No other countries have followed the United States in withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, but the Trump administration is using a mix of lobbying and economic threats to thwart ...

Illegal logging, gold mining, and drug trafficking: Organized crime in Brazil is sabotaging efforts to combat global warming. This issue has long been overlooked at climate conferences. Is that ...

This year’s U.N. climate summit, COP30, opened with a moment that should have set the tone for a new era. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared it the “COP of Truth,” rooted in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The White House has opted to not send any high-ranking U.S. officials to the U.N.’s annual COP global climate ...

Everett Hamner is an English professor at WIU. He said the conference emphasized urgent climate action, global collaboration ...

BELEM – With a spotlight on the Brazilian Amazon, where agriculture drives a significant chunk of deforestation and planet-warming emissions, many of the activists, scientists and government leaders ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Three hundred mayors from major world cities gathered in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action days ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Despite historic environmental rollbacks under a president who pulled the United ...

U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders are offering “prayers of support and solidarity” for world leaders who will discuss climate change and other environmental matters at an upcoming conference.