Nearly ten years after the Paris Agreement -- a legally binding commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- the gap between climate goals and government actions remains stubborn.The consequences ...

The International Court of Justice was asked to rule on whether nations are obligated under international law to protect the ...

Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture and storage outside of agricultural areas. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02033-6 ...

Today, nitrogen pollution is causing overshoot of several planetary boundaries. Nitrates pollute waterways, causing eutrophication. Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas and an ozone ...

Global new electric car sales rose 35% in 2023, to nearly 14 million vehicles, with almost all purchased in China, the U.S. and Europe. This was a 35% increase over 2022, and six times higher than ...

Despite going up 8.9% from 2020 in planet-warming carbon pollution, Rhode Island is still in compliance with the Act on Climate, the state law that mandates steady cuts in greenhouse gases with ...

Human activity has pushed the planet across four of nine environmental boundaries, sending the world towards a "danger zone", according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science.

They noted that if all these over-consumers switched to the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet, global greenhouse gas emissions related to food production could be reduced 32.4%.