The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

Leaders of the BRICS group of developing nations addressed the shared challenges of global warming on Monday, the final day ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared the federal websites built to display them. The ...

As Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen tours the Pacific this week, nations’ legal obligations to phase out fossil ...

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to ...

In order to ensure people have the right information and form the right opinions about energy and climate, Morgera argues ...

Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

In a landmark advisory opinion, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that governments have a legal obligation to ...

Brazil knows the devastation climate change is causing better than most, yet its own state oil company's actions could stand ...

From Yellowstone to the Garden of Eden, almost 75% of the world's heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding, U.N. warns.