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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 city plans to turn part of the 172-acre Governors Island south of Manhattan into a “living laboratory” for studying and coping with the effects of climate change, The New York Times reported Sunday.

New York City has a $20 billion plan to protect itself from climate change

A pumice "raft" the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef's corals that have seen rapid deterioration in recent years due to climate change.

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?

The news: In the third quarter of this year 40% of the UK’s electricity came from renewables like wind, biomass, and solar, while fossil fuels—virtually all gas in the UK’s case—made up 39%, according to climate change analysts Carbon Brief.

Sea levels could be around a meter (3.3 feet) higher and the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer by 2100, the UN’s climate science committee has concluded.Sea-level fears: This is 10 centimeters  (3.9 inches) higher than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted six years ago.

The world must invest $1.8 trillion by 2030 to prepare for the effects of global warming. A new report said the payoff could be four times that.