Environment

Russian officials are scrambling to clean up an oil spill in a region in northern Siberia, after an oil leak that began at the end of May was found to...

The COVID-19 outbreak is a global tragedy. Hundreds of thousands have died, healthcare systems are buckling, and the future is uncertain for millions of people whose livelihoods are collapsing. It...

Gas stations in Germany will be required to provide charging for electric vehicles as part of the country’s €130 billion coronavirus stimulus package, Reuters reports. In addition, the government is...

Single-use plastics are now banned from Kenya’s beaches, national parks, forests and conservation areas as part of efforts to curb pollution. Explore dynamic updates of the earth’s key data points...

On June 5, 1972, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Stockholm for a landmark United Nations conference, the first-ever to focus on the environment. Some key decisions were made there...

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached their annual peak last month, and once again were the highest in human history. Despite the economic collapse resulting from the coronavirus...

Black birders took to Twitter this week in response to a viral video showing a white woman calling the police on a black man, Christian Cooper, who asked her to...

A British lawmaker has written to HSBC Holdings Plc’s chief executive, saying the global lender’s decision to back Beijing on its proposed security laws for Hong Kong is causing alarm....

FERROL, Spain — A strange-looking contraption that could represent a new frontier in clean energy wallowed in the water alongside a coal dock here in a bay in northwest Spain....

HULL, England — At first glance, the workers appeared to be practicing for a circus act. In a cavernous space, they took turns gingerly climbing a ladder to a narrow...