The Latest Breaking News on Climate

Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts

A recent policy report points to much-needed market-based reforms.

Each year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest, with 95% of this deforestation occurring in tropical regions. South America is a major hotspot, with Brazil in particular facing severe forest loss — much of it driven by cattle ranching, which accounts for more than 70% of all…

Asian giant controls over half of world's refining capacity for lithium, cobalt and rare earths

Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more than four times the emissions from all commercial air travel in 2023

Although air transport contributes a small proportion to global greenhouse gas emissions (approximately 3.5%), the expected growth in traffic compels the industry to minimize its environmental footprint. The European Commission aims to have carbon neutrality in 2050. To help reach this goal, the industry needs to change its practices.

Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience

Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

The U.S. Senate is moving forward with an effort to block California's nation-leading standards for vehicle emissions

The National Park Service has suffered thousands of job cuts to crucial services like search and rescue

Colombia's Procurator’s Office says the country has lost nearly 88,900 hectares of forest — an area larger than New York City — in six months due to illegal road construction, expanding coca cultivation, and unregulated mining