Published 7 December 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Flooding and landslides in East Africa have killed dozens of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. Mea

Published 7 December 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, IUCN By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Madrid Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, an

Published 29 November 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Image caption, The Cold War-era military base at Thule is a key early warning facility for the US By Laurence Peter BBC News D

Representational image (Credits: IANS) These bacteria, which build the entire biomass of their body from the carbon in the air, may help develop future technologies that reduce greenhouse gas accumula

Published 27 November 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst Critical elements in the Earth’s climate may be more likely to break down than

Published 26 November 2019 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Climate change is said to have increased the severity of recent wildfires in Australia By Matt Mc

‘Bleak’ U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks A gas flare at a Shell refinery in Norco, La. By Nov. 26, 2019 With world leaders gathering in Madrid next week for their annual b

A Wet Year Causes Farm Woes Far Beyond the Floodplains Waterlogged, unplanted farm fields near Gardner, Ill., in May. Record rainfall in the area postponed crop planting, and some 19 million acres wen

Economy Federal Reserve governor cited research showing more-frequent heat waves could affect economic output and labor productivity Nov. 8, 2019 11:57 am ET Lael Brainard said rising insurance premiu

U.S. Reserve Bank of San Francisco president says addressing the issue is part of ‘core responsibilities’ Updated Nov. 8, 2019 1:20 pm ET | WSJ Pro Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of

Published 6 November 2019 comments Share page About sharing Image source, AFP By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent A global group of around 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the

The World’s Oceans Are in Danger, Major Climate Change Report Warns The warming world is disrupting aquatic life and ocean patterns, with dire global consequences. Credit... Scott McIntyre for The New

Published 20 September 2019 Share page About sharing By Justin Rowlatt Chief Environment correspondent @BBCJustinR Is individual action pointless in the face of climate change? Let's not beat around t

Published 22 September 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The signs and impacts of global warming are speeding up, the latest science on

Published 16 September 2019 comments Share page About sharing Media caption, The acceleration in melting of the ice sheet covering Greenland has shocked researchers By Roger Harrabin BBC environment a

Huge tracts of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of the planet by taking in carbon dioxide, storing it in soils and producing oxygen, are ablaze. Smoke from the widespread fires have turned day in

LEH, India—The Ladakh region of northern India is one of the world’s highest, driest inhabited places. For centuries, meltwater from winter snows in the Himalayan mountains sustained the tiny villages

LAKE HOPATCONG, N.J. — Before climate change thawed the winters of New Jersey, this lake hosted boisterous wintertime carnivals. As many as 15,000 skaters took part, and automobile owners would drive

Published 14 August 2019 Share page About sharing Media caption, Locals are 'sad' about the changes in the Arctic they've seen By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst Even in the Arctic, microscopic

How long can civilisation survive? To thrive for billions of years, there will be a few troublesome problems to solve – from the death of the Sun to the decay of matter. Can we actually say anything a