Climate Change & Environment
Latest stories
Greta Thunberg Donates Million-Euro Rights Prize to Green Groups

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Monday awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the million-euro prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.

W140 Full Story
Climate Change on Track to Wipe Out Polar Bears by 2100

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime.

W140 Full Story
Bikes Wedge Their Way into Heavy Paris Traffic

Stein van Oosteren was cycling along the Avenue Denfert Rochereau in Paris when, to his surprise, he found himself in a "caravan" of bikes.

W140 Full Story
Sweden, a Flawed Climate Awareness Pioneer

Known for ecological advances and a relatively light carbon footprint among industrialised nations, Sweden wants to be the first that is carbon neutral by 2045.

W140 Full Story
Report: Brazil Exports to EU Produced on Illegally Cleared Land

One fifth of beef and soybean exports from Brazil to the European Union is produced on land that was illegally deforested, according to a report published in Science magazine.

W140 Full Story
Siberia Heat 'Almost Impossible' without Climate Change

A heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38-degree Celsius highs was "almost impossible" without the influence of manmade climate change, leading scientists said.

W140 Full Story
Biden Unveils $2 Trillion Climate Plan in New Contrast with Trump

White House hopeful Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious, $2 trillion climate change plan that would revamp the U.S. energy sector and seek to achieve carbon pollution-free power in just 15 years.

W140 Full Story
China Rushes to Contain Floods after Record Rainfall

Soldiers erected sandbag flood barriers in a city near China's largest freshwater lake after the heaviest rainfall in nearly six decades drenched the swollen Yangtze River basin.

W140 Full Story
Chinese Rivers and Lakes Swell Perilously as Summer Flood Season Crests

Floods across central and eastern China have left more than 140 people dead or missing and are swelling major rivers and lakes to record-high levels, with authorities warning that the worst was yet to come.

W140 Full Story
U.N. to Hold Crisis Talks as Decaying Yemen Tanker Risks Disaster

An abandoned oil tanker lying off Yemen's coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board is deteriorating badly and could rupture at any time, with disastrous results for Red Sea marine life, U.N. and other experts warn.

W140 Full Story