Environment

The head of the U.N. food aid agency says the drought-stricken island nation of Madagascar is a "wake up call" to what the world can expect in coming years due to climate change.

A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates said Tuesday that they plan to sue the federal government over the failure to review and update plans for platforms off the coast.

World leaders at COP26 promised to protect the world's forests and cut methane emissions, deals intended to avert catastrophic global warming.

The Biden administration is proposing new rules to reduce methane — a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming.

President Joe Biden is taking a markedly more humble tone for a U.S. leader on climate change.

President Joe Biden is praising a new U.S. and European Union agreement that would crack down on “dirty steel” that leads to carbon emissions.

The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has opened Sunday, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge of global warming.

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies committed to reaching carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day summit that laid the groundwork for the U.N. climate conference in Scotland.

Despite the concerns of some of the delegates from around the world, the British government says the conference will be safe and argues that world leaders must meet face-to-face in order to act now to prevent catastrophic global warming.

U.S. government regulators for the first time will analyze greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas lease sales on a national scale as the Biden administration steps up efforts to address climate change.

Two weeks of intense climate change negotiations start Sunday, and some leaders say humanity's future is at stake.

President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic” framework with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping, though scaled-back domestic policy plan.

President Joe Biden promised to show the world that democracies can work to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods said Thursday that his company “does not spread disinformation regarding climate change″ during a landmark House hearing.

Salesforce on Thursday announced the San Francisco company would be giving $300 million to new climate investments toward reforestation and restoration.

Democrats previously pushed a 10-year, $3.5 trillion fiscal blueprint of Biden’s plan. But the actual package now seems likely to be half that size.

Uber announced a deal with Hertz on Wednesday that will make up to 50,000 Teslas available to Uber drivers by 2023.

A majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them.