As tech giants race to build out AI and the sprawling infrastructure it depends on, climate concerns have tended to focus on one thing: power-hungry data centres.Their electricity use is…
After a five-year long legal battle, the Constitutional Court of South Africa has blocked Shell and local partner Impact Africa's permit to explore for oil and gas off the country's…
The world saw the lowest amount of new coal mine capacity brought online for at least 10 years in 2025, according to a new report, as clean energy displaces coal…
Starting on Monday, about 10,000 government negotiators, scientists, journalists and campaigners will gather at a purpose-built venue in a national park in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar to discuss how to stop…
Dr Victoria Harvey is a researcher and senior carbon consultant who focuses on the UK advertising industry.Helen Phillips’ book, ‘Hum’, is set in a dystopian near future, in a city…
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…