UN carbon market forces cookstove projects to protect against forest loss
Cleaner cooking projects in the UN carbon market will have to set aside a share of their credits to insure against the risk that the...
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Critical Minerals, New Energy Sources and the Race for Resilience
At a Climate Week symposium, Columbia Engineering convened members of government, industry and academia to examine critical mineral supply chains and emerging energy sources.
Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit
Print article Share Next week, diplomats from around the world will descend on Yerevan, Armenia, to negotiate a series of decisions under the UN Convention...
A once-in-a-generation opportunity for California's ocean
The ocean surrounding California’s Channel Islands can feel like another world. Beneath the surface sway towering kelp forests that are patrolled by huge sheephead fish,...
IPCC Opens Sixty Fifth Plenary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 12 – The Sixty-Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. IPCC member governments...
Thousands of Handwritten Records Reveal Scale of Warming in the Congo
The Congo Basin is one of the few places on Earth where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to track the long-term shift...
Building a stronger future on our own terms: Indigenous-led resilience and recovery
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IPCC Chair Jim Skea's remarks during the opening of the 65th Session of the IPCC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12 October 2026 Thank you, Ko, especially as you serve in a dual role at this plenary: interim Secretary of the IPCC...
Food for Feed
This week, co-host Jake Bolster takes a deep dive into the global seafood industry with reporter Johnny Sturgeon and the Outlaw Ocean Project.By Jake Bolster,...
How a Bid to Beat Drought Drove Corpus Christi to the Brink of Disaster
What started as a novel plan to build a desalination plant supplying plentiful water to the oil and gas industry has landed the Texas city...
The Fishfeed Trap
The livestock industry’s search for more sustainable alternatives to fishmeal has gone nowhere.By Ian UrbinaThis story is part of an investigation conducted by an international...
Governments that support climate science must stand firm against naysayers
Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change and Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. He has previously...
NASA captures a stunning transformation in Australia's red outback
Australia’s normally dry, rust-colored outback has erupted into a spectacular carpet of wildflowers after unusually heavy rains, potentially producing its most impressive bloom in nearly...
Total fire ban for Sydney, with 37C temperatures and risk of bushfires from 'dry lightning'
Thunderstorms coupled with hot and dry conditions mean ‘fire danger is going to be right up today’, Rural Fire Service saysFollow our Australia politics live...
NASA spots a giant patch of Moon-like rock on Earth
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a remarkable formation in Madagascar that looks surprisingly similar to the Moon’s bright highlands. Made of anorthosite,...
In New Mexico, a river runs through 'the middle of a hellscape'
It’s an early May afternoon, and Charlie Barrett has parked his pickup in a pullout along a county road a few hundred feet from the...
'Some aren't going to make it': how pressure on farmers threatens UK food security
Food producers are adding their voices to the chorus of warnings about the vulnerability of British supply chains’There are so many decent, capable, productive, efficient...
The Greek National Park Suffocated by Fish Farming
Greece’s $900 million aquaculture industry is sacrificing sea life as it slowly strangles one of Europe’s most important marine sanctuaries.By Johnny SturgeonThis story is part...
The Race for Lithium Is Becoming a Race for Water
In the arid American West, expanded mining intensifies battles in vulnerable communities over one of the region’s scarcest resources.By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt...
As Rival Resorts Battle in a Bahamas Court, a Threatened Conch's Nursery Is Caught in the Middle
Scientists who study conch say the species’ habitat needs are more important than the needs of either property.By Kate WaxmanQueen conch larvae drift for two...
'We need less point scoring': What party conference season taught us about UK climate action
Tories plan to scrap low-carbon housebuilding, Greens back new nuclear reactors, and Labour put oil-drilling decisions on holdNew homes could be built without solar panels,...
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each existsHumans could become extinct by the year...
Fifty billion seedlings: Can Ethiopia replant its ravaged forests?
Niku Argane’s farm sits on a steep hillside in central Ethiopia’s semi-mountainous Gurage Zone, where years of flooding have carved deep gullies through the land....
Dozens injured and buildings damaged as tornadoes hit Sicily
Marsala on island’s west coast badly affected after powerful storm approached from MediterraneanTwo tornadoes have struck the coastal town of Marsala in western Sicily, injuring...
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