Far down the Alaskan peninsula, where it curves into the Bering Sea, lies the remote Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

The Beaufort Gyre, a key Arctic Ocean current, is acting strangely.

In recent months, thousands of groups across the United States — including cities, states, companies, tribes and nongovernmental organizations — have launched initiatives in support of the Paris Agreement.

Previous efforts to restore former coal mine sites in Appalachia have left behind vast swaths of unproductive land.

Insurance giant AXA has announced a quadrupling of its 2020 green investment target from $3.53 billion to $14.13 billion as the company's CEO warned more than 4 degrees Celsius of warming this century would make the world "uninsurable."

A loophole in carbon-accounting rules is spurring a boom in burning wood pellets in European power plants.

Compared with the planet's other large tracts of tropical forests, the forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have remained relatively intact — although that soon may be changing.

On Tuesday, China announced further details of its forthcoming national emissions trading scheme (ETS), revealing the rollout will start in the energy sector before full implementation from 2020 onwards.

Efforts to protect biodiversity are now focusing less on preserving pristine areas and more on finding room for wildlife on the margins of human development.

Innovation visionaries say electric, self-driving, shared cars will soon revolutionize the way humans move about.