Countries have wrapped up a first-of-its-kind summit in Colombia on phasing out fossil fuels with no binding commitments but ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

It’s a warm, sunny weekday evening in July in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia. Inside the Creekside Community Recreation Centre—which overlooks the Vancouver skyline—a group of more than 20 ...

While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...

A 2024 draft had large chapters on climate change and environmental justice. The final version omits those parts due to new ...

This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil. So far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. This week, leaders from around the world ...

In 2024 alone, an election year when roughly half the world's eligible voters had the chance to vote, at least 23 elections ...

The Sahel, the semi-arid African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, has become the epicentre of global terrorism, given the high number of attacks by ...

Teens have a shaky understanding of the causes of climate change and the strong scientific consensus around the fact that human activity is driving up global temperatures, according to a report. A ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In that dystopian novel, published in 1993 and set in the mid-2020s, the United States still exists but has been warped by global ...