Download PDF of this publication Adapting to climate impacts is more critical than ever. Average global temperatures surpassed the 1.5°C threshold in 2024, and the ten worst climate-related disasters of 2025 caused over $120 billion in insured losses alone. Yet just as adaptation becomes more urgent, climate has slipped down the global agenda, leaving the developing countries most exposed […]

The law survived sustained attacks from Congress, the Trump Administration and Big Pork. How is it so resilient?

There are many definitions of sustainability, ranging from the expansive seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to my own conception,

New research in Science shows El Niños are now 36% stronger due to climate change, with a 16% rise in recent decades. Using coral fossils, scientists traced 900 years of data, linking intensification to human-caused warming. The study warns of more extreme weather events, though some scientists debate the findings.

Financial strains are imposing limits on what African countries can spend on disaster recovery and climate adaptation.

LEED v5 turns pest management into more than extermination: monitoring, lowest-risk controls, documentation, communication and vendor oversight all matter.

The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.

The rising energy demands of AI and data centers threaten corporate net zero commitments and worsen climate change. But can AI also help develop climate solutions? MIT Sloan researchers investigate.

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Global gas flaring rose for the third consecutive year, surging to 167 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2025 and wasting an estimated $54 billion worth of gas. As many countries, especially the poorest, face energy shortages, capturing this wasted gas could strengthen energy security, generate power, support economic activity that’s key to job creation, and reduce emissions.

2025 marks a defining year for Indigenous leadership in global environmental policy. Hear from Indigenous leaders of the Inclusive Conservation Initiative (ICI) on how Indigenous Knowledge is lighting the policy path -- from Abu Dhabi, to COP6 for the Minamata Convention, and to UNFCCC COP30 in Belé

The rare climate pattern associated with prolonged periods of intense heat now requires ramped up planning by authorities at all levels to prevent deaths and avoid damage that can be severe. So far, government action has fallen far short.

East and South Asian countries have made the strongest SDG progress since 2015, and among major economies the standouts are India and China.

Amazon-based scientists have long known that rapidly rising temperatures mean that places where species live today won’t be where they live tomorrow. For a vast number of species — ranging from insects, birds and primates to all manner of plants — upslope migration could present a potential, though perilous, pathway to resilience and survival during […]

World Risk Poll data show most adults in high-income countries worry about climate change but underestimate how many others in their country do as well.

Mars, the company behind the iconic M&M's candy, announces a multi-million dollar makeover, introducing a new version made without artificial dyes. These new M&M's will be sold exclusively on Amazon and will notably exclude the blue and brown colors. Mars aims to offer all six colors with natural flavors by 2028, overcoming production challenges with spirulina.

Father’s Day finds me in Lima, Peru, conducting a gender evaluation. The timing feels appropriate.

Over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal that any generation has ever imposed on…

What does successful climate change adaptation look like? The Global Goal on Adaptation aims to help countries find answers.

A new study suggests that while residents recognize the impacts of climate justice, the terminology itself may not inspire concern or action.

More than a billion children are now facing at least three overlapping climate hazards

There is a particular cruelty to the way modern wars are fought. Not just in their scale or their duration, but in what they have quietly decided about who matters and who doesn't.

Most climate change estimates of AI focus on emissions from training large models, but they don't account for the impact of running them, shows a UN report.

We spent a day out in the city with a thermal camera, recording surface temperatures indoors and outdoors.

Representatives from 186 nations agreed the Global Environment Facility fund, which will support projects in 144 countries.

Petrochemicals are embedded in modern life, but their environmental and health costs are becoming impossible to ignore.

In a new paper published in Science, leading scientists and climate policy experts show that 15% of current global warming (0.3°C) from human emissions stems from pollutants that fall outside most existing ...

For years, the ESG debate has revolved around a fairly simple question: is sustainability an opportunity or a cost for businesses? Today, as Europe moves

A new Cornell-led report shows protecting nutrition now depends on integrating food and health systems as climate shocks strain both at once.

Trisha Atwood in USU's Department of Watershed Sciences is part of the global effort that resulted in a call on governments to explicitly include wildlife and their ecological roles in climate policy.

There are ways to reduce emissions without sacrificing yield. A new study shows how, and looks at a technique billed as ‘climate-friendly’ that makes emissions worse.

Men have a greater carbon footprint than women, drive the industries that contribute to global warming and ecological loss, and tend to be less concerned about climate change, according to a collection of research from around the world.  

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday adopted a resolution that reinforces member states' duties to protect the global climate system by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The resolution calls u...

This week’s General Assembly’s resolution welcoming the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change provides significant guidance. It calls upon all States to ‘comply with their respective obligations under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic […]

Reacting to Trump administration proposals calling for higher-paced processing, critics say protections for workers, animals and food safety are not the only concerns.