The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has launched the process to re-establish the state’s signature Climate Protection Program that a court last year invalidated over a technicality. The ...

New York's climate protection law appears set to be weakened as state lawmakers approved changes to the landmark measure as part of a bigger state budget bill passed on Tuesday, May 26. The state's ...

The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels will appear at legal hearings at an international court in Hamburg, Germany, on Monday, and seek an ...

Oregon environmental regulators say they plan to re-establish the state’s signature Climate Protection Program after a court ruling invalidated it a month ago. State Department of Environmental ...

New research shows that protected forests with dense canopies are warming more slowly than nearby forests without protection, which buffers plant and animals living near the ground from global warming ...

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have developed a new method to predict coral bleaching five to six months before it occurs, giving reef managers valuable time to protect ...

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THE HAGUE — The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from ...

Oregon is asking the public to weigh in on a plan to reboot the Climate Protection Program, which aims to reduce carbon emissions from oil and gas companies and support some of the communities that ...