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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…

Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.Recovery would be far harder than after…

Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth…

Bordeaux’s wine industry has historically adapted to consumer habits. In the 1970s the region leaned towards white, but by the 2000s was famed for powerful oak-aged…

January 29, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSvalbard’s polar bears are showing remarkable resilience to climate changeThese polar bears appear to be maintaining their…

January 28, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWeekend winter storm that battered eastern U.S. was supercharged by climate changeA warmer atmosphere can hold more…

The Dutch government discriminated against people in one of its most vulnerable territories by not helping them adapt to climate change, a court has found.The judgment,…

The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending…