Fossil fuels still receive most of the international government support provided to the energy sector despite their “well-known environmental and public health damage,” according to new research from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

The Paris Agreement in 2015 proposed a target to limit global warming to less than 2℃ and pursue efforts to limit warming to less than 1.5℃. 

A team of leading environmental experts, spearheaded by the University of Nottingham, have warned that the current war on plastic is detracting from the bigger threats to the environment.

Secondary forests play an important part in carbon capture because they tend to absorb a larger amount of carbon than they lose to the atmosphere. 

For the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start freezing in late October. 

Long blue shadows on the snow portend frigid days ahead in this far eastern corner of Siberia.

As springtime arrives in the Andes, winter snow melts to provide an important water source for local communities.

A team of NASA researchers used satellite and radar imagery to help officials in Iowa better understand the effects of a derecho that ripped through the state in August.

Wildfires don’t stop being dangerous after the flames go out. 

Research scientists at the University of Iceland are currently participating in a joint European project on designing a new set of integrated assessment models to make Europe a low-carbon society.