The Bellingshausen Coast in West Antarctica. Credit: Robert Bingham

Over the past few years, the evidence has piled up that glaciers in parts of Antarctica have been melting and retreating at an increasingly worrying — and potentially unstoppable — pace...

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There are powerful social, environmental and economic implications associated with transparency. Corporations are not the only ones that should be concerned about transparency; governments, employees, consumers and the whole of civil society all have a stake. Transparency is about open access to an organization’s activities and this has implications for everything from climate change to the bottom line...

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News flash: Donald Trump has proven again that he would be a disastrous President who would let our planet fry. Today, he added further insult to existing injury, launching a jaw-dropping energy speech that defies reality...

With all the global challenges today, we need more companies to rethink tomorrow...

Last week I watched a brave 23-year old woman stand up to the leader of the largest oil company in the United States. At a shareholders meeting in Dallas, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson was forced to confront the equally formidable Anna Kalinsky — who brought a warning from Exxon’s own past.

"An increase in more severe hurricanes will cost the federal government billions, and that doesn’t even include the costs states, localities, and households will have to pay..."

The cover image from the report from the Parkland Institute depicts a pipeline under construction. Author David Hughes says Canada has enough capacity already to handle a 45% increase in oil sands production and doesn't need new pipelines. (Parkland Institute)

Petroleum industry disputes assumptions in report, which also says no new pipeline capacity is needed...

Grey plumes of toxic dust from giant nickel smelters in the Siberian city of Norilsk are carried by Arctic winds as far away as Canada and Scandinavia, September 27, 2003. Reuters

Researchers in the United States and Canada have located 39 unreported sources of major pollution using a new satellite-based method, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said...

An artist’s rendering of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Proposed cuts to NOAA and NASA target climate change research in particular...

People take part in a climate march at City Hall in New York City. Credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

The bill, endorsed by a broad coalition, is also notable for its emphasis on environmental and economic justice, advocates say...

A �Bambi Bucket� hanging from a helicopter releases hundreds of gallons of water on to the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska, last year. Photograph: Sgt Balinda O'Neal/AP

Report from US Geological Survey says northern wildfires must now be seen as significant driver of climate change, not just a side-effect...

Donald Trump vowed in a speech to "cancel" the hard-won climate agreement reached in Paris in December and signed by 175 countries at the UN (AFP Photo/Robyn Beck)

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations on Friday hit back at Donald Trump after he vowed to scrap the Paris climate deal if elected US president, saying the agreement was critical to saving the planet...

An update to the famous temperature spiral using future climate projections
Credit: Jay Alder/USGS

The temperature spiral that took the world by storm has an update. If you think the heat is on in our current climate, you ain’t seen nothing yet...

The Venable Ice Shelf, in West Antarctica, in 2008. (NASA/JPL-Caltech-UC-Irvine/AFP)

The forces affecting the ice in West Antarctica are an area of urgent focus for climate scientists who are all too aware of the ice sheet’s huge potential contributions to global sea-level rise...

Hacker using laptop. The US Senate is poised to fund computational experiments of climate hacking. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Funding for geoengineering computational experiments was mysteriously included in a Senate appropriations bill...

A fuel nozzle for E-85, left, and traditional gasoline is seen at a gas station in Batesville, Miss. ( AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

This month, the Environmental Protection Agency once again proposed an uptick in the billions of gallons of biofuels—mostly corn ethanol and biodiesel—that Americans must put in their autos and other vehicles as we hit the traveling season of summer...

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Many credible sources have said that Donald Trump has lost touch with reality. Even so, I won’t say it...

Antarctica's cold water mystery finally solved -Reuters