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"If we want to stave off a coming mass extinction, we're going to need to do more to conserve land and waters to protect species," says University of California, Berkeley's Arthur Middelton.
"We are financing horrific crime around the globe," said Alexander von Bismarck, executive director of the Environmental Investigation Agency.
"There is no long-term future for cars with an internal combustion engine," Volvo's chief technology officer said.
Intergovernmental agency says resurgence in economic activity, lack of clean energy policies mean higher emissions than before pandemic in many nations.
The important number helps form a wide range of policies regulating industry and energy production.
Global emissions must be reduced by roughly 45% by 2030 to limit devastating impacts of climate change, but nations are on track to reduce emissions by less than 1%, report says.
The director general of WWF-Mexico urged governments and scientists to work on addressing the issue.
New study finds evidence of an unprecedented slowdown in North Atlantic Ocean circulation, likely to due to human-caused climate change.
California's coastal redwoods, some standing since before Julius Caesar ruled Rome, are in a fight for their lives.
California's iconic coastal redwoods are struggling to recover after wildfires ripped through the state over the summer. Making things worse, climate change is affecting the coastal fog that helps feed the trees. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli reports.
80 freshwater species have already been declared extinct — 16 of them in 2020 alone.
The Northern Sea Route is a shortcut across the Arctic that can save shipping companies a lot of cash, but was never passable in the winter, until now.
Coastal cities face biggest property losses, but so do inland areas that rarely see bad water damage. Annual tab: $20 billion — and rising.
Meteorologists saw this extreme winter weather coming weeks in advance. Here's what is causing it.
As secretary of state in 2016, John Kerry signed the Paris climate accord. Now, after the Trump administration withdrew, the U.S. is recommitting.
Hot-weather infrastructure and an isolated power grid have left the state unprepared for extreme weather.
Last year was the first time the U.S. got more power from renewable energy than from coal.
"There is no employment, there is nothing," said a father of three from Honduras whose home was destroyed by hurricanes. "It hurts me to leave, but I believe I have to."
With Tesla, Elon Musk has helped electric cars become more mainstream.
The billionaire philanthropist called the effort "bigger than anything humanity has done to date."
Of the 50,000 glaciers in the fragile Himalayan Hindu Kush range, only 24 are being monitored. Unless that changes, experts say more catastrophes are guaranteed.
Researchers found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 due to fossil fuel emissions.
The study looked at changes in the forests of Southeast Asia — "a global hotspot" for bat species.
The U.S. emits the second-most carbon dioxide in the world annually, and inaccurate emission data could prevent cities from effectively tackling climate change.
A court has found the French government guilty of failing to meet environmental commitments it made in a landmark deal named after France's own capital city.
Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have dulled this year's autumn colors and sent leaves fluttering to the ground earlier than usual.
One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of Threatened Species.
As Japan faces rising human-bear encounters, an animal trapped in a grocery store injured two men, while a separate reported mauling proved fatal.
The images taken by two Mars orbiters show a bright, fuzzy white dot of the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, appearing to move against a backdrop of distant stars.
One of 2025's three Nobel Prize in Physics winners says the trio's work is "one of the underlying reasons that cellphones work.''
Bill Nye the Science Guy on Monday protested against a federal budget proposal that would see NASA's funding reduced from $24 billion to $18.8 billion.
Nobel Prize committee chair says discoveries by the trio of researchers were "decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions."
The first supermoon of 2025 will arrive soon. Here's what to know about the phenomenon.
ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of 6 billion tons a second.
Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks near its south pole.
Famed naturalist Jane Goodall, who dedicated her life to studying chimpanzees and protecting the environment, died on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 at age 91. In this Oct. 24, 2021 "Sunday Morning" profile, she talked with Seth Doane about her fascination with animals, her groundbreaking work with primates, and her advocacy for a more sustainable future.
The outer bands of Humberto lashed Bermuda ahead of a more direct pass from the newer and stronger Hurricane Imelda.
The chirping of crickets in your backyard can be a soothing seasonal sound, but did you know it's also an accurate way to tell the temperature – if you know the mathematical formula? Robert Krulwich and puppeteer Barnaby Dixon explain.
The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.
The study's author said "there is some irony" in the discovery that these "things that are meant to kill everything are now attracting so much life."