Fight, flee, or wait and see? Locals face hard choices as Louisiana coast recedes.
Some 120,000 people live on the shrinking lowlands south of New Orleans - but getting their attention to looming environmental threats is no easy...
With colour-coded warnings, Indian city gets serious about dirty air.
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Hamburg is ready to fill up with hydrogen. Customers aren't so sure.
By STANLEY REEDJuly 4, 2017HAMBURG, Germany — With its sleek architecture, the gas station in this city’s famous warehouse district hints at the future of fueling.A...
Climate change expected to fuel larger forest fires – if it hasn't already.
Global warming will likely heighten the risk of large, more difficult to control wildfires scorching the western United States.
It’s the main conclusion of a...
Too much rain: China's floods roil hydropower, corn supplies.
Severe flooding across southern China has forced the world's largest power plant to slash capacity on Tuesday, delayed grain on barges and damaged...
How Australia bungled climate policy to create a decade of disappointment.
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Unlike the UK, Australia has never had climate consensus – and it has been costly, argues Labor frontbencher Mark Butler in an extract...
Unique coral reef at risk as oil companies plan to drill near Amazon river.
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Oil companies planning to drill near mouth of the river have calculated that the ecosystem has a 30% chance of being affected in the...
Climate change threatens nomadic life in Morocco
Many of Morocco’s former nomads have settled in M’Hamid El Ghizlane, an oasis town of about 7,500 close to the Algerian border.(Photo: Mary Mathis)
M’HAMID...
Big banks fail to clear climate test
By Soumya SarkarThe world's biggest banks are continuing to fuel climate change through the financing of "extreme" fossil fuels at a rate that will...
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