The United Nations climate meetings, aka COP (conference of parties), have always had a flair for hand-wringing bureaucratic ...

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s call for action on climate change during his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ceremony drew more attention to the issue than the Paris Agreement in 2015 or Earth Day, ...

PARIS (KGO) -- THE PRESIDENT: In my first inaugural address, I committed this country to the tireless task of combating climate change and protecting this planet for future generations. Two weeks ago, ...

Every week the Senate has been in session since April 2012, one lonely Democratic senator from Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse, has taken to the Senate floor to speak about global warming. On March ...

Prince William called on world leaders to “be the generation that turned the tide” in a speech that has cemented his position ...

Courts are increasingly taking a close look at the validity of climate change lawsuits against oil producers. And for good reason: These cases severely test the boundaries of court jurisdiction, the ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said, "When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water." It's true Harris ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to ...

To understand why the climate-finance debate keeps circling the same obstacles, it helps to revisit its intellectual lineage.

Some 600 experts gather outside Paris on Monday to start work on the next major UN climate report, as the international ...