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Development and groundwater pumping are causing land subsidence and heightening the risks of sea level rise.

Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.

Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and winning.

The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing.

Scientists used tree rings to compare last year’s extreme heat with temperatures over the past two millenniums.

Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

More than 20 new marine protected areas in coastal waters were announced at the third U.N. ocean conference this week. Experts say thousands more are needed.