In 2012, Paul Polman, the chairman of Unilever, a global consumer goods company, wrote, "It is evident that an economy that extracts resources at increasing rates without consideration for the environment in which it operates ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed to revive U.S. coal production and bring back thousands of jobs.

Nothing on Earth moves without energy, and most of the energy that people use is of the fossil variety: coal; oil; and natural gas.

Research on stoneflies in Glacier National Park indicates that global warming is reducing the genetic diversity of some species ...

We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems that refuse to go away: the refugee crisis; terrorism; rising sea levels; frequent floods, droughts and wildfires; not to mention persistent inequality and violation of basic human rights across the world.

The number of UK higher education institutions vowing to exclude fossil fuel from investments has grown to 43, according to research conducted by student campaign network People & Planet.

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.