Peru grants legal rights to native stingless bees, setting a global precedent to protect key pollinators in the Amazon rainforest.

For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood and soils, and slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases. A new scientific ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%. The loss of vegetation leads to an increase in surface temperature, a ...

Overturning the 2009 decision will lead to billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

In a community centre in the heart of Ghana’s cocoa-rich Sui River region in western Ghana, two dozen people gather to ...

Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Scientists first outlined the prospect of a Hothouse Earth in 2018, warning that cascading tipping points could lock the planet into sustained warming well above 4C for thousands of years. The new ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

Scientists say that multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following a "hothouse" path driven by feedback ...

Warming is accelerating, threatening a cascade of tipping points that destabilize the climate. In a new paper, scientists say ...

Oregon State University scientists are raising alarms about the planet's trajectory towards a “hothouse” Earth.