Environment

BRUSSELS — Hungary’s Olivér Várhelyi is hoping to win confirmation on Wednesday for another term as European commissioner. Having seen him in action over the last five years, however, European lawmakers...

LONDON — At London’s annual Frieze art fair, attendees trickle into a fake sauna. Inside, a screen shows a person dressed as a pink alien in fuchsia lingerie, gyrating in an...

Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week after it saw “unprecedented” pollution levels, government authorities have said. For days, the city of 14 million people...

King Felipe VI of Spain was pelted with mud and other objects during a visit to the flood-stricken Valencian town of Paiporta on Sunday. The area is among the hardest...

The United Nations COP16 biodiversity talks in Cali, Colombia, were suspended on Saturday after rich countries blocked a proposal to set up a new fund to help poorer nations restore...

Energy advocates are knocking Vice President Kamala Harris for bringing on a top campaign advisor with ties to a controversial environmental group behind the effort to ban gas stoves. O.H....

In October, the German oil tanker “Annika” was towed safely back to the port of Rostock in the after it had caught fire just an hour after its departure. Nobody was injured...

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s new government, led by left-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, will launch a fresh investigation into the handling of the MV X-Press Pearl cargo ship...

More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published by the International...

Could Boris Johnson be our era’s most innovative environmental policymaker? It’s not as ludicrous as it sounds. Back in November 2021 — almost two years after Britain left the European...