With Donald Trump threatening to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, China is ready to assume leadership of the world’s climate efforts.

Since 2008, deep inside a mountain on a permafrost-crusted archipelago near the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been open for business, soliciting and accepting sample seed collections from partner seed banks around the globe.

Russia, China, and other nations are stepping up preparations for the day when large numbers of cargo ships will be traversing a once-icebound Arctic Ocean.

Few groups were as shocked and chagrined by Donald Trump’s victory as the environmental community.

Dear Mr. President-elect: Considering who your closest advisors are, it is a fair guess that no one else will give you a briefing on sustainability.

With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90% certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by 2015.

Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency signals an end to American leadership on international climate policy.

To support cities in climate sustainability, the Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) from U.N. Habitat collaborated with other agencies to develop the report "Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning."

From rapid genetic analysis to spectrography, high-tech tools are being used to track down and prosecute perpetrators of the illegal wildlife trade.

Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.