Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in...

For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working in...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify...

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When wildfires devastated a wide swath of Los Angeles last winter, officials warned residents of several ZIP codes not to...

Rescue crews are scrambling to find survivors of catastrophic flooding that tore through Central Texas on the Fourth of July....

When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan,...

In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth:...

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...