Despite the meteoric rise of wind and solar, fossil energy sources have met most new demand in fast-growing economies.

Fossil fuel power plants can avoid most emissions by capturing carbon dioxide and pumping it underground. But to be a climate solution, that carbon has to stay stored for thousands of years.

Some rocks will burn, and others will melt, depending on how they were formed and what minerals they contain.

After the Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s strategy for reducing power plant carbon emissions in 2022, the Biden administration is taking a narrower but still ambitious approach.

Developing countries are expected to quit coal faster than any energy transition in history.

Local people describe a purposeful past in this former mining community – and a bleak future.

As opponents of the Whitehaven Colliery protest, an expert on the cultural history of British landscapes revisits an 18th-century poem that reminds us of the town’s industrious spirit.

Here’s what I’ve learned from researching the history of UK climate policy.