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Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project.

Heather Reams, the longtime leader, describes the industry’s challenges—and who deserves a seat under a “bigger tent.” ...

Beijing has a track record of only promising what it plans to deliver. But too often the world’s attention is elsewhere.

China has revealed its goal for slashing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, providing a glimpse into how global emissions might change over the next decade. In a video address to the United Nations ...

China’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities.

China traded tit-for-tat tariffs with the United States, but it otherwise remained content to sit back and accrue benefits from Trump’s alienation of U.S. allies and withdrawal from international ...

The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world's largest lithium mines in ...

The Trump administration is moving to lift a Biden-era ban on coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, a region of rolling grasslands in southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming that pumps out 40 ...

As global temperatures rise, thermal expansion of oceans and melting ice sheets are driving up sea levels worldwide. In many coastal areas, land subsidence—caused by groundwater extraction and rapid ...

Greece has achieved impressive emissions reductions, surpassing the target just announced by China for 2035 – what do international data show about the ...