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Poor nations ask world's richest to do more on climate
26 Sep 2024
Developing nations on Monday pleaded at the U.N. General Assembly for the world's richest to do more to help them cope with the hardships they face from climate extremes.
'Why are carbon offsets not dead yet?'
26 Sep 2024
Journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot discusses neoliberalism, nature, and negative consequences with the Australia Institute's Climate and Energy program director.
UN adopts pact that aims to save global cooperation
25 Sep 2024
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a "Pact for the Future", which U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement that is a "step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism."
New book exposes just how long, and hard, the fossil fuel industry has worked to advance its interests
25 Sep 2024
As freelance journalist Royce Kurmelovs points out in his new book Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil, most people underestimate just how far in advance the fossil fuel industry plans not only its new projects, but its PR and lobbying efforts, as well.
Ozone layer on track for full recovery, WMO report says
25 Sep 2024
Earth’s ozone layer — damaged in the 1970s and 1980s by ozone-depleting substances — is continuing to recover well, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s newest Ozone and UV Bulletin.
This Japanese region is still recovering from a deadly earthquake. Now record rains have flooded its streets
25 Sep 2024
Record rainfall has brought deadly flooding and landslides to a coastal region of Japan still recovering from a devastating New Year’s Day earthquake.
Why climate change investment pays off
25 Sep 2024
The cost of inaction on climate change far outweighs the cost of proactive investment, says new analysis issued at New York Climate Week.
Farming must pay for its emissions, says EU chief climate scientist
24 Sep 2024
The EU’s chief climate scientist has warned that the bloc will miss its climate targets if it does not force the agricultural sector to pay for its greenhouse gas emissions.
COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate
24 Sep 2024
Governments are being asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of electric grids, among other initiatives.
Trump looms over Climate Week as UN returns
24 Sep 2024
Discussions about the U.S. election are expected to shape the environmental mega-gathering.
‘A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest
24 Sep 2024
Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere.
The path to global carbon pricing
24 Sep 2024
To tackle climate change, the polluter pays principle needs to spread further and wider.
‘We’re changing Earth’s temperature at a rate that exceeds anything we know about’
23 Sep 2024
In a new study looking at Earth’s surface temperature over the past 485 million years, nowhere in that long record have scientists been able to find a time when the rate of warming is as fast as it is right now.
Solar power continues to surge in 2024
23 Sep 2024
Analysis of national monthly data for solar capacity additions shows that the world will - once again - beat forecasts, even though expectations are higher than ever.
Climate change threatens Australian tourism more than is widely believed. Here’s why
23 Sep 2024
Right now, Australia is one of the top five tourist destinations in the world, a distinction the World Economic Forum says it shares with only the United States, France, Spain and Japan.
India’s milk industry struggles as the climate changes
23 Sep 2024
Sudden extreme temperature variations can cause a 10-30 per cent drop in milk production during the first lactation.
Surprise benefit of London's fines for high-polluting cars: More active kids
23 Sep 2024
Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect.
How Italy’s largest fossil fuel company uses ‘green’ bonds as a loophole to keep financing hydrocarbons
23 Sep 2024
Both private and institutional investors have poured billions into Eni’s “green-labelled” bonds, under terms and conditions that enable it to continue to fund carbon-emitting activities.
Norway sees electric cars outnumber petrol models
20 Sep 2024
Norway, one of the world's largest exporters of oil, now has more electric cars on its roads than petrol-driven vehicles.
Cop31 is a chance for Australia to go from climate laggard to global leader
20 Sep 2024
OPINION: Australia’s bid to co-host the UN’s climate conference is not just a diplomatic event; it is a pivotal opportunity to redefine the nation’s role in the global fight against climate change.
How Indian farmers are embracing the power of floods
20 Sep 2024
As climate change causes intense and unpredictable rainfall, farmers are reviving an age-old agricultural method that sees them welcoming, rather than dreading, sudden inundations.
Earth’s greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago shows what happens when El Niño gets out of control
20 Sep 2024
Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, an enormous El Niño weather pattern in the world’s major ocean added to climate chaos and led to extinctions spreading across the globe, wiping out 90% of species.
500 finance institutions call for better govt climate policy ahead of COP29
20 Sep 2024
More than 500 financial institutions, collectively worth more than $29 trillion in assets under management, have written to national governments urging them to update and introduce policies to unlock investment into climate action and nature restoration.
World Bank boosts climate financing by 10 percent
20 Sep 2024
The World Bank announced that it delivered a record $42.6 billion in climate change financing in the last financial year, up 10 percent from a year earlier.
Climate a more fundamental threat than terror: UK foreign secretary
19 Sep 2024
The United Kingdom's foreign secretary has said climate change is a more urgent threat than terrorism or Putin.
Financial instruments will promote carbon credit in India
19 Sep 2024
Carbon credits will play a key role in India's move towards reducing over 8,000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and equivalent (CO2e) by 2030.
Drought is making Sao Paulo’s river emerald green while smoke turns its skies grey
19 Sep 2024
A major river in the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo is suddenly emerald green and clear skies this week turned from blue to grey.
Azerbaijan says 'God-given' oil and gas will help it go green
19 Sep 2024
Flames soar into the air from a sandstone outcrop on a hillside of the Absheron peninsula near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, as it prepares to host the COP29 climate conference.
Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on
19 Sep 2024
An overwhelming majority of survey respondents at a top research university agree that air travel contributes to climate change, but many — especially professors and PhD students — often fly to conferences anyway.
High Court rejects the UK’s first new coal mine in 30 years
18 Sep 2024
A judge on Friday rejected plans for the United Kingdom’s first new coal mine in three decades, delivering a victory for climate groups who challenged the project’s claim it would have zero impact on global emissions.
Is critical minerals strategy a green shift or greenwashing?
18 Sep 2024
Canada has followed the lead of many countries recently by adopting  policies and measures  to promote rapid development of its value chain for domestic critical  minerals  essential in clean energy technology.
Bats and bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?
18 Sep 2024
In disaster-prone Vanuatu, Indigenous ni-Vanuatu people traditionally rely on plants and animal species as indicators that predict extreme weather events and help them prepare.
Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe
18 Sep 2024
Experts say they are unsurprised at the intensity of extreme weather but say the damage wreaked shows how unprepared the world is.
Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says
18 Sep 2024
The Earth Commission says hope lies in sustainable lifestyles, a radical transformation of global politics and fair distribution of resources.
'Catastrophe' as deadly floods hit Central and Eastern Europe
17 Sep 2024
The Austrian province surrounding Vienna has been declared a disaster area, as torrential rain caused by Storm Boris continues to wreak havoc across Central and Eastern Europe.
Von der Leyen moots nature credits market to avert ecosystem collapse
17 Sep 2024
The European Commission is considering a market-based system to encourage farmers and industry to conserve nature and restore lost biodiversity by putting a price on ecosystems.
G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners
17 Sep 2024
Promises to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at COP28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions.
The Hague to ban fossil fuel ads from January
17 Sep 2024
Other cities have moved against fossil fuel advertising, but The Hague is the first to enact binding legislation, as a number of jurisdictions worldwide crack down on publicity for fossil fuels and high-emissions sectors.
Nearly 40% of Amazon rainforest most vital to climate left unprotected, data shows
17 Sep 2024
Scientists agree that preserving the Amazon rainforest is vital to combating global warming, but new data indicates huge swathes of the jungle that are most vital to the world's climate remain unprotected.
Slow progress in Baku risks derailing talks on new climate finance goal at COP29
17 Sep 2024
Azerbaijan’s COP29 president calls for determination and leadership from all countries to bridge the gaps on finance.
Climate change triggered a mega-tsunami that caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days
16 Sep 2024
Scientists were baffled by seismic signals which were recorded from the Arctic to Antarctica for more than a week last September.
Democrats seek to tax fossil fuel companies over climate change
16 Sep 2024
A large group of Democrats is looking to force the fossil fuel industry to pay for climate change.
How farms are using 'magic dust' to capture carbon
16 Sep 2024
Scottish farmers are using crushed basalt to both capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to help crops grow.
South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?
16 Sep 2024
Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile.
Methane emissions are rising faster than ever
16 Sep 2024
Methane concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere increased at record speed over the past five years.
Proposals to build California’s first carbon storage facilities face a key test
16 Sep 2024
Proposals to build California’s first carbon storage facilities are facing key tests in the coming weeks, beginning with a vote by the Kern County Planning Commission Thursday night.
Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says
13 Sep 2024
Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi beach among locations that could be impacted if planet hits even 2C of warming by 2050.
The case for adding iron to the ocean for carbon dioxide removal
13 Sep 2024
While the urgent reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is needed as the primary activity to curb climate change, there is broad agreement for the need to remove CO2 already in the atmosphere.
The presidential debate proved that climate change is not at centre of 2024 election
13 Sep 2024
Climate change remains on the backburner of the US 2024 election following little mention of environmental policy during the first debate between the two presidential candidates.
Floods decimate Nigerian zoo, wash crocodiles into community
13 Sep 2024
Floods in north Nigeria have killed more than 80% of animals in a large zoo with an array of wildlife from lions and crocodiles to buffaloes and ostriches.
Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree – except Queensland
Wed 13 May 2026
Power hungry datacentres that are growing to meet the demands of artificial intelligence could be forced to invest in enough new solar and wind generation to completely cover their electricity needs.
US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry
Wed 13 May 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air permits, the latest move by the Trump administration to ease regulatory burdens on American power plants and industry.
China’s leadership calls for ‘strict control’ of fossil fuels
28 Apr 2026
Chinese government leaders published a policy document on 22 April – Earth Day – calling for stricter controls on fossil-fuel consumption and greater oversight of heavy emitters.
Inequality causing 100,000 extra deaths a year from heat and cold in Europe
Tue 12 May 2026
Economic inequality adds more than 100,000 deaths to the vast toll from heat and cold in Europe each year, research has found.
Nature recovery zones inspired by Attenborough
Tue 12 May 2026
A wildlife trust has been inspired by Sir David Attenborough's climate change mantra to designate 11 nature recovery zones in honour of the broadcaster's 100th birthday.
Carbon capture ‘doesn’t work’: Former British Columbia premier
Fri 8 May 2026
Former British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell warned the costly, troubled technology has failed to deliver, undercutting a central justification for billions in public subsidies and new oil infrastructure.
Climate change, socioeconomic shifts threaten Nepal’s yak herding traditions
7 May 2026
According to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), warming temperatures are fundamentally altering Himalayan high-altitude ecosystems.
How climate change threatens the economic backbone of the Pacific
4 May 2026
The vast Pacific Ocean and the islands dotted within it produce more than half of the world's tuna.
‘Triple whammy of climate chaos’: Why Antarctica's sea ice collapse is no longer a mystery
Mon 11 May 2026
Scientists have finally identified the ‘triple whammy’ behind Antarctica’s dramatic collapse, shedding new light on the chain reaction that has pushed its sea ice to record lows.
With its first marine reserve, Ghana protects its ocean to secure its future
5 May 2026
Comment: Last month, Ghana made news when it declared its first marine reserve and sited it in one of the nation’s most ecologically and biologically significant marine environments.
The country where lethal hantavirus cases are on the rise. Experts blame climate change
Wed 13 May 2026
Experts believe environmental degradation caused by climate change and human activity is contributing to its spread by allowing the rodents that transmit the virus to thrive in new areas.
UN methane alert system expanded to coal and waste sectors after Indian landfill named among world’s top emitters
6 May 2026
The United Nations is expanding its methane monitoring system to cover coal mines and waste facilities, after satellite analysis identified a landfill in India among the world’s three largest methane-emitting sites.
