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Top Biden officials hope the new goal will help rally climate action at the state and local level.

Widespread flooding underscores major challenges for Beijing as emergency response becomes a regular occurrence – and as climate change drives more extreme...

Ancient Buddhist murals in northwestern China are under "direct threat" due to unprecedented rainfall brought by climate change, researchers said.

Hyundai announced it would take steps to prevent its heavy machinery from being used in illegal mining in the Amazon, the company announced Friday, in the wake of a report by environmental group Greenpeace.

Experts and activists were hoping UN climate talks would end last week with a prominent mention of biodiversity in the final text. They walked away disappointed.

The collapse of climate legislation is a blow to global efforts to address warming.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry was in China this week to discuss efforts to combat climate change by the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

John Kerry is finishing a trip to Beijing, and the need for China and the United States to take concerted action on climate change has never been more evident.

U.S.-China relations will determine the future of global warming, but it's difficult to set aside superpower rivalries in the bid to reduce emissions.

Biden and Xi will offer competing initiatives for developing world support.

Environmentalists are criticizing slow progress at a U.N.-backed meeting of nearly all the world's countries toward beefing up protections for biodiversity...

A new report from Greenpeace suggests AI is exacerbating global power inequities.

Although China is the global leader in solar and wind power installations, it still relies on coal plants for periods of peak demand.

Apple's environmental credentials were front and center in the iPhone 15 event thanks to a lengthy and somewhat cringeworthy skit...

Extreme weather in China this summer has taken a toll on the size of harvests in the world's biggest food-producing country.

Extreme rainfall in Dunhuang and Zhangye in China's Gansu province has put UNESCO-listed world heritage sites at risk, with cave monasteries dating back to...

Traces of microplastics have been found in sea salt samples across the country

Dec 15 (IPS) - As the COP entered its crucial second week, negotiations are intensifying now. A slew of new contact groups – meeting mostly behind closed doors – are discussing the minutest details of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the contentious issues within or around it, such as Digital Sequencing Information, Access, and Benefit Sharing. The core aim of all these groups is to talk and resolve all issues…

At the COP27 climate summit, surprise final statement text that could provide cover to natural gas use deflated the sense of triumph after the U.S. and E.U. agreed for the first time to create a fund to pay for some countries' climate losses

Approvals for new coal-fired power plants in China dropped sharply in the first half of this year, according to an analysis released Tuesday, after a flurry ...