In mid-July 2021 western Europe was hit by devastating floods after torrential rains ravaged entire villages. Credit - CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP—Getty Images This is the year it became clear that the world ...

Trump officially pulls US out of landmark Paris climate agreement for second time - The US stands as the only country ever to have withdrawn from the pact. It is alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the ...

Climate organisations will have to grapple with the loss of billions of dollars of US funding — unless other nations or philanthropies step in to fill the void.

The Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday — a landmark deal about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter even faster than ...

Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet ...

Senate Republicans introduced legislation Wednesday meant to prevent the U.S. from rejoining the Paris climate deal under a future Democratic administration. The Obama administration did not submit ...

Fiji pleaded with US President Donald Trump not to abandon the Paris climate deal Wednesday, as the tiny Pacific nation prepares to lead the latest UN talks on reducing global emissions. Climate ...

In the decade since the Paris climate agreement was hammered out, countries have made only halting efforts toward meeting the accord’s goal of limiting global warming. But even that modest progress ...

World leaders from 175 countries signed the historic Paris climate accord Friday, using Earth Day as a backdrop for the ceremonial inking of a long-fought deal that aims to slow the rise of harmful ...

President Donald Trump's decision on whether to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal is coming this Thursday, and White House sources tell NBC News he's leaning toward an exit.