Environment

US coastlines will face increasing flooding in the mid-2030s thanks to a regular lunar cycle that will magnify rising sea levels caused by climate change, according to research led by…

Smoke billows from the chimneys of Poland’s Belchatow Power Station, Europe’s biggest coal-fired power plant The European Union’s huge policy package to make good on a pledge to reduce net…

Rescue team paddle along flooded cars stuck on the road following heavy rainfalls in Erftstadt, Germany over the weekend The catastrophic floods that swept northwest Europe last week were a…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a news conference to present the EU’s new climate policy proposals European Union policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet…

Our last common ancestor with the octopus existed more than 500 million years ago. So why is it that they seem to show such peculiar similarities with humans, while at…

“Plant more trees” is often the first idea that comes to mind when we think about how to prevent further climate change or at least adapt to its impacts. There…

European Union targets to boost biofuel use are likely to have led to the deforestation of an area roughly the size of the Netherlands over the last decade to expand…

North Macedonia’s parliament has voted to form a national park in the Shar mountains, the UN Environment Programme said on Thursday, in a move conservationists hope will lure the critically…

Chevron Corp’s refinery in Richmond, California As oil and gas majors increasingly tout their green credentials, climate change activists who say such claims are misleading are pursuing a new avenue…

A school of fish swim above a staghorn coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia The Great Barrier Reef should be…