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The Trump administration has dismantled the basis for all US climate regulations, in its most confrontational anti-environment move yet.The 2009 endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases…

It’s a mind-blowing idea: an economic model of the world in which every company is individually represented, making realistic decisions that change as the economy changes.…

In China, sources of electricity that don’t involve fossil fuels — which includes solar, wind, hydropower, nuclear and biomass energy — have grown by 2.8 times…

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.Continued global heating could…

After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes…

In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to…

As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors to sue major polluters for their role…

Bank chairs who water down their lenders’ climate commitments this year could face embarrassing shareholder revolts as campaigners try to hold bosses to account for environmental…

Amid rising concern about global heating and soaring energy costs, Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises – a move experts have hailed…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Watching the Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes…