Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday.

The obvious market response has been to seek emissions reductions through plant efficiencies, buying carbon offsets or sourcing from smelters powered by renewables. 

A Dutch scientist who is among a group of researchers reportedly banned from conducting research in Indonesia by the Environment and Forestry Ministry for their critical writings says he is concerned about the state of scientific freedom in the country.

A growing number of mining companies announced their commitment to diversify their business portfolio away from coal, although they still aim to maximize profits from coal production. 

Tangerang regency is set to host the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia’s (PEMSEA) Network of Local Governments’ Forum Summit in October later this year.

A comprehensive legal framework for environmental protection has helped Brazil keep more than 60 percent of its original forests.

Greenpeace UK said it had dropped 18 large boulders on the seabed in a marine conservation zone off the coast of southwest England to prevent "destructive" industrial fishing.

Scorching temperatures in eastern China have pushed up egg prices because hens are laying fewer in a hotter-than-usual summer.

Action on climate change is an international environmental imperative but it is also an economic opportunity.

The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change and a crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave spread across half of China.

For Suraj Prajapati, a mother of two who lives in the arid northern Indian state of Rajasthan, fighting for access to clean drinking water at her doorstep required extraordinary measures.

Jakartans — especially those living in areas unreached by the city’s pipe network — are still struggling to access clean potable water as scientists predict that climate change will disrupt water balance and a harsher El Niño can potentially spell problems for the city’s water resources.

All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week.

A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heatwave has spread across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau.

A fleet of 14 trains provided by French industrial giant Alstom to the German state Lower Saxony will replace the diesel locomotives on the 100 kilometers of track connecting the cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude near Hamburg.

Coal will still become one of Indonesia’s key growth drivers in years to come, despite a steady shift to renewable energy, as the ‘black gold’ commodity prices are poised to remain elevated due to robust demand amid supply disruptions.

Three years ago, Kenya's Lake Turkana started rising dramatically, lapping at the El Molo's dome-shaped huts draped in dry fish, then pushing inland, forcing villagers to higher ground.

The women of North Sulawesi’s Sangihe Island stand on the frontlines in battles against corporations aiming to exploit their homeland.

As Widuchowa's residents searched for tools to remove the lifeless bodies from the the river, the government began crisis response that many scientists say came too late.

Eco-friendly building materials can be a solution to minimize plastic waste, but challenges, including costly production, persist.

The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighbouring Turkey and Iran.

From the bottom up, the architecture should include security modules of different layers, so that companies can build trustworthy data security solutions on the cloud layer by layer.

Incorporating a comprehensive framework on climate resilience, including instruments for adaptation and risk mitigation, can drive public-private partnerships in developing climate-resilient infrastructure so we get it right the first time.

According to Article 9 of the OST 1967, state parties shall avoid any harmful contamination of the Earth's environment. 

Footprints laid down by Ice Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a United States desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants.

Kurdish Iraqi farmer Azad Muhamad has become a social media star by sharing tips on growing fresh fruit and vegetables in the sun-parched country that is highly vulnerable to climate change.

Hopes of saving a malnourished beluga whale that had swum up the Seine River were fading on Sunday as rescuers said they were in a race against the clock to find a solution.

The recovery in the central and northern stretches of the UNESCO world heritage-listed reef contrasted with the southern region, where there was a loss of coral cover due to crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks, the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) said in its annual report.

The melodic songs from families of endangered monkeys ring out over the jungle near Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex -- a sign of ecological rejuvenation decades after hunting decimated wildlife at the site.

A land iguana that disappeared more than a century ago from one of the Galapagos Islands is reproducing naturally following its reintroduction there, Ecuador's environment ministry announced Monday.