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Some parts of the city this week recorded an air-quality index reading of 1,800 — 20 times higher than levels the World Health Organization deems healthy.

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Paying attention to the sticker price doesn’t always result in the best insurance coverage.

A review of countries’ new climate pledges shows who is leading efforts to protect the climate their economies were built on and who is sliding.

The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately successful.

Britain’s two main right-wing parties disavowed themselves of the country’s nearly two-decade-old climate legislation

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over two years of nearly incessant bombardment, Israeli forces have killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, at least a third of whom are children. The human toll has been called genocide by human rights organizations around the world and by a UN commission, but a new […]

The move comes just weeks before Brazil hosts the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon.

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.