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As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar. When oil and gas companies made ambitious [...]

With the world on track for its hottest year in modern history, maybe you've decided to invest your money in a way that's better for the planet. Fossil fuel emissions [...]

The Oregon lawsuit alleges that the utility knew of the dangers of burning fossil fuels and misled its customers. Oregon officials have added the state's largest natural gas utility as [...]

The burning of fossil fuels has created more frequent and more intense heat waves. Experts warn these heat waves are ''the new normal.'' June was the Earth's 13th consecutive month [...]

His comments came as the world body's weather agency said it expected Earth to soon surpass the record high temperatures experienced in 2023. With the planet in the grips of [...]

The California governor, speaking at the Vatican, used sharp language to describe the former president's appeal to fossil fuel executives for campaign donations. Burnishing his climate credentials at a conference [...]

A growing number of colleges and universities are using deep underground pipes to heat and cool their buildings without burning fossil fuels. When administrators at Princeton University decided to cut [...]

Ajay Banga, who took over the top job in June, has prioritized global warming issues in his first months on the job. For years now, heads of state and government, [...]

The perils of a warming planet have become impossible to ignore. Sunday in New York was as pleasant as a late summer day can be. But as tens of thousands [...]

California's lawsuit against oil giants mirrors a legal strategy used in the 1990s against the tobacco industry. California is taking some of the world's biggest energy companies, including Shell, Exxon [...]

Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some [...]

In 2019, I happened to be visiting Phoenix on a 115-degree day. I had a meeting one afternoon about 10 blocks from the hotel where I was staying downtown. I [...]

Sixteen young people argue that the state is robbing their future by embracing policies that contribute to climate change. A landmark climate change trial opened on Monday in Montana, where [...]

The U.S. finds itself caught between defending President Biden's climate change agenda and aiding allies intent on increasing their access to fossil fuels. In theory, the world's largest industrialized democracies [...]

For almost half a century, the world has talked about quitting its addiction to fossil fuels. Yet, year after year, we remain stuck with the same old dirty energy system. [...]

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is shaping laws, running influence campaigns and taking legal action in a bid to promote fossil fuels. When a lawsuit was filed to block the [...]

A compromise built into the law ensures oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico for the next decade. Activists say the region has been ''sacrificed'' to fossil fuels. [...]

Game 6 Fix up old buildings so they don't need as much heat and air-conditioning 25 Build solar farms (which use the sun to create electricity) around the world 2 [...]

New York has ambitious electrification goals, but it lags behind other major cities in the United States significantly. There are just 15 electric public buses on the streets of New [...]

Climate scientists and fossil fuel executives use the same terms when they talk about an energy transition. But they mean starkly different things. Climate scientists, oil executives, progressives and conservatives [...]

In the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, government-owned energy companies are increasing oil and natural gas production as U.S. and European companies pare supply because of climate concerns. HOUSTON [...]

How to cool the planet? The energy infrastructure that powers our civilization must be rebuilt, replacing fossil fuels with carbon-free sources such as solar or nuclear. But even then, zeroing [...]

Massive volcanic eruptions ignited oil and coal deposits in Siberia in the events that led to the Permian-Triassic ''Great Dying'' event. Paleontologists call it the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but it [...]

Lockdowns and distancing won't save the world from warming. But amid this crisis, we have a chance to build a better future. Something strange is happening. Not just the illness [...]

WASHINGTON -- Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide from fossil fuels hit a record high in 2019, researchers said Tuesday, putting countries farther off course from their goal of halting global [...]

From the deck of a boat in New York harbor, the chief executive of Equinor squinted toward a stretch of sea where his oil company will soon build a giant [...]

For Democrats vying to unseat President Trump, acknowledging climate change is easy. Deciding what to do about it is the hard part. Among the 18 declared candidates, there is no [...]

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter.WASHINGTON -- America's carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase [...]

BOULDER, Colo. -- Behind a locked door on the ground floor of a new University of Colorado science center here, a laboratory outfitted with specially reinforced concrete floors sits dark [...]

Could the entire American economy run on renewable energy alone? This may seem like an irrelevant question, given that both the White House and Congress are controlled by a party [...]

A group of Republican elder statesmen is calling for a tax on carbon emissions to fight climate change. The group, led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, [...]

IN less than a month, delegates from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris to finalize a sweeping agreement intended to constrain human influence on the climate. But any [...]

The climate has been changing forever. It will continue to change. Some scientists believe that humans have a direct impact on it. But trying to curb carbon emissions to slow [...]

LONDON -- Deep in Canada's oil country, a group of energy companies is trying to perform something close to a miracle: making dirty fossil fuels green. The project -- buoyed [...]

MACON, Ga. -- For many Americans, propane is that stuff from the home improvement store that fuels backyard barbecues and patio dinners. But in a growing number of cities across [...]

HONG KONG -- Under pressure to reduce smog and greenhouse gas emissions, the Chinese government is considering a mandatory cap on coal use, the main source of carbon pollution from [...]

This month, the world will get a new report from a United Nations panel about the science of climate change. Scientists will soon meet in Stockholm to put the finishing [...]

The current issue of the journal Science contains a proposal to slow global warming that is extraordinary for a couple of reasons: 1. In theory, it would help people living [...]

A sharp new debate has sprung up among atmospheric scientists over where to aim efforts to stave off the prospect of global warming from the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases […]