Environment & Sustainability

While growing evidence shows that carbon emissions are harming the economy, the journal Nature found that an outlier paper had deep flaws.

The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada’s largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them in poor shape amid growing superpower rivalry in the region.

Here’s what to know about your daily brew and the environment.

Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica as a stunning Category 5 storm. But the U.S. was spared as the Federal Emergency Management Agency faces drastic change. By Amy Green The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season may be best-remembered for its unusual distribution of…

Critics say the rate freeze will only delay financial burdens on Alabama Power customers while preserving a high profit rate for the utility. By Dennis Pillion MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Alabama Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved a sweeping package of temporary…

California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds. By Hilary Beaumont After January wildfires destroyed more than 18,000 buildings in Los…

Electric vehicle sales have cratered.  Across the country, dealers sold about 20 percent fewer used electric cars in October than in September and saw a staggering 50 percent drop for new ones, according to the latest data. No one was…

Lachlan Marchant says the massive cloud over the Tanami desert in Northern territory ‘reminded us of Uluru’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Lachlan Marchant and his colleagues were driving their golf buggies back to…

Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds More than 520 chemicals have been found in English soils, including pharmaceutical products and toxins that were banned decades ago, because of the…

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet Soon after I returned home to Altamira from Cop30, I found myself talking about dinosaurs, meteors and “ambassadors of…