The world is on course to miss a target for cutting emissions this decade by an overwhelming amount, new UN analysis shows, meaning more dangerous global warming is likely. Total emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2030 will only …
Gas stoves in European homes are associated with tens of thousands of premature deaths, a study has found. Nearly 40,000 early deaths each year in the EU and UK can be linked to exposure to nitrogen dioxide from burning gas …
The US Supreme Court let the Environmental Protection Agency move ahead with its stringent new emissions limits for power plants, rebuffing businesses and Republican-run states that complained the rule will impose exorbitant compliance costs. The high court order is a …
The world is choking from emissions more than ever, but that trend is set to reverse starting next year as the cost of solar panels and batteries crowd out coal and stunt the growth of oil, a new report says. …
The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential supplies that are the region’s lifeline. Below-average rainfall …
Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies said on Thursday their carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project on Norway’s west coast is now completed and ready to receive CO2, with its first deliveries expected next year. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has long been …
Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the Amazon rainforest. Exacerbated by a severe drought, the fires threaten one of the world’s most crucial ecosystems and are consuming …
Methane releases from some of the world’s major fossil fuel hubs are continuing to rise, as key polluters make little progress on pledges to curb the potent greenhouse gas. Emissions of the gas across 13 large fossil fuel basins in …
An environmental group is suing Tyson Foods for allegedly misleading consumers by saying it will reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without meaningful plans to achieve those goals. The suit was filed on Wednesday by the Washington-based …
Norway’s government will ask an appeals court on Wednesday to lift injunctions against developing three oil and gas fields, part of a wider effort by Oslo to overturn an earlier verdict invalidating their permits on environmental grounds. A lower court …
