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Mayor is letting down Londoners by leaving out a manifesto pledge to create a not-for-profit energy company from his new environment strategy, say green groups

Readers share their thoughts on electricity generation, cars, cycling, trains and garden citiesGeorge Monbiot makes some useful points in his article bemoaning the influence of the lobbying power of the motor industry (We...

Readers respond to Britain’s latest clean air plan and the ban on all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040So, the government is committed to banning all diesel and petrol cars by 2040 (Report, 26 July)...

Around two months ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Donald Trump took down climate change information that had been on their website...

New York City, Houston, Miami and San Francisco have all taken steps to mitigate the risks associated with rising sea levels and global temperatures. Are their successes a blueprint for action at the state and local level?

President Donald Trump last week announced America would be exiting the Paris Agreement, but now it looks like his administration might be the only ones to leave...

President Donald Trump said he was elected to represent Pittsburgh, not Paris, as he withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on Thursday. Pittsburgh, however, isn't sticking with him - at least not on climate...

Climate change is raising temperatures, but the impact could be worse in the world's cities. Researchers say the urban heat island effect - or the fact that cities are hotter thanks to human activity - combined with climate...

Theresa May talks big but doesn’t deliver on cleaning up Britain’s polluted citiesTheresa May recognises that air pollution is one of the biggest threats faced by millions of citizens: last November, after a judge ordered...

Cities typically sprawl out over time, but the Chinese government just announced they will be building a whole new city about 62 miles away from Beijing...

This week President Donald Trump signed an executive order undoing climate action regulations like the Clean Power Plan and promoting a misguided - and likely unattainable - goal of making coal great again...

Mexico City, a scant mile and a half above sea level, is sinking. It's a turn of events that shouldn't surprise anyone with a rudimentary grasp of history. Established by the Aztecs in 1325, the city formerly known as Tenochtitlán...

Exclusive: 802 schools, nurseries and colleges are in areas where levels of nitrogen dioxide breach EU legal limits

New low-carbon heating network is first stage of a plan to transform Bristol into a carbon-neutral city by 2050, reports BusinessGreen

Energy inefficient and substandard construction in developing countries locking the world into high greenhouse gas emissions for decades, warns Fatih Birol