The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The ...

While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Rivka Galchen on narratives of our era of strange, changing weather.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.

Nations must protect current and future generations from environmental harm, says the International Court of Justice.

Today, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States to protect the ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, where researchers led by Stewart Jamieson from ...

Judges at the UN’s highest court are set to issue a decision Wednesday that could set a legal benchmark for action on the ...

Throughout history, people have viewed seasons as relatively stable, recurrent blocks of time that neatly align farming, ...

As temperatures, biodiversity losses, and sea levels rise globally, scientists are concerned about the likelihood of abrupt ...