A new draft text to revive deadlocked UN plastics treaty talks does not include specific measures on managing runaway plastic production, a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, drawing criticism…
Layers of red dust coat South Africa's Saldanha Bay, a legacy of the one billion-plus tonnes of iron ore exported from what was once a quiet coastal fishing town in…
Steven Stone is acting director of the United Nations Environment Programme's Office of Science In 1934, American economist Simon Kuznets presented a paper to Congress advocating for a new way…
Amira Odeh Quiñones is a hydrologist and Caribbean organiser for the 350.org climate campaign groupEl Niño, likely to be one of the strongest in modern history, has arrived on Caribbean…
About a quarter of the countries signed up to the Paris Agreement are still breaching its rules by failing to submit a new national climate plan, 18 months after the…
China's use of coal for electricity grew in the first half of 2026 as a record amount of wind and solar power was wasted through curtailment, new research has found.The…
Bemnet Agata is a communications officer at the Tax Justice Network, where Alison Schultz is a research fellow.We are entering an age of permanent volatility.Climate change is making extreme weather…
Leaders of the Santa Marta coalition – a group of governments, businesses and civil society organisations seeking to transition away from fossil fuels – hope it can withstand the loss…
When heavy storms triggered a fault on a major power line in Indonesia’s Sumatra in late May, blackouts plunged homes and businesses across the island into darkness, leaving millions to…