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Brexit: No excuse to ?go back to year zero? on climate

As the UK?s vote to leave the European Union sends shockwaves across the world, green groups warn the move cannot be an excuse to ?go back to year zero on environmental protection?.

Climate?s coral killers move in swiftly

Worst-ever bleaching event affects 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef as rising temperatures and sea levels bring swift death to vast swathes of colourful corals.

World celebrates Pope?s words as faith groups shift into action

The world is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis? groundbreaking encyclical on ecology, ?Laudato Si?, and much of those celebrations are focused on taking climate action.

Brexit costs to be counted in health & climate impacts

The UK public will head to the polls next week, in a ?climate referendum? that could see it turn its back on decades of progress on environmental issues, including climate change and air pollution.

Arctic melting feeds on itself

Melting sea ice is affecting the closely-linked Arctic climate in a feedback that will speed up warming there, scientists say.

Li Junfeng Receives Zayed Future Energy Prize Lifetime Achievement Award

Source: Global Times - Visionary Leader of China’s Clean Energy Transition Wins Prestigious Award

UK airlines set out four targets to cut carbon emissions

Source: Travel Weekly - Four targets have been set by UK airlines to help cut carbon emissions.

Trump team moving away from supporters on climate science

Source: BBC - Donald Trump and his cabinet accept far more of the research on climate change than many of their political supporters, say British scientists.

Celebrating corporate sustainability leadership

Source: Corporate Knights - Despite U.S. change in direction, the private sector is proving its commitment to sustainable development.

Climate Experts See Xi Touting Clean Energy Leadership at Davos

Source: Bloomberg - Four days before climate change skeptic Donald Trump becomes president of the U.S., his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will appear at Davos. His theme is responsible business and his speech is expected to tout the world’s largest polluter as a leader in the fight against global warming and shift toward renewable energy.

Australia passes landmark carbon price laws

Australia's parliament passed landmark laws to impose a price on carbon emissions on Tuesday in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade, giving new impetus to December's global climate talks in South Africa.

Study tallies health costs of climate disasters

Natural disasters tied to climate change not only cause physical damage but create significant health costs in terms of hospitalizations and lives lost, according to a study published Monday.

(Incandescent) lights to go out in China

China announced Friday it will phase out incandescent light bulbs within five years in an attempt to make the world's most polluting nation more energy efficient.

Warming gases saw biggest jump on record

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated.

NYC-sized iceberg being born on Antarctica

Scientists on an aerial survey of Antarctica have come across an 18-mile-long break in an ice shelf, a sign that the unstable area is giving birth to an iceberg likely to be larger than New York City.

Togo seizes tusks of 500 dead elephants

Authorities in Togo have seized nearly 4 tons  of ivory ?  the tusks from over 500 dead elephants ? hidden in containers destined for Vietnam, officials said on Monday.

Report: Keystone pipeline would have minimal environmental impact

A new State Department report on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline finds that the project would have minimal impact on the environment, an assessment likely to increase pressure on the White House to approve it. But the report sets no deadline for doing so.

Snowy owl recovering after being hit by bus in DC

A snowy owl that ventured south to the unlikely habitat of Washington, D.C., was clearly not cut out for city life. The animal was hit by a bus and was recovering with wildlife experts Friday.

Why Mexico is losing millions of butterflies

The stunning and little-understood annual migration of millions of Monarch butterflies to spend the winter in Mexico is in danger of disappearing, experts said Wednesday, after numbers dropped to their lowest level since record keeping began in 1993.

Changing climate is killing penguin chicks in Argentina

Extreme weather along the Argentine coast is killing chicks of Magellenic penguins that roost there. A 28-year study of the birds has found very hot years and very wet ones claiming as many as 50 percent of new chicks in the worst of times.