Environment

Ships visiting Southern California’s bustling ports are poised to become the region’s largest source of smog-causing pollutants in coming years, one reason state regulators want to reduce emissions from thousands...

Wildfires, droughts, floods, heat waves, warming seas and melting ice ― it was a year dominated by stories of the unfolding climate crisis. The science is telling us loud and...

Australians have begged for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to lead the country instead of Scott Morrison after announcing she will send more firefighters to help with Australia’s bushfire...

The last year has been a busy one for Greta Thunberg, who turns 17 on 3 January—just a few days after the clocks chimed in the new year. In 2019,...

It’s the best of times and the worst of times to be a diplomat in the United States. Under Donald Trump’s presidency, the predictability craved by ambassadors is gone. But...

The solar power and electric vehicles we need to stop the climate crisis pose a different threat to people and the environment: a boom in mining. Moving away from fossil...

After a slow start to California’s wet winter season, a series of storms that hammered the state at the tail end of 2019 dumped enough snow on the Sierra Nevada...

Britain’s Prince William this week launched a multi-million-pound prize to encourage the world’s greatest problem-solvers to find answers to Earth’s biggest environmental problems, saying the planet was now at a...

The phrase “out with the old and in with the new” is not as applicable in an era where fashion brands are trying to move toward sustainability. Sustainability was the...

Mediterranean egrets balancing on the backs of cows, multicoloured moths the size of a human hand, and impossibly exotic bee-eaters hawking for insects under English skies. All are here as...