David Gelles

Utah passed a law to insulate oil companies against efforts to make them pay for their role in global warming. A nationwide version is in the works.

Republicans at the state and federal levels are working to shield fossil fuel companies from laws and legal claims that aim to make them pay for some of the damage caused by climate change.

SCIENTISTS who study global warming are currently wrestling with a question that, while seemingly technical, is profoundly consequential: Is climate change accelerating?

Once held up as a key solution to climate change, a field that aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere is struggling to catch on.

Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But the nascent industry’s proponents say they are thinking in decades, not years.

By Over the past several years, Microsoft almost single-handedly established the market for carbon dioxide-removal technologies, a nascent

In a year of grim climate and environment news, we’ve compiled several hopeful signs about our planet’s future.

Microsoft has been the biggest supporter of the much-hyped market for carbon removal technologies, which are designed to remove a key planet-warming gas from th

Court of Appeal confirms that every dollar earned in a new job must be deducted from wrongful dismissal damages

Experts say a powerful El Niño weather pattern could be forming, which could put serious strain on a planet that is already dangerously heating up.