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International: All stories

Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public

Fri 11 Jul 2025

The climate crisis is more urgent than ever, so why is there a disconnect between stated policies and actual practices?

How Mamdani connects climate policy to his affordability agenda as he runs for New York mayor

Fri 11 Jul 2025

Many of the democratic socialist’s policies aim to slash carbon emissions and boost environmental justice.

UN Human Rights Council fails to call out fossil fuels after decision cuts mention

Fri 11 Jul 2025

A proposal by the Marshall Islands and Colombia calling for a transition away from fossil fuels at the UN Human Rights Council failed to make it into the council’s declaration on climate change and human rights issued on Tuesday.

Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’

Fri 11 Jul 2025

In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently played host to the second international conference on “tipping points”.

The struggle for control of the Arctic is accelerating - and it's riskier than ever

Fri 11 Jul 2025

As the battle for one of the world’s coldest places heats up, an increasingly fragile security balance may be breaking down, leading to an escalating arms race.

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Urbanization is intensifying India’s summer heat and rain

Fri 11 Jul 2025

When 28-year-old Sonelal Prasad left home on the morning of June 16 for his job at a construction site in Mumbai—the financial capital of India—he didn’t know he’d be digging his own grave.

OPEC+ to boost oil production

Thu 10 Jul 2025

Eight members of the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries say they will boost production by 548,000 barrels per day in August in a move that could further reduce gas prices this year.

Regions in China take steps to ensure power supply amid heatwave-driven record demand

Thu 10 Jul 2025

China is battling intense heatwaves across multiple regions in recent days, with temperatures surpassing 40C in some areas, triggering yellow heat warnings and high-temperature health risk warnings.

Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why

Thu 10 Jul 2025

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and rapid warming of Earth. But what has remained a mystery is why these extremely hot conditions persisted for millions of years.

Clean energy's political test looms now that Trump bill is law

Thu 10 Jul 2025

The US 2026 midterms will test clean energy's uncertain political salience as advocates attempt to tether it to economic matters that voters prioritise.

UK: Thousands lobby MPs to demand climate action

Thu 10 Jul 2025

More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster on Wednesday to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities.

The ‘green’ corporations funding anti-climate groups

Thu 10 Jul 2025

Organised business groups aligned with the fossil fuel industry collectively spend hundreds of millions each year to stymie climate and environmental policy.

Net-zero much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of unmitigated climate change far more severe.

Melting glaciers and ice caps could unleash wave of volcanic eruptions, study says

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Research in Chile suggests the climate crisis makes eruptions more likely and explosive, and warns of Antarctica risk.

EU countries seek more cuts to deforestation rules

Wed 9 Jul 2025

From December, the world-first deforestation law will require operators placing goods including soy, beef and palm oil, onto the EU market to provide proof their products did not cause deforestation.

Türkiye's Parliament adopts first-ever climate law

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Promising a wide range of provisions and increased vigilance against climate change, the new law is to provide action plans on a national and local scale, while bolstering Türkiye’s 2053 climate goals and protecting the country from environmental disasters.

Experts question business case for nature credits as European Union publishes plan

Wed 9 Jul 2025

To protect and restore nature, the world needs to spend $700bn a year, says the Global Biodiversity Framework. The European Commission on Monday published a plan for how nature credits can play their role in boosting biodiversity funds.

Water contaminant levels can remain high for eight years after a wildfire, study finds

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Scientists are warning that wildfire pollutants can continue to contaminate local waterways for up to eight years after a wildfire event.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes

Tue 8 Jul 2025

President Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

'Exactly what we would expect': climate scientists weigh in on deadly Texas flooding

Tue 8 Jul 2025

As the death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas continued to rise, climate scientists this weekend underscored the link between more frequent and severe extreme weather events and the worsening climate emergency caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels.

Extreme heatwaves may cause global decline in dairy production, scientists warn

Tue 8 Jul 2025

Israel-based study finds that by 2050 average daily milk production could be reduced by 4% as a result of worsening heat stress.

Asia warming at twice the global average: WMO Report

Tue 8 Jul 2025

The State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report shows the continent is heating up at twice the global average rate, leading to devastating impacts for ecosystems, societies and economies across the region.

In Latin America, the energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Tue 8 Jul 2025

A new report shows that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Africa is not a solar geoengineering test site

Tue 8 Jul 2025

This potentially dangerous course of action would divert financing and support from real solutions, while putting the continent’s ecosystems and communities at risk.

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules

Mon 7 Jul 2025

Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change.

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ set to slash through US climate and justice drive

Mon 7 Jul 2025

Trump’s legislation will hurt clean energy, boost fossil fuels and end investment in environmental justice. Climate advocates vow to continue the fight.

UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance

Mon 7 Jul 2025

Leaders push for better financial systems at the Financing for Development summit to help poor nations cope with climate and economic shocks.

China solar and wind installations break more world records

Mon 7 Jul 2025

China is leading the world in new solar and wind installations and doing so at a record-shattering pace.

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report

Mon 7 Jul 2025

From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change.

Climate target deal in time for COP30 will be ‘difficult’, Denmark warns

Mon 7 Jul 2025

Denmark warns EU climate deal for COP30 risks slipping amid tight deadline and deep divisions.

European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra

EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal

4 Jul 2025

Campaigners accuse the European Commission of adding “loopholes” and “distractions” to the 90% emissions reduction target.

An Israeli startup says its new technology will save the planet. Scientists have doubts

4 Jul 2025

The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to fund what it describes as a groundbreaking technology in the fight against climate change.

UN expert urges criminalising fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

4 Jul 2025

Rapporteur calls for defossilisation of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms.

Central Chinese cities fight floods unleashed by record rain

4 Jul 2025

A record summer downpour in China's central province of Hubei dumped more than a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours on the city of Xianfeng, prompting authorities to move 18,000 people to safety, shut schools, and suspend bus services.

Record-breaking sea temperatures in the Mediterranean spark fresh warnings from scientists

4 Jul 2025

Intense marine heat can have devastating consequences for ecosystems with its ripple effects also extending onto land.

What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in fragile northern Alaska

4 Jul 2025

The area is vital for the health of the planet. However, its future is at risk.

Global climate science body roiled by controversies stoked by Saudis, US

3 Jul 2025

The proposed selection of a Saudi Aramco oil company staffer as one of the authors of a key science report has been denounced as “political capture.”

Warmer seas fuel dangerous ‘weather bomb’ in New South Wales

3 Jul 2025

If the storm shapes up as predicted, we can expect to see damage to houses and trees as well as significant beach erosion – especially in heavily populated areas exposed to the storm’s southern flank.

Clean energy stocks jump after tax on solar and wind projects is removed from Trump’s big bill

3 Jul 2025

Shares of renewable energy companies are rising after a tax on solar and wind was removed from the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Activists at the June protest unfurled a 15-metre-long in front of the headquarters of WPP, reading "WPP are climate criminals, ban fossil fuel advertising".

Activists protest at London headquarters of global ad giant promoting fossil fuels

3 Jul 2025

The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

Why climate action is unstoppable — and 'climate realism' is a myth

3 Jul 2025

According to Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasts with their misleading claims and remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

‘A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis

3 Jul 2025

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton.

Brussels to stand its ground on 90% emissions cut by 2040

2 Jul 2025

The European Commission is set to propose a target to slash greenhouse gas emissions to a mere tenth of the levels seen back in 1990 – but a leaked summary confirms it will offer significant leeway as a sweetener for reluctant EU members.

Australia's red meat industry drops 2030 carbon neutral goal

2 Jul 2025

An Australian livestock industry body said on Tuesday it had abandoned its goal to make the sector, a significant emitter of planet-warming methane, carbon neutral by 2030 but that reducing emissions would remain a priority.

Nations agree to tax premium flyers, private jets

2 Jul 2025

A group of countries, including France, Kenya, Spain and Barbados, pledged on June 30 to tax premium-class flying and private jets in a bid to raise funds for climate action and sustainable development.

Scientists are just beginning to understand how life makes clouds, and their discoveries may drastically improve climate science

2 Jul 2025

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form.

Bonn bulletin: Just transition talks find firmer footing

2 Jul 2025

After stalling at COP29, governments agree on how to frame a just transition that is fair to workers, protects nature and promotes clean energy access.

Is climate change really accelerating?

2 Jul 2025

COMMENT: An article titled “The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster” by the New York Times has kicked off a heated debate among climate scientists over the evidence that climate change is accelerating.

Next EU climate target to allow carbon offsets from 2036, draft shows

1 Jul 2025

The European Commission will permit countries to outsource a portion of their climate efforts to poorer countries from 2036, according to a draft proposal.

Pakistan slams climate ‘injustice’ as deadly floods hit country again

1 Jul 2025

Pakistan’s climate minister says country facing ‘crisis of injustice’ as more deadly flooding and extreme weather events hit the country.

Australia
More Australia >

Warmer seas fuel dangerous ‘weather bomb’ in New South Wales

3 Jul 2025

If the storm shapes up as predicted, we can expect to see damage to houses and trees as well as significant beach erosion – especially in heavily populated areas exposed to the storm’s southern flank.

United States
More United States >

How Mamdani connects climate policy to his affordability agenda as he runs for New York mayor

Fri 11 Jul 2025

Many of the democratic socialist’s policies aim to slash carbon emissions and boost environmental justice.

China
More China >

Regions in China take steps to ensure power supply amid heatwave-driven record demand

Thu 10 Jul 2025

China is battling intense heatwaves across multiple regions in recent days, with temperatures surpassing 40C in some areas, triggering yellow heat warnings and high-temperature health risk warnings.

Europe
More Europe >

EU countries seek more cuts to deforestation rules

Wed 9 Jul 2025

From December, the world-first deforestation law will require operators placing goods including soy, beef and palm oil, onto the EU market to provide proof their products did not cause deforestation.

United Kingdom
More United Kingdom >

UK: Thousands lobby MPs to demand climate action

Thu 10 Jul 2025

More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster on Wednesday to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities.

Canada
More Canada >

Is Mark Carney turning his back on climate action?

23 Jun 2025

The G7 summit in Alberta, hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney, has ended with only passing mention of fighting climate change, including a statement on wildfires that is silent on the pressing need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Asia
More Asia >

Urbanization is intensifying India’s summer heat and rain

Fri 11 Jul 2025

When 28-year-old Sonelal Prasad left home on the morning of June 16 for his job at a construction site in Mumbai—the financial capital of India—he didn’t know he’d be digging his own grave.

Pacific
More Pacific >

Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa

27 Jun 2025

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home.

Antarctic/Arctic
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The struggle for control of the Arctic is accelerating - and it's riskier than ever

Fri 11 Jul 2025

As the battle for one of the world’s coldest places heats up, an increasingly fragile security balance may be breaking down, leading to an escalating arms race.

Africa
More Africa >

Africa is not a solar geoengineering test site

Tue 8 Jul 2025

This potentially dangerous course of action would divert financing and support from real solutions, while putting the continent’s ecosystems and communities at risk.

South America
More South America >

In Latin America, the energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Tue 8 Jul 2025

A new report shows that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

United Nations
More United Nations >

UN Human Rights Council fails to call out fossil fuels after decision cuts mention

Fri 11 Jul 2025

A proposal by the Marshall Islands and Colombia calling for a transition away from fossil fuels at the UN Human Rights Council failed to make it into the council’s declaration on climate change and human rights issued on Tuesday.

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