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Plastic pollution will more than double by 2040 unless the world cuts its reliance on plastics like packaging and textiles, according to by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Over the next 15 years, the world will fill the equivalent of about a garbage truck a second with waste plastics, spewing out pollution and creating 280 million metric tonnes of new rubbish each year by 2040, said Pew, an international NGO.

Since becoming leader of Britain's Green Party in September, Zack Polanski has gone viral on social media, propelled his party higher in opinion polls and been compared to New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Despite leading a party with the environment in its name, Polanski's leadership has focused most closely on another issue: economic inequality.

From the production of goods to the ways people work and communicate through tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence is driving a digital revolution - but also a very physical one.

The electricity demand of data centres is projected to by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), bringing into question how quickly countries can transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.

Are you up to speed for the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil? World leaders are meeting in the Amazonian city of Belem to tackle some of the planet's biggest problems.

Here's a quiz to test your climate and nature knowledge, and hopefully learn a bit more about the environment in the process.

World leaders will soon gather in Belem, Brazil, for the U.N. COP30 climate summit, ready to negotiate everything from the future of tropical forests to the global energy transition.

While Donald Trump's return to the presidency has seen the United States withdraw from international climate commitments, countries are under pressure to ramp up action as the World Meteorological Organization warns of .

A gallery on the south side of New York's Central Park is thousands of miles from where Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier made their names as two of the world's most famous wildlife photographers.

From polar bears to African elephants, the pair have brought images from some of the world's most remote places to millions of people, with more than 11 million followers on Instagram combined, including yours truly.

Guyana, a country of just 800,000 people, would not expect to hit the headlines during New York's annual U.N. General Assembly and parallel events of the city's climate week.

But Guyana's new-found oil wealth has pushed the small South American country into the spotlight.

Heatwaves have broken records around the world this year, with warnings issued across the United States and temperatures endangering lives across southern Europe.

In June, millions of Americans sweltered as temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). In early July, Europe was gripped by a heatwave that meteorologists said was "" because it struck so early in the year.

The United States has with Ukraine for preferential access to its critical minerals, with Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskiy mending relations after months of tense negotiations.

With Trump working to in Russia's three-year war in Ukraine, the United States will also fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction while providing no debt obligations under the agreement.

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump declared a "national energy emergency" with a plan to boost oil and gas production and withdrawing the United States from a global pact to fight global warming.

With an inauguration speech and series of executive orders signalling a dramatic departure from his predecessor, President Joe Biden, Trump in his second term as U.S. president is expected to have a major impact on climate action at home and abroad.