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 ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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%.

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.

The runaway greenhouse effect in the team's simulation can see a planet change from having a temperate, Earth-like hospitable state to one that exhibits a hellscape with surface temperatures of ...