When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the...

Two weeks ago, diplomats from almost 200 countries arrived at a sports stadium on the outskirts of Baku, Azerbaijan, to...

The Biden administration has backtracked from supporting a cap on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics...

Matthias Weyland loves having people ask about his balcony. A pair of solar panels hang from the railing, casting a...

In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing...

In a video uploaded to YouTube last year, home cook and food influencer Alexa Santos scores a wheel of brie, drizzles...

Talking about climate change doesn’t come naturally to most people, even those who are worried about it. Roughly two-thirds of...

Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. Looking...

A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the...

Wealthy investors and asset managers wield a lot of power over the major companies whose stock they own or control. Every year,...

Hundreds of fed-up Germans driving tractors rumbled into Berlin and parked in a long line leading up to the stately...

One in 5 species of migratory birds, fish, reptiles, mammals, and insects tracked by the United Nations is threatened with...