Some restrictions prevent loosening of existing environmental standards for clean air and water. Other rules can be changed – though only through a challenging and multistep democratic process.

At the centre of the social and ecological polycrisis is a religious crisis of the human heart.

In the battle to slow climate change, local and state governments, as well as citizens, have taken to the courts. Their results have varied, but the cases keep coming.

Katy Perry and friends were savaged after their journey into space. The backlash is justified.

About 40% of total US energy consumption is used by household and industrial appliances, such as heating and cooling systems, refrigerators and lighting.

The UN has agreed to charge ships for the greenhouse gases they emit – but the price is far too low.

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study

BIOCAP tiles reimagine seawalls as dynamic, ecologically active systems that have the potential to enhance coastal resilience.

With projected global warming, the frequency of extreme storms will ramp up by the end of the century, according to a new study.

Corporate decisions made in boardrooms and through initiatives with nonprofits have created an important kind of private climate governance.