EU countries consider a climate target for every decade
The proposal is an effort to keep countries on track to become climate neutral by 2050, reaching "net zero" emissions
LGBT+ Americans bear brunt of pandemic's economic crash
Gay and trans Americans are being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout.
OPINION: The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating global deforestation
But more remote monitoring - and action by consumers - can help
OPINION:- Proper nutrition is needed to defeat COVID. Rising atmospheric CO2 makes that harder.
Carbon dioxide can lower the nutritional quality of the food we consume
Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: boosting water security
Thousands of jobseekers have been recruited into a trench-building scheme aiming to boost scarce water supplies by catching rainfall
Race against rain to save historical homes of Beirut
Competing priorities as Lebanese scramble to rescue buildings of beauty post-blast
Coronavirus fuels modern slavery threat for Asian garment workers
for the first time, India and Bangladesh were in the 'extreme risk' category for slave labour
COVID hit to Costa Rica's gasoline tax stalls funding for forests
Petrol pump levy shrinks due to pandemic restrictions, threatening funding for a key program that pays farmers to protect forests
Portuguese youth sue European states over 'life-threatening' climate change
Lawsuit filed with European Court of Human Rights aims to force governments to step up efforts to cut emissions
Mexican court to hear youths' climate change case against government
Young people aged 17 to 23 have brought the case in an attempt to force officials to set clearer policies against climate change