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A Swiss air quality monitoring firm on Tuesday said its latest worldwide data reveals the need for more walkable cities and a swift transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, as just 7 out of 134 countries were found to meet global standards for dangerous air pollution.

 

An annual, independent assessment of Australia’s environment has found several silver linings amid longer-term declines exacerbated by climate change.

 

Although the humble sea cucumber may not look like much, it could soon be recruited to help save the world's coral reefs.

 

It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a "bump on the sea floor" where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada's only known live coral reef.

 

Greenpeace on Monday called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider area around Ecuador's famous Galapagos archipelago.

 

Members of a global coalition on Thursday released a report detailing "significant and immediate dangers" that artificial intelligence poses to the climate emergency.

 

A world-first study has found enzymes from the prickly paddy melon weed can create a sustainable alternative to cement.

 

Climate change is disrupting the seasonal flow of rivers in the far northern latitudes of America, Russia and Europe.

 

The current climate event known as El Niño is likely to supercharge global heating and deliver record-breaking temperatures from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024, analysis has found.

 

"The Energy Charter Treaty was a major barrier to the progress of a just transition," said one climate action group.

 

L.A. saw 592 mudslides in one week, a reminder that excessive precipitation events set off more than flooding.

 

Scientists are reporting corals are bleaching white and dying from rising ocean temperatures across a more than 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.

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