Asia-Pacific accounts for about three-quarters of global coal consumption -- even as the region struggles with the environmental and public health impacts of global warming, from deadly levels of air pollution in India to extreme heatwaves and wildfires in Australia. 

Focus on local food systems enables more accurate mapping of critical and vulnerable events and rapid interventions to manage food emergencies that often can be resolved locally.

While the Russian president was notorious for years for his scepticism about man-made global warming, he has changed tune in recent months.

As the days count down to COP26, a virtual public discussion of diplomats in Jakarta has concurred that the time is nigh for parties to the Paris Accords to stop haggling and finalize the mechanism for international emissions trading.

Up to 131,000 gallons of crude could have leaked into the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the United States when a pipeline ruptured at the weekend.

Coral reefs -- often dubbed the "rainforests of the oceans" -- are under threat everywhere as rising sea temperatures and acidification cause catastrophic "bleaching" events.

New features will provide users with ways to help in the effort, whether it be driving routes that result in less exhaust being spewed from cars or shopping online for energy-efficient appliances.

The US Coast Guard, heading a clean-up response involving federal, state and city agencies, said on Sunday there was an around-the-clock investigation into how the spill occurred.

Only about 10 families, out of 200 who once lived there, are still in their homes. The village once was buoyant and loud; now, it's dead quiet.

The Right Livelihood Award recognises environmental and international development achievements skipped by the traditional Nobels.

DiCaprio has bought an unspecified stake in Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, two companies developing protein products grown from cow cells -- an emerging area in the growing alternative meat market.

With no signs of an extension of the oil palm concession moratorium, environmentalists are worried that the 2020 Job Creation Law and the implementing regulations that are supposed to supplant the ban might run counter to its original spirit, by giving amnesty to plantations in forest areas.

The moratorium, enacted by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo three years ago required government agencies to stop granting new licenses for palm oil concessions and to review existing ones every three years.

It will be six months on Sunday that Reykjavik's volcanic eruption first began, making it the longest Iceland has witnessed in more than 50 years.

The petitioners in fact took action – and took the risks – on behalf of the silent majority who shared the same cause but lacked the guts, time and energy to fight for their basic right.

Ruling on a citizen lawsuit on Thursday, judges found senior officials were culpable in failing to prevent, monitor and control unhealthy pollution levels in and around the capital.

The comments, made in an open letter to state-controlled BoC's chairman Liu Liange and signed by groups from 13 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe, add to the growing criticism of China for financing coal-fired power stations overseas, especially as part of its Belt and Road Initiative.

Indonesia and Norway are at odds over which country is responsible for the collapse of an agreement to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation.

In their search for pink river dolphins, researchers in the Peruvian Amazon scooped up river water sloshing with genetic material that they hoped could trace the elusive creatures. 

Winemakers in northern Greece are diving into the unknown by plunging hundreds of bottles of their wine into the depths of the local river.

Water tanks, fire trucks and helicopters: California's Napa Valley winemakers are buying their own equipment to protect their property and their pricey vintages from wildfires.

Just off the northern coast of Iceland, scientists are collecting data from whales' breath to find out if they get stressed by whale-watching boats.

Trapped on island habitats made smaller by rising seas, Indonesia's Komodo dragons were listed as "endangered" in the wildlife Red List that also warned overfishing threatens nearly two-in-five sharks with extinction.

Like the more than 3,000 species of butterflies in Colombia, agronomist Juan Guillermo Jaramillo underwent his own metamorphosis several years ago, as his passion for photographing nature took an unexpected twist.

South America's second longest river, the Parana, has dropped to its lowest level since the 1940s, leaving environmentalists and experts worried that climate change is to blame.

With the world's biggest biodiversity summit set to kick off Friday in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, experts are sounding the alarm over a long-overlooked seagrass increasingly threatened by human activity.

According to the State of the World's Trees report 17,500 tree species - some 30 percent of the total - are a risk of extinction, while 440 species have fewer than 50 individuals left in the wild.

Families of a giant rodent native to South America have been invading a luxury gated community in Argentina, highlighting the country's controversial environmental and social policies.

Home to once bustling flora and fauna, experts now warn that the swamp forest, one of the last of its kind in the West African country and accessible only by canoe, is at risk of disappearing.

Hundreds of Aussie sporting heroes -- from rugby captain Michael Hooper, to pace bowler Pat Cummins and world champion surfer Mick Fanning -- teamed up Monday to demand the government do more to tackle climate change.