Public health officials and researchers urge the public to cover up outside and clean carefully indoors, but many low-income and disabled residents, and those lacking air...
In a landmark ruling, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court concluded that the government must set limits on human activity, like industrial fishing, to protect marine ecosystems’ natural cycles....
The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that limit global...
Droughts spanning multiple years have become drier, hotter and more frequent over the past 40 years, according to new research. The study, published in Science, finds...
Ahead of a new administration, we revisit the outlook for the largest coal burners and consider how growth in electricity demand is leading to talk of...
The number of governments backing a proposal for a global levy on maritime emissions has grown, according to the head of the United Nations shipping body,...
In the superheated 21st century, the old rules for wildfires no longer apply. John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather,” explains. By Kiley Bense The journalist John...
Nearly 2,000 Florida manatees died in 2021 and 2022. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the sea cows’ plight does not fit the definition of...
Doug Specht is a reader in cultural geography and communication at the University of Westminster. October to April is normally considered to be the wet season...
Flaws in the state’s emergency response system were laid bare by Hurricane Beryl last July. Residents of places like Houston’s Fifth Ward had to fend for...