(THE CONVERSATION) When President Donald Trump announced in early 2025 that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement for the second time, it triggered fears that the move would ...

Texas Republicans on Wednesday released a proposed new congressional map that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats ...

North America and parts of China and Africa among regions set to be hit hardest by extreme wind droughts, find researchers ...

The Trump administration fired the last of the US climate negotiators earlier this month, helping cement America’s withdrawal from international climate diplomacy. It may also have handed a huge ...

Whoever does not control their energy has no homeland. They have territory.” The energy world and the new colonialism Energy is not just electricity, nor ...

Compared with China’s more export-oriented eastern and southern coastal regions, the western region has long been regarded as ...

Interest in Greenland’s minerals is soaring, driven in part by Trump, who has said the U.S. must “get” the island. But the ...

Legal jurisdictions can no longer wring their hands in anguish and complain that they do not have enough authority or precedence to rule on matters relating to climate change.

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

The US first committed to the Paris Agreement in a joint announcement with China in 2015. The legally binding international treaty, which entered into force in November 2016, aims to hold "the ...

Heavy rain around Beijing and across north and northeast China has killed two and forced thousands to relocate as authorities ...

Severe rainfall in northern China, particularly around Beijing and its environs, has heightened risks of flooding and ...