Glaciers around the world are melting due to climate change. In response, the United Nations has declared 2025 the year of glacier preservation. In the Canadian Rockies, glaciers power a uniquely stunning ecosystem, but the changes to the ice are concerni...

Scientists say they've found found a new way to turn trash into a valuable commodity. CBS News' Leah Mishkin has the story about tons of banana stems being used to power up homes, and maybe even to create fashion.

There's no end to the uses for cork, a spongy material that can be used for everything from sealing wine bottles to replacing plastics and building materials. The world's main cork forests ring the Mediterranean, with Portugal home to the most cork trees...

There is an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics.

To help narrow the substantial gap between what's needed and what governments can provide, there’s an increasing push to use something called blended finance to raise public funds.

The COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan ran into overtime as negotiators from nearly 200 countries struggled to reach consensus on the climate funding plan for the next decade.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders that the world was in the 'final countdown' to limit the rise in temperatures to 1.5 C.

As early voting opens in Detroit, Harris, Trump campaign in the battleground state of Michigan; How chef Andrew Black is building a food empire.

People across Florida were given notice Sunday that Milton, for now just a tropical storm off the coast of Mexico, could intensify rapidly into a major hurricane.

The babies, born Aug. 20, are the youngest known victims of a storm that had claimed at least 225 lives across Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas.

A storm system brewing in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach tropical storm status later Saturday, with forecasters warning it could intensify into a hurricane.

Fracking has become a big talking point in the presidential election. But while it has helped boost U.S. energy production, studies have shown it's also linked to a number of environmental and human health issues, including childhood leukemia. Here's what...

The northern meteorological summer — June, July and August — averaged 16.8 degrees Celsius (62.24 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus.

The World Meteorological Organization said many African nations are spending up to nine per cent of their budgets for climate adaptation policies.

A deadly ice cave collapse in Iceland has raised safety concerns and prompted calls for stricter rules for tourist expeditions that can be especially dangerous in the summer.