Stories by Sara Schonhardt

All routes out of the landlocked country touch China or Russia, presenting diplomatic and physical challenges

Women in the U.S., India and Nigeria are losing money, economic opportunities and their health as temperatures rise

Good news: the world is discussing a treaty to stem plastic pollution. Bad news: fossil-fuel interests are trying to weaken it

The Goldman Environmental Prize has announced its 2023 awards. Three winners speak about their efforts to protect wilderness and fight polluters

Scientists say countries need to cut emissions far deeper to prevent catastrophic warming. That fact will hang over delegates when they meet later this year at the annual U.N. climate talks

Interest is building in using solar geoengineering to combat climate warming, but experts warn it could have broad—and inequitable—impacts

Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused widespread power cuts, spurring a rise in demand for residential solar power units

India is at an energy crossroads: if it chooses fossil fuels, it could undermine global climate targets

China accounted for nearly half of the world's low-carbon spending in 2022, which could challenge U.S. efforts to bolster domestic clean energy manufacturing

Extreme heat has provided some relief from Europe’s punishing energy crunch. Trouble looms, though, as it continues to seek alternative energy sources

Negotiators have gathered in Montreal for a United Nations summit aimed at hammering out a Paris-style agreement to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030

For the first time, the formal agenda of the U.N. climate talks will include discussion on how rich nations should pay poorer nations for the unavoidable impacts of climate change

Set against a backdrop of severe weather disasters, the COP27 climate summit is colliding with soaring energy costs, food insecurity and a looming recession

Climate adaptation—and funding to support it—will be a major focus of the COP 27 climate meeting set to start on Sunday in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

There are growing calls for a mechanism to pay developing countries for losses and damages they’ve suffered from climate change—a problem they did little to create

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has decried fossil-fuel companies receiving subsidies and investment “while household budgets shrink and our planet burns”

Early-warning systems for heat waves, floods and other hazards can save lives and property across the planet

The energy crisis caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine is testing Western leaders’ promises to phase out natural gas financing abroad

Small nations that have done little to cause global warming stand to suffer immeasurably and are increasingly vocal about receiving compensation

More products are being added to a proposed carbon border fee, affecting billions of dollars of American goods

The need to use coal to boost power supplies illustrates the challenge of quickly increasing renewable energy to avoid bigger climate impacts

Securing the needed minerals and metals could be a stumbling block to reaching its ambitious goals

Gender discrimination multiplies the challenges women face from climate change, a new U.N. report says

Cities are sinking as they guzzle groundwater—and oil and gas—from below