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The city, where Target is headquartered, is pressuring big brands to “abandon fossil-fueled ships.”
European legislators have agreed to regulate emissions from the shipping industry as part of the European Union’s emission trading system, one of the world’s largest carbon markets.
A U.N. plan to avoid a spill four times larger than the Exxon Valdez is "only half a solution, but it’s better than nothing.”
Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships.
In ecosystems like Alaska’s boreal forest, preventing biodiversity loss is no longer possible. Scientists are beginning to grapple with what comes next.
Silicon is facing bottlenecks and trade sanctions. Is this cadmium telluride's moment?
Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.
Experts say getting to net-zero will require more research and government support.
Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous.