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The world’s largest food company is trying to show it can be environmentally sustainable and still make money. Activists are skeptical.

A hub of renewable energy, packed with solar panels and batteries, or an expanded La Guardia Airport could replace the Rikers jails.

The law aims to get the country in line to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to meet Paris Agreement targets.

Bernie Sanders' plan to tackle climate change would nationalize power plants and end fossil fuels. His supporters are thrilled. Climate experts are not.

Also this week, the carbon footprint of the very, very wealthy

The mayor called for a state of emergency after the Italian city was submerged under “acqua alta,” an exceptionally high tide — the worst in 50 years.

A study from the Lancet points to infectious diseases, worsening air pollution, rising temperatures and even malnutrition as threats to child health as the climate changes. 

Ms. Thunberg, who doesn’t fly, found herself suddenly needing a ride across the Atlantic when United Nations climate talks were moved on short notice.

The country has long been a model for common-sense public policy. But this week’s fires have revealed once again that its pragmatism stops at climate change.

Mr. Bloomberg has been an outspoken voice on gun control and climate change, but his views on taxes would put him on the conservative end of the Democratic field.

The governor and the utility have been fighting for months over a proposed pipeline and a moratorium on new gas hookups.

Here's how the next 20 years are shaping up in terms of energy, and what it means for global warming.

Firefighters warned of dry, windy conditions to come, signaling an early start for what could be the country’s worst fire season in decades.

Temperatures across the country hit record lows on Tuesday morning, prompting some school districts to close and others to delay opening.

Her public art installation at Madison Square Park, opening in June, will focus on the so-called ghost forests that have died off because of climate change.

To persuade some migrating Caspian terns to stop short of the Columbia River, scientists planted plastic decoys and patio speakers in San Francisco Bay.

By interviewing people who live around a forest in Vietnam, scientists captured visual evidence that silver-backed chevrotains still exist.

Cheap and plentiful, they’ve long been a menu staple in New Orleans and beyond. But recent months have brought a crisis that worries fishermen and chefs.

Dozens of blazes, many of them out of control, are burning from the Sydney suburbs to areas hundreds of miles north around Byron Bay.

A new agency rule would restrict the science that can be used in drafting health regulations by requiring researchers to turn over confidential health data.