The EU is set to sign a long-awaited trade deal with South America's Mercosur, amid pressure from the US and China. It may offer unexplored opportunities, but critics say the environmental fallout is ...
A brutal arctic blast is bringing dangerously low temperatures to the Plains and Midwest before it invades the Northeast....
Keeping warm in the winter isn't easy in Finland, one of Europe's coldest countries. But in one Finnish town, residents are kept toasty warm thanks to cheap, efficient and renewable heat stored in a s...
Can Bitcoin mining heat grow food? A Manitoba pilot explores using crypto server heat to cut greenhouse energy costs and emissions....
South Africa's most renowned national reserve has shut its gates amid escalating floodwaters and heavy rainfall, which has already claimed at least 19 lives....
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The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red stea...
In 2021, when Beijing finally pledged to stop building and financing new coal power plants overseas, Western governments and climate advocates rejoiced. John Kerry, US climate envoy at the time, said ...
The world recorded its third-hottest year on record in 2025, extending an unprecedented streak of global heat with no relief expected in 2026, US and EU climate scientists said on Wednesday. The past ...
Decades of human activity have left “irreversible damage” to the planet’s water supply, a new report warns....
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, but harmless on the ground....
A major arctic blast is stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast, bringing dangerously cold weather to 43 million people....
The South is bracing for a potentially major winter storm this weekend, impacting Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee....
For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful....
After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding. Fewer than 300 of the parrots exist....
Global financing is heavily skewed to industries that harm rather than preserve nature, according to a new report that calls for an urgent scale-up of nature-positive spending....
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Trump seeks to shut it down. (Image credit: Steve Helber...
Life is slowly returning to normal in Russia’s far east after what residents are calling a “snow apocalypse.” A powerful cyclone dumped record snowfall on the Kamchatka region, burying homes, blocking...
Many US states issued a state of emergency as residents prepare for an ice storm. The cold front is expected to hit Texas and travel all the way to the northeastern cities of New York and Boston....
Shoppers across dozens of US states have begun stocking up ahead of the historic winter storm. Jesse Barber for BI Winter storm Fern is expected to impact more than 30 US states starting Friday mornin...