People wade through a flooded market in South Sudan in 2024. Heavy rains over several years have contributed to a widespread humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. People affected by the negative effects ...

General Plenary Session of Leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil, on Nov. 7, 2025. COP 30 Press Office/ handout/Anadolu—Getty Images This year’s U.N. climate summit, ...

Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, we should be seeing a massive ratcheting up of climate action. Instead, the past four years have seen almost no progress - including at the latest COP summit, ...

You’re probably familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint: a personal tally of transgressions that contribute to planet-warming emissions. The “carbon footprint” is well established in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. The changing climate is no longer a distant threat—it is here, now, ...

For decades, efforts across climate, conservation and development have shared a common aim: to protect people and ecosystems from harm. As scientific understanding advanced and financial markets ...

Most of the world’s people want stronger climate action—but don’t realize they’re the majority. Harmony Cummings holds a sign outside the office of Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) during a Time to ...

World leaders of about 197 countries, and with European Union, making 198, began holding early November what may turn out to be a most important summit in a long while, given the theme of the ...

Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities ...

As the 2026 Winter Games get started, here are some of the ways Olympic athletes are stepping up to take climate action.