The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The ...

The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments ...

One of the world’s most vulnerable countries to the fallout from climate change has won a landmark legal battle, giving ...

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

The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states have a legal obligation to tackle climate change and that failing to ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine ...

According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas ...

What the Inter-American Court’s recent advisory opinion tells us about the past, present, and future of climate change policy ...

The opinion by the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, was immediately welcomed by environmental groups.

The paramount chief of a volcanic island in Vanuatu said Thursday he was "very impressed" by a global court's declaration ...