Scorched Earth tactics being used by embattled ISIL militants in Iraq demonstrate that the environment is often a “silent casualty” of war, the heads of two UN bodies have said.

Ms. Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—the person who led COP21 and the Paris Agreement—has called upon the world to act with a sense of binding urgency and “swallow the alarm clock.”

A potential influx of legal and illegal mining leaves the country's megadiverse landscapes—and the communities who depend on them—in jeopardy

On Friday the Paris Agreement enters into force.

UNICEF: Air pollution contributes to 600K child deaths annually. Study reveals huge number of children breathing toxic fumes more than six times over safe limits.

The company is accused of ignoring its own climate change science for years.

States are urged to comply with the environmental provisions of international humanitarian law and to consider reflecting the ICRC’s 1996 guidelines on environmental conduct in war in their military manuals.

To mark the UN’s environment and conflict day last year the Toxic Remnants of War Project published a major new report that explores how a more formalized system of post-conflict assistance could increase the protection of civilians and their environment....

Rwanda, which has worked to emerge from the shadows of its 1994 genocide, hopes to become known as well for the forging of a major climate deal.

Stopping one fighter plane program would save enough to build wind farms to power 320,000 homes. We need to drastically reassess our priorities

The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.