Sustainability Science

In a blow to campaigners, judges say ministers' decision to approve the runway was legitimate.

Emissions have dropped 5.5 percent, but they need to be cut more than that — every year — to prevent the most dangerous climate change threats

As schools close, as workers are asked to stay home, and as concerts and sports events are put on hold in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic, the practice of social distancing is having a collateral benefit — it's slowing the climate crisis.

Reporters in 14 newsrooms across the Midwest teamed up with InsideClimate News to explore local solutions to climate change.

A new report bucks the conventional wisdom on clean-energy mandates.

Retailers are opening the door to collaboration with suppliers, creating opportunities to reduce environmental impact and improve the bottom line. 

In a study released Thursday, a group of scientists announced the creation of what they say is a significantly cheaper method to scrub carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.

“In the overall global supply-demand picture, it is not going to wreck the train."

Imagine a California future where fossil fuels are never used to generate electricity. That's a proposal lawmakers are considering now. What would it take to hit that goal?

Coal is still very much at the center of the debate on the future of energy. For some, the holy grail is a new type of technology that captures some coal carbon emissions. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to take a closer look at the results coming out of one of the largest fossil fuel power plants in the country and the obstacles stopping them from collecting more.

The multi-trillion-dollar ‘big crash’ could start as soon as 2023, Bloomberg warns.

A new study reaffirms that contrail clouds produce more global warming than carbon dioxide from flights, a finding that could help reduce emissions from air travel.

Ask the Editors: Sustainable aviation fuels are technically viable today; it is their economic viability that remains in question.

This is the energy crisis nobody saw coming.

These are hard questions for the flying public; there are no easy answers. And they could alter your travel life.

With the Green New Deal sparking a national conversation about all the ways to combat climate change, John Oliver looks at a few potential solutions

The County Misses Its Target By A Whopping 29 Percentage Points.

The UK will stop burning coal for electricity by 2025. The US, meanwhile, is trying to end the “war on coal.”

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Water comes from a deep ocean current off the coast of Hawaii and is desalinated using reverse osmosis

To stay sane, environmental activists have to live by the mantra, "you win some, you lose some." Earlier today (May 31), Reuters and Axios both cited sources saying president Donald Trump will likely pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement. Almost as if to make up for it, on the same day

U.S. energy-related carbon pollution fell in 2016, part of a decade-long trend as utilities use less coal in favor of natural gas.