Enviro.News

Global warming may pose grave dangers around the world, but as one tiny Russian town on the Arctic Ocean shows, it can also be a ticket to prosperity.

Negotiators were closing in on a deal that could spend around $1.75 trillion, but lawmakers were still haggling over critical disagreements on the sprawling social policy bill.

He has already effectively succeeded in stripping the bill of its most powerful climate change provision.

Diplomats announced a plan to make good on an unkept promise of climate aid, a key point of tension in upcoming global climate talks.

A Financial Stability Oversight Council report could lead to more regulatory action and disclosure requirements for banks.

It wriggles. It pulls. It falls apart and comes back together. It is everything you wish for and everything you fear.

Leaders are weighing a new charge on unrealized capital gains for the ultrawealthy.

The chance to swim with the world’s biggest fish drew tourists to a Philippines town, but conservation groups denounce the hand-feeding that keeps the gentle creatures around.

The 87-year-old conservationist, best known for her work with chimpanzees, has written a hopeful survival guide for Homo sapiens.

Intelligence and defense agencies issued reports warning that the warming planet will increase strife between countries and spur migration.

Carbon sequestration, pollinator habitat restoration and simple composting: An increasing number of the region’s winegrowers are going beyond sustainability. Here’s how to see, and taste, the fruits of their labors.

A former public interest lawyer, she oversaw this and many other documentaries that addressed urgent social issues.

Bateau aims to reinvent the steak restaurant by showing how to sidestep the waste and environmental damage caused by the meat industry.

The new strategy could deeply cut greenhouse gases that are heating the planet but it will still face considerable political, logistical and legal hurdles.

If you’re wondering why scientists and weather forecasters are talking about these phenomena, we have some answers, including how they got their names.

The climate pattern may also bring some relief to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest this winter.

The centerpiece of the president’s environmental agenda has fallen apart because of the objections of a single senator.

With a colleague, he founded a group that quickly analyzes heat waves and other extreme events for signs of global warming’s influence.

As the prospects for strong government action to curb climate change grow less certain, energy shares, and especially coal mining stocks, are generating astonishing returns.

Scientists identified the genes that played a role in many female elephants of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park being born without tusks.