The UN’s secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has unexpectedly said he will join climate activists calling for strong action to tackle climate change in New York during the...
Artists, helped by community members and experts, have drown a blue chalk line across Bristol to show which parts of the city would be underwater because...
The government has outlined an action plan to ensure a global climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ahead of UN conference in Paris in 2015...
The UN is set to release a series of imagined, but probable weather forecasts to highlight how extreme weather events will increase in frequency and intensity...
Today more than 500 members of the public will hear whether they have been chosen to attend the UN Climate Summit in September. Environmental activists from...
The Antarctic ice sheets could be melting at a faster pace than previously thought, potentially leading to faster rising sea levels and posing a risk to...
Ahead of the United Nations climate talks set to take place in New York on September 23rd, campaign group 350.org have called for a weekend of...
The multinational bank Standard Chartered has warned it faces further fines, remedial action and an extended monitoring period as New York’s financial regulator found problems with...
Most of the world’s major cities, from London to São Paulo, have warned that climate change presents a very real, physical risk to the businesses that...
The mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio is leading a coalition of US mayors advocating for greater social and economic equality in cities across...
SolarCity, the rooftop solar panel business backed by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, has announced plans to expand its production to 1,000 megawatts (MW) a year in...
Union Theological Seminary in New York has become the first institution of its kind to divest its $108.4m (£64.57m) endowment from fossil fuels, which it says...
Cities – those grey, urban, concrete structures – could be the green centres of the modern world. Rolling hills and lush fields may be actually green,...
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, now in his new role as a UN special envoy, said on Tuesday that it is cities and their...
Prominent environmental campaigner Bill McKibben has issued a “call to arms” to everyone concerned about the lack of international action on climate change, urging them to...