Global methane emissions have surged, undermining efforts to curb climate change. Human activities continue to drive emissions from fossil fuels, agriculture, and wetlands, pushing warming beyond safe limits. Methane emissions, a major contributor to c...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.

A rare and intense deluge is currently sweeping across the Sahara, one of the driest regions on Earth. While the exact reasons for this unusual rain..

Climate change is important but so are little things that endanger human life like fine particulates that from burning fossil fuels.

Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.

A firefighter has died during a flood rescue in Austria, one person has died in Poland and five have died in Romania, police say.

Storm Boris has caused rivers to burst banks and trapped people in their homes across Austria, Poland and Slovakia

Europe is experiencing a sharp weather shift following the collapse of a persistent heat dome that had brought record-breaking temperatures across the continent in early September 2024.

No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and might never return.

Photo of Harold Gosney’s sculpture of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from Humber Museums Partnership on flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). From left to right, the horsemen are Famine, Disease, Death, and War. The renaming shown above is my own alteration,...

Experts have produced water out of nothing for the first time: They only used solar panels and air to achieve this

Researchers working in the field of agrivoltaics are studying how to combine solar farming with grazing, crop production or ecological restoration.

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

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We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.

Police in The Hague arrested 370 demonstrators when they broke up the Extinction Rebellion protest on the A12 highway late on Saturday afternoon, Dutch media reported. Police began to clear the road shortly after 5pm, when their own protest ended. They...

Climate activists blocked a major traffic artery in the Netherlands on Saturday, the latest in a series of demonstrations against government subsidies on fossil fuels.

An environmental activist who protested mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras in an effort to preserve tropical forests and rivers has been killed, police said on Sunday.

A year after a forest wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service assesses the damage but research shows that's not enough time to map restoration.

Supply and demand models of economists are shown not to work for crude oil. If prices cannot rise, peak crude oil extraction was in 2018. This is far past!

U.S. ultra-low sulfur diesel futures HOc1 fell to a three-year low on Tuesday, dragged down by concerns of weak economic activity which have also deepened a selloff in the broader oil market.

Research suggest data centers will emit 2.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas by 2030

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

Lake Charles has been battered by storms over the past 20 years – and now its most famous landmark lies in ruins

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New Yorkers are spending billions on houses in flood-prone areas despite growing awareness of the effects of climate change.

One of Latin America’s poorest countries faces a wave of claims from foreign investors seeking billions of dollars. Chief among them is an American company looking to build a semi-autonomous “startup city.”

Australia is no stranger to extreme weather. From heat waves and droughts to flooding rains, hailstorms or fire weather, our continent experiences it all.

A dozen years ago, scientists worried that the earth might heat by 4 degrees Celsius by the year 2100, compared with the pre-industrial period, while it now seems more likely that the increase may be around 2.5 degrees or less (which is still deadly and utterly intolerable).

A worrying trend of girls

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Americans have a cumulative net worth of $164 trillion, far surpassing the $20 trillion in debt they hold.

This trend may surprise you, given the attention the public, policymakers, politicians and the media paid to food insecurity at the height of the pandemic.

Billionaires are a symbol of the compulsion of the economic system to expand, but this drive for more has become counter-productive.

Two hospitals sent into lockdown, government buildings shut down and local schools evacuated

By spreading lies about Haitian immigrants, Vance has unleashed a wave of fear, prompting threats and escalating tensions in an already vulnerable Ohio community.

The FBI filed a Stop Camp Grayling protest in a terrorism investigation file — then did physical surveillance on a demonstration.

The town of Vesoloe is the locus of this new invasion.

VLADIMIR Putin’s chief lapdog Dmitry Medvedev has threatened to turn Kyiv into a “giant melted spot” in a disturbing threat. Russia is ramping up its threats after Keir Starmer an…