New analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity, Farm Forward and Brighter Green Sunday finds that the meat-heavy menu at the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change conference COP24 could contribute more than 4,000 metric...

Delegates at UN biodiversity conference turn to Beijing to avoid point of no return. China must play a leading role if the world is to draw up a new and more effective strategy to...

Big cuts in carbon emissions and a rise in protection from extreme weather urgently needed.The UN climate change summit begins on Monday with a warning that today’s generation is the last that...

Pesticides and weed killers have their benefits. They are beneficial in reducing or eliminating pests that damage or destroy crops. Yet they can wreak havoc with entire ecosystems.Worse: their effects can linger...

One in six pints of milk produced around the world is lost or wasted, according to research conducted at Edinburgh University for the Guardian.Sixteen percent of dairy products – 116m tonnes –...

We already knew that air pollution had officially become the world’s biggest killer.Now, an Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) analysis by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago has found...

Next week, heads of state and representatives from roughly 200 countries will descend in Katowice, Poland for the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention...

Cooling the Earth by injecting sun-blocking particles into the stratosphere could be “remarkably inexpensive”, according to the most detailed engineering analysis to date.The fear of a rogue nation or military force unilaterally...

Oceans stretch across 70 percent of our planet, and the vast majority of the world beneath them is unmapped and unexplored. Their depths may still hold many secrets, but we know they face...

In a year that saw record-breaking heat waves, record-breaking hurricanes and record-breaking wildfires, it's hard to imagine how the future could look any more like a disaster movie than the present. But that is exactly what...

Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are far above pre-industrial levels.The main greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change have all reached record levels, the UN’s meteorology experts have reported. Carbon dioxide, methane and...

Pollution from diesel vehicles is stunting the growth of children’s lungs, leaving them damaged for life, a major study has found. The research, conducted with more than 2,000 school children in London, is...

California is currently in the grips of its deadliest wildfire while two others rage, in what has been its worst wildfire year on record.The Camp wildfire in the north of the US...

New research suggests European firms are investing more on low carbon energy compared to their rivals in the US and Asia. Top oil and gas companies invested only around 1.3% of their total capital expenditure...

Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990s.The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK...

 As AI-powered drones and self-driving cars slowly come to occupy our cities, a question arises: how will they behave towards the living beings they encounter on the way? While research on human...