Sir — It is difficult to keep one’s cool when people, including world leaders, downplay the urgency of preventing global warming. But a recent study indicates that they might have to take the heat...

They prepared for icy cold and trained to be on the watch for polar bears, but a pandemic just wasn't part of the program.Now dozens of scientists are waiting in quarantine for the all-clear to join a...

Sir — A new study claims that the ecosystems of the world’s tropical oceans are headed for a collapse in the next 10 years. This comes on the back of one the most consistent bouts of global warmin...

It is misleading to cast environmental safeguards and economic development as conflicting concerns. A recent report by McKinsey Global Institute shows that environmental degradation is in fact directl...

The world could lose half of its winegrape cultivation areas if rising global temperatures are not capped at 2°C, scientists said on Monday predicting the need for disruptive changes in the wine prod...

In his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum states that humanity is at the cusp of a revolution that is characterized by a range of new technologies, which ...

After two weeks of talks on tackling global warming, nations have little progress to show for it.Negotiators from almost 200 nations planned to gather for a final time at the U.N. climate meeting in M...

Farzana, the seamstress, asks in anguish, ‘Why do they break our little houses?’ Kailash, the fireman, is equally distressed; ‘Why are they closing down the kilns?’ Both are agonizing over env...

The U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq can break through ice as thick as 2.5 feet (0.76 meters). In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely wo...

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