The Latest Breaking News on Climate

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth

Nations remain divided on how to curb plastic production, threatening progress on a landmark global pollution agreement.

As the world's nations strive to agree on a treaty to combat plastic pollution, plastic consumption continues to rise, resulting in the European Union producing about 13.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually from plastics.

Unprecedented temperatures causing difficulties in south-west France, Croatia, Italy and Spain with wildfire destruction across Europe up 87%

Environmental organisations warn that without urgent compromises the session could fail to produce a treaty capable of tackling the scale of the crisis

Excrement contains nutrients needed for crop growth and a new source of them could cut farming’s huge CO2 output

Americans can expect a cold and wet ‘old-fashioned’ winter

Consumers are more environmentally conscious than ever, and we often make purchasing decisions based on a product’s packaging. We choose items that look like they are made from paper or other “eco-friendly” materials, assuming we can simply toss them in the recycling bin. However, many of these products are a…

A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially record surge of flooding toward parts of Juneau in what has become an annual concern for residents