At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This...

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...