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At COP26, island nations push hard for countries to meet goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degr

Ongoing drought devastates parts of Kenya

Professional tree planting: 'It's a combination between industrial labor and high-intensity sport'

This teen climate activist is blazing a new path to raise environmental awareness in China

Oil giant Saudi Arabia says it wants to get to net-zero emissions by 2060. But critics question its

‘Without our territory, we are nothing’: Violence against Indigenous peoples spikes in Brazil

Why COP26 is the ‘last, best hope’ for fighting climate change

‘We might be pushed out of business’: Ghana’s vegetable sellers see produce dwindle due to climate c

Foragers in Catalonia embrace a new mushroom-hunting season after last year’s strict lockdown

Efforts underway to create and expand new habitats for China's wandering elephants

How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana

A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding. It could cut off humanitarian aid to

DR Congo faces criticism over plans to open Congo rainforest to commercial logging

In Kenya, trees and giraffes hold an agreement: 'Do not harm me'

New WHO air pollution standards could save millions of lives each year

US credibility on climate on the line in Washington

Spain vows to help rebuild La Palma after devastating volcano eruption

Winegrowers in France experiment with hybrid grape varieties to combat climate change

'They Knew': A new book chronicles 50 years of US govt's failure to address the climate crisis

Study finds widespread climate anxiety among youth