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A new platform aims for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while benefiting unions and fossil fuel workers.

Cities around the world have been at a standstill, trying to stop the spread of COVID-19. But with lockdown measures gradually lifting, places like Brussels are trying a new climate-friendly approach to mobility.

The coronavirus reveals in stark terms the limits of our personal choices to affect climate change.

Real hope for the future of the climate can’t come from admiring the inspirational deeds of others – it has to be earned, writes Diego Arguedas Ortiz.

Builders will be forced to take climate change, including rising sea levels, into account to win government approval for projects.

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Researchers found that the oceans are dramatically changing due to climate change, the latest evidence of a warming world.

The European Union is forging ahead with a sweeping plan to become “climate neutral” by midcentury.If implemented, the European Green Deal could mark a major advance in the effort to combat climate change, since EU members make up the third largest block of greenhouse-gas emitters behind China and the US.

But it is difficult to do at the scale you need

A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change.

It will start as a stand-alone course, but eventually be integrated into all subjects.

Climate change will soon expose a crippling problem embedded in the nation’s infrastructure. In fire-ravaged California, it already has.

Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks

The ASEEDS Creek Rangers program is teaching kids why climate science is personal and empowering them to change their communities.

The coronavirus has pushed the coal industry to once-unthinkable lows, and the consequences for climate change are big.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday he would donate $10 billion to combat climate change, marking one of the largest individual philanthropic commitments ever to the crucial environmental challenge.The details: "This global initiative will fund scientists, activists, NGOs – any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world," Bezos, the world's richest person, said in an Instagram post unveiling the Bezos Earth Fund.It appears he will donate the money to researchers and advocacy groups, rather than investing it into startups and other for-profit ventures tackling climate change, Axios reported.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, however, noted that awareness of the risks is growing and in "some good news", announcements of climate action by governments and the private sector are gathering steam. He was responding to a question on which countries and governments are responsible for the failure to improve the climate change situation.

As wildfires dominate the news, experts suggest some of the best ways you can help the planet and combat climate change.

Some scientists believe that geoengineering, the idea that we could spray reflective particles into the atmosphere to reverse global warming, may especially reduce suffering in the hottest, poorest parts of the world.A new paper in Nature Communications goes further, concluding that such measures could accelerate economic growth in nations most vulnerable to climate change.

For the first time, scientists have detected the fingerprint of human-induced climate change from a single day of global weather conditions.

A new investigation provides the most “robust” evidence yet connecting fossil fuel companies to climate-related human rights violations, legal experts say.

Poor nations have been disproportionately impacted by climate change, a grim new report by the anti-poverty charity found.

A carbon-negative vodka company makes its beverage literally out of thin air. Now that's booze you can use.

The Trump administration officially began the process of withdrawing the US from the landmark Paris climate agreement on Monday, in a move that surprised no one.The details: The step, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Twitter, starts the clock on a one-year waiting period that will end the day after the next presidential election.

General Mills is one of several big companies investing in regenerative agriculture. Will it reverse climate change or just help sell more products?