This year, new wind and solar will more than meet growing power demand globally, keeping fossil fuel consumption flat, analysts project.

National climate plans focus too much on “unrealistic” tree-planting schemes and too little on protecting existing forests, experts warn.

The International Energy Agency continues to project that demand for fossil fuels will peak before 2030, if countries push forward on their climate goals.

For 18 months, China’s emissions have been trending down as renewables displace coal and EVs supplant gas-powered cars. That is the finding of a new analysis, which comes as China takes center stage at the U.N. climate negotiations now underway in Brazil.

Analysis: China is not only powering the shift to clean energy, but becoming a driving force in climate diplomacy, filling a vacuum left by the U.S. and E.U. As U.N. climate negotiations get underway, China is staking its claim to the leadership role.

A new study reveals how a tiny desert shrub manages to thrive in the searing heat of Death Valley, California. The findings could help scientists engineer more heat-resistant crops.

For the fourth year in a row, the world is projected to add a record amount of wind and solar. Countries appear on track to reach an international goal to triple global renewable capacity by 2030, analysts say.

Last year Brazil saw its biggest drop in emissions in 15 years, new data show. Analysts credit the decline to a crackdown on the illegal clearing of forest.

Russian attacks have produced more than a billion tons of debris across Ukraine. Efforts are underway to recover concrete, metal, bricks, and wood from the rubble and reuse these materials in new buildings and roads.

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The climate outlook has improved dramatically in the decade since the Paris Agreement, a report finds. Still, the world remains far off track from its goal of keeping warming under 2 degrees C.

One of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, Hurricane Melissa has killed dozens of people and inflicted billions of dollars in damage. Warming made the deadly hurricane four times more likely, a new analysis finds.

Brazil is set to unveil an investment fund that would channel billions of dollars yearly to countries that safeguard tropical forests. Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.

Glowing scale worms and a “death ball” sponge are among the dozens of new creatures discovered in the Southern Ocean.

Since 1990, China has added more than 170 million acres of forest, an area roughly the size of Texas, according to a new U.N. report.

With lawmakers still at an impasse over spending, the U.S. government remains shut down. Researchers warn that during the last shutdown, pollution from coal power plants spiked in the absence of federal oversight.

Clean tech firms have scrapped $24 billion in planned projects across the U.S. this year, from solar farms to battery plants to EV factories. The canceled projects would have created more than 20,000 jobs, most of them in Republican districts.

Offshore wind had been poised to take off on the East Coast, with about 30 large farms planned. But as the Trump administration pulls support for the industry, most of those projects have been abandoned.

The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.

Iceland, one of the last places on Earth to be mosquito-free, recorded its first sighting this month. Scientists say warming is making the country more hospitable to the insects.

Warming made the devastating L.A. wildfires twice as likely and 25 times larger, according to a new report.

In Southeast Asia, heavy pollution is suppressing rainfall over land while intensifying it over the ocean.

As a tenuous ceasefire takes hold in the Gaza Strip, an analysis of satellite imagery reveals 95 percent of cropland has been damaged in the course of the war.

Jaguars are recovering in Mexico and could soon return to the Southwest. But work on the border wall may stop the big cats from making a comeback in the U.S.

Despite an international pledge to halt the destruction of forests by 2030, the world continues to lose around 20 million acres a year, an area roughly the size of Ireland. A new report warns that forests globally "remain in crisis."

Scientists say that warming has breached a critical threshold for coral reefs, threatening catastrophic losses in the years ahead.

The E.U. is mandating the treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are pushing back.

African nations have made little progress on the "Great Green Wall," a 5,000-mile-long band of trees aimed at halting the advance of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows.

For the first time, renewables are generating more power globally than coal. But in the U.S., where the Trump administration is dismantling support for clean energy, renewables are expected to grow half as fast as previously thought.

While the headlines paint a dismal picture of efforts to rein in warming, the numbers often tell a different story. In an interview, data scientist Hannah Ritchie talks about where she sees the world gaining ground in the climate fight.

In Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, solar power is taking off in rural areas as the cost of running diesel generators soars.

In her last interview before she died, Jane Goodall issued an urgent call to safeguard the Earth, warning that "humans are not exempt from extinction.”

Five homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks collapsed into the sea Tuesday, as Atlantic hurricanes stirred up coastal waters. The Outer Banks have seen 17 seaside homes destroyed since 2020.

Summer floods in Pakistan have killed a thousand people and displaced millions more. As warming supercharges monsoon rains, scientists say that Pakistan is more vulnerable to climate change than any other nation.

Sea life is thriving on sunken ships and unexploded bombs that were discarded after World War I and II, new research finds.

A review of hundreds of studies finds that plastic additives pose a serious threat to children, raising the risk of disability and disease long into adulthood. Plastics are associated with heart disease, obesity, asthma, and autism, among other issues.

In a warming India, cases of chronic kidney disease are on the rise among otherwise healthy people. The disease is particularly prevalent in outdoor workers who lack access to water, shade, or rest.

Clean energy jobs grew three times faster than the rest of the economy last year. But growth slowed markedly compared to the previous year as clean tech firms braced for a shift in U.S. energy policy.

Under Trump, new liquefied natural gas terminals are moving ahead, with exports expected to double by 2030. But as the U.S. pressures trade partners to buy more natural gas, analysts warn of the looming risks of an LNG boom.

Extending power lines to reach far-flung customers can be costly and a fire hazard, so some utilities are building remote grids using solar and batteries. via @canarymedia.com

The retreat of the Alsek Glacier in Alaska has created a new island.

A report finds the Republican spending bill will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade. via @wired.com

Explosive hurricanes and searing wildfires are pushing U.S. insurers to the limit, upending housing markets, and even reshaping the makeup of some communities. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Gil Gaul reports:

Western wildfires have produced massive plumes of smoke that clouded eastern skies. But a new study finds that heat from fires is also reshaping weather in ways that are curbing pollution on the East Coast.

In a new interview, journalist Saabira Chaudhuri explains how the plastics industry persuaded consumers to embrace disposability — no matter the costs.

Some U.S. stores are selling illicit meat from endangered sharks under false labels, an investigation finds.

Equipped with cheap Chinese solar panels, many developing countries are leapfrogging the U.S. in the shift to clean energy.

Ahead of a major biodiversity summit set for Armenia, the country is cracking down on the practice of keeping wild bears in captivity. Rescuers are freeing Syrian brown bears from hellish conditions and bringing them to a rehab center.

Warming made the hot, dry weather that gave rise to recent wildfires in Portugal and Spain 40 times more likely.

Even as the U.S. guts support for renewables, the world is still pushing ahead on solar, with installations up 64 percent in the first half of this year.