Before the conference kicked off this year, host country Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cast this as the “implementation COP” and called for negotiators to focus on action, and ...

Despite the weak agreement seen at the COP30 climate conference, Brazil was right to prioritize discussing the eventual phase ...

The symbolism was undeniable when fire erupted at the COP30 climate talks just as negotiators considered phasing out fossil ...

Regulatory inertia, political gridlock, and a lack of investment are holding back renewable energy deployment in much of the ...

Politics is just one challenge. The cost of borrowing to build wind and solar farms is another, especially in fast-growing ...

Many countries and environmentalists expressed outrage that the main cause of climate change was not included in a draft deal ...

In letters published Nov. 24-30, 2025, readers praise LSI, Dogpatch and Terry Branstad but are down on the EPA, the DOE and ...

As the long arm of the fossil fuel lobby enters the classroom, some US science teachers are finding their job requires more than simply imparting knowledge and wisdom.That Jeff Grant signs off his ...

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen thinks so, pointing to progress made since the Paris Agreement a decade ago, but says nations must go further, and wean off fossil fuels. The Danish economist, ...

In North America, cleantech is often dismissed as an overpriced niche for tree huggers and climate alarmists. It comes with a “green premium,” say critics who, apparently, have barricaded themselves ...

Airplane travel is more popular than ever, and our desire for fast transportation means jet fuel has become a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Now, researchers at the University of ...

A few years ago, there was a big frenzy about “quiet quitting,” the idea that kids these days might show up to their jobs but not work very hard at them. Bill Gates seems to be quiet-quitting the ...