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Energy minister Karine Elharrar says she was taken to several entrances on Monday, the first full day of the conference, but was unable to get inside from any of them.

Bush set a 2025 target date for the U.S. to slow growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but remains leery of any plan that would hurt economic growth.

The Dixie Fire has been burning for weeks — threatening a series of small towns in the Sierra Nevada. More than 5,000 firefighters are working to contain the blaze.

A large chunk of ice broke off an Alpine glacier in the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy — triggering an avalanche that killed several people.

El Niño helped drive global average temperatures to new records over the last year. Forecasters say it's waning, but that 2024 may still be one for the record books.

Helene is dumping rain across the Southeast, after coming ashore as a powerful Category 4 storm. Abnormally warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped it rapidly intensify and suck up moisture.

Our occasional feature "First Mention" finds the phrase "global warming" was used for the first time on NPR in 1989.

The 39-year-old former South Bend, Ind. mayor is both the first openly gay man confirmed to a Cabinet position and the youngest member of President Biden's Cabinet.

The lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary couldn't sum up the year in just one word — so they went with a whole list instead.

The study finds that improved forest practices including increased stocking of trees could bolster carbon storage by an estimated 488 million metric tons. The authors say that's nearly a quarter of the emissions reductions New England needs to reach net-zero by 2050.