United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been using science to warn about evermore dangerous climate change in increasingly urgent tones. Now he's enlisting something seemingly more ...

Pacific island nation Vanuatu has triggered a landmark court ruling that has set out the big polluters' responsibilities when it comes to climate change.

ICJ advisory opinions are not binding but carry considerable moral and legal weight, and Wednesday's decision was seen as the most consequential in a recent string of landmark climate rulings.

The top court of the United Nations on Wednesday declared that countries have an obligation to combat climate change — and that a failure to do so could constitute a violation of international ...

The United Nations' top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change ...

EPA poised to ignore landmark finding that will limit its battle against climate change - A 2009 scientific finding established that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to human health ...

Judges at the International Court of Justice in the Hague say failing to protect the planet from climate change may breach ...

Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns may be lengthening fungal allergy season, which starts 3 weeks earlier than it did two decades ago.

International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system ...

The opinion of the International Court of Justice is seen by some as a turning point in international climate law, with ...

Activists demonstrate outside The Peace Palace, housing the International Court of Justice, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in The ...

The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.