What's next for bitcoin and crypto? The trends to watch in 2022
As countries mull whether to ban, regulate or embrace digital coins and climate activists mount an increasingly vocal opposition to the energy-intensive sector, we asked crypto experts their predictions for 2022
In Brazil, charcoal industry fuels illegal deforestation and slavery
Brazil's charcoal industry - to fuel steel mills and barbecues - is built on labour rights abuses and wood illegally cut from the endangered Cerrado, inspectors say
Solar power projects see the light on former Appalachian coal land
Six new solar plants on former Virginia coal mines are among the first such projects in the United States - and could help fossil-fuel communities shift to a greener economy
Prayers, petitions and boycotts: Desmond Tutu's climate activism
Following the death of South African anti-apartheid and peace icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, here are some of the ways he also advocated for a healthy planet
Germany will probably miss climate targets - environment minister
The new coalition government has presented plans to step up climate protection efforts after a top court in April mandated more ambitious CO2 reduction targets
OPINION: Three changes needed to pull off COP26 forest and land use pledges
Solutions must be created on the ground by local government, farming communities and food businesses
What can world leaders do to make COP26 deforestation pledge a success?
Cutting down forests has major implications for global goals to curb warming, as trees absorb about a third of the planet-heating carbon emissions produced worldwide
Run, rebuild, repeat as floods eat away at India's indigenous land
Each time flash floods engulf their villages, the Mising people shift their homes further inland - but after a decade of flooding and riverbank erosion, they are running out of space
Blackouts, financial meltdowns and a petrol crisis - the year Lebanon unravelled
In 2021, Lebanon’s financial meltdown turned two – and we learned what it means to see a country come undone.
Malaysia seeks U.N. climate adaptation funds amid deadly floods
Torrential rain has caused severe flooding that killed at least 48 people in Malaysia, prompting calls for the government to improve its preparedness to extreme weather events