HONG KONG — Tuvalu’s approach at the COP26 climate summit: Show, don’t tell. In a speech aired at the summit on Tuesday, the Pacific island nation’s Foreign Minister Simon Kofe is dressed in a suit ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Over the the next two weeks, the news will be especially environment ...

The big speeches and announcements are over—but now the real work begins. As global leaders leave COP26 in Glasgow, delegates can finally get down to the main business of the conference: negotiations.

Nearly 200 nations reached a climate agreement on Saturday at COP26 with an unprecedented reference to the role of fossil fuels in the climate crisis, even after an 11th-hour objection from India that ...

Up to 10,000 feral horses, known as brumbies, might be killed or removed from Australia’s largest alpine national park under a draft plan to control the rapidly growing population of non-native ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After the Trump administration bowed out of COP25 in 2019, the ...

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow was a qualified success. It was a success in part because it was not a failure—the conference ended with an agreement and with ...

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has officially kicked-off in Glasgow on October 31 and will run until November 12, 2021. With heightened awareness and deepening concern about ...

For researchers studying Earth’s creatures, climate change is a central issue: some species could disappear if temperatures and ecosystems continue to shift. Tim Flannery, a palaeontologist and ...

From being “5-1 down to climate change” to climate talks being in a “rolling maul”, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sport on his mind during COP26, so it’s fitting that sport featured more ...

Still, it’s easier to lean in the direction of cynicism. The UN has been holding these annual meetings since the mid-1990s. For most of that time, the world’s diplomats have engaged in a morbid game ...