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SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way.”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Companies selling shampoo, food and other products wrapped in plastic have a decade to cut down on their use of the polluting material if they want their wares on California store shelves.

Billionaires, politicians and philanthropists say sucking carbon out of the air and storing it underground could stem climate change. Critics fiercely disagree.

Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged

Ban on manufacture and import of six popular types of items will begin in December 2022, and sales a year later

A new report arrives at a stark conclusion that the world's growth of plastic waste will nearly triple by 2060 if no intervening action is taken.

The Flatiron District-based startup has kept an estimated 3 million tons of furniture out of landfills 

NEW YORK (AP) — It's often said that fans at live concerts give the band a jolt of electricity. Coldplay wants to literally harness that. The pop superstars have added kinetic dance floors and energy-storing stationary bikes to their latest world tour, encouraging fans to help power the show as they dance or spin.

Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns

Ben & Jerry’s Project Mootopia will use regenerative agricultural tactics and new technologies to boost the brand's efforts to take on climate change.

With a nudge from Green Century, CVS recently announced its goal to reduce virgin plastic in its store-brand packaging by 50 percent by 2030.

This company says its new technology can curb climate change with its method of isolating carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in the world's oceans.

See what role personal actions play in reducing emissions.

The problem with trees is that they are too slow.

Carbon removal is no substitute for reducing climate pollution. But it is now a necessary tool to keep temperatures in check.

Symbrosia, a U.S.-based startup that aims to reduce livestock methane emissions through its seaweed feed additive, has raised $7 million in new funding, its chief executive told Reuters on Thursday.

Researchers outline how utilizing AI can help meet climate goals

NEW YORK (AP) — The sleek four-wheeled carts look familiar enough, but not even UPS knows precisely how to describe what could be the delivery giant's latest way to get packages to your door. UPS unveiled Tuesday a battery-powered, four-wheeled cycle to more efficiently haul cargo in some of the world's most congested streets and to reduce its carbon footprint.

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany raided the offices of Deutsche Bank and its subsidiary DWS on Tuesday following claims that it was exaggerating the sustainable credentials of some of the products it sold.

The start-up Running Tide wants to use kelp buoys to fight climate change. The plan might not work, but it’s still a preview of our climate future.

A legal agreement announced today will give the agency nine months to assess the risks associated with polyvinyl chloride, more well known as PVC.

Ben & Jerry's Puts Cows on a Special Diet to Curb Methane Emissions, Using a Seaweed Additive to Reduce Burps.

Learn which 10 rivers are the country’s most endangered waterways.

Ben & Jerry's, Straus Family Creamery, and Clover Sonoma have signed deals to begin using a natural seaweed supplement for their cows as they move to dramatically cut the greenhouse gas footprint of their farm operations.

A river otter has been spotted in the Detroit River for the first time in a century.