecosystems and human well-being, is becoming increasingly scarce. Population growth, urbanisation ...

As shown in the chart below, China’s new or resumed construction of coal-power plants declined steadily from 84.3GW in 2015 to 32.1GW in 2021. However, it has since risen from 2022, driven by a wave ...

In a continuing slew of stories being generated by the Trump administration’s attempts to destroy US climate-focused policies, Bloomberg reports ...

“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that play a major role in holding back rapidly retreating glaciers.

A top US federal prosecutor has quit after declining a request from Donald Trump-appointed staff to investigate Joe Biden’s climate spending.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says in a new report, that “global electricity use is forecast to rise significantly in the coming years ...