Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that the ...

The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference ended in a political deadlock. COP30 in Belém produced no agreement to phase out fossil fuels, no binding plan to halt deforestation, and no ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

It provides Brazil’s world-beating farmers with water, and keeps carbon locked up for the rest of us ...

Martin Weitzman, an inventive economist who argued that governments would see climate change as a more urgent matter to address if they took more seriously the small but real risks of the most ...

The economist trying to save the planet with his own crystal ball - No one can predict the future... yet. Will Rogers-Coltman speaks to Professor Doyne Farmer about his lofty aims to build the world’s ...