Climate Change

Republican U.S. representatives heading to U.N. climate talks in Egypt plan to discuss developing critical minerals used in everything from nuclear energy and electricity transmission to batteries for electric vehicles, the head of the delegation said on Wednesday.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday called out next month's United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being "held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights."

Another concern may be that most of the attention obtained by radical actions is not about the issue, focusing instead on what the protesters did.

Setting a date to phase out gas-powered vehicles could remove "cheap cars" from the market, putting ownership out of reach for many, and be politically dangerous, the board chair of German automaker BMW Oliver Zipse said on Wednesday.

Members of the group Just Stop Oil also staged a sit-in protest on Park Lane where the sports carmaker's store is located in an exclusive area of the British capital.

A new study has said that Mars was once habitable and the ancient microbes that once lived in its environment caused their extinction themselves.

The use of cheap carbon offsets by companies to meet net zero targets could curb their efforts to cut emissions and slow the delivery of climate goals, Britain's climate change advisers said on Thursday.

The "megadrought" being witnessed by much of the US Southwest has forced rivers and lakes to run almost dry.

The energy security crisis caused by the war in Ukraine and disrupted access to Russian gas has sparked fears that countries will fall back on dirty fuel sources like coal.

More than a dozen calves wait at a research farm in New Zealand to be fed Kowbucha, a punnily named probiotic that studies show reduces burps -- or methane emissions.

Aviation needs to accelerate the use of biofuels before new technologies like hydrogen and electric-powered aircraft become viable to limit emissions as demand for travel will not abate, the boss of Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday.

Food giant Nestle pledged on Tuesday to spend over 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.01 billion) by 2030 on efforts to source coffee sustainably, more than double its previous pledge, as challenges linked to climate change pose particular risks for the bean.

About 90 heads of state have confirmed attendance at November's COP27 climate negotiations in Egypt where they will address issues including energy transition and food security at opening sessions, a senior Egyptian official said on Monday.

More than 200 whales were found stranded on a remote coast of Australia's island state of Tasmania earlier this week.

At least 458 children have died as a result of the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, accounting for nearly one-third of the total fatalities recorded so far.

The authorities have declared a drought for the whole of Wales despite the country witnessing heavy rainfall over the last few days.

Floods caused by Typhoon Hinnamnor have battered South Korea and have led to a significant loss of lives and property.

A half-paralysed polar bear with several gunshot wounds to its body was found lying in a ditch.

A major study by scientists and Indigenous organisations has claimed that parts of Amazon forests may not be able to recover ever again.

Gone in 30 years? The Welsh village in crosshairs of climate change

Across the entire UK -- which also includes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland -- it was provisionally the fourth warmest summer.

The failure to agree a unified statement came at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change.

Global warming, the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have driven energy prices to rise by 39.7% this year alone.

With the heatwave, the drought, the cost-of-living crisis and now a shortage of pumpkins, the troubles for Brits do not seem to end anytime soon.

Fossil fuels causing cost-of-living crisis: climate expert

HSBC has hired Justin Wu as its first co-head of climate change Asia Pacific to lead the development and implementation of the bank's sustainability strategy in the region, a memo to staff seen by Reuters showed.

More than 1 million species are at risk of extinction, and several others have already disappeared.

Climate activists will stage a series of colorful protests at the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole central banking conference that starts Thursday, intent on pressing the Fed to address climate change and move the U.S.

An elephant ripped its handler in half after being made to continue to work in the hot weather at a rubber plantation.

High temperatures coupled with low rainfall may result in Germany's five alpine glaciers disappearing within a span of 50 years