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Conservation efforts are succeeding overall at slowing biodiversity loss, global study confirms
2 May 2024
A first-of-its-kind study that analysed hundreds of conservation actions around the world has confirmed that efforts toward preserving wildlife are resulting in measurable achievements.
Why BYD's EV exports sell for twice the China price
1 May 2024
US and European politicians have raised alarms that their domestic auto industries could be destroyed by a wave of cheap Chinese electric vehicles.
G7 agrees to end coal-fired power plants by 2035
1 May 2024
The group of seven of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to put an end date on coal-fired power plants in a “historic” agreement.
Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years
1 May 2024
Global leaders will gather in Canada's capital this week to discuss progress in drafting a first-ever global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution by the end of the year.
Torres Strait Islanders in landmark Australian federal court case
1 May 2024
Uncle Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai are suing the Australian government for "failing its duty of care" to protect their ancestral lands from the impacts of climate change.
Fifty killed in Kenya floods
1 May 2024
About 50 people have died in Kenya in a deluge following heavy rains and flooding, a Red Cross official has said.
They turned cattle ranches into tropical forest — then climate change hit
1 May 2024
They brought forests back to life in Costa Rica. Their next challenge? Restoring ecosystems in a warming world.
US Federal Emergency Management Agency cracks down on flood insurance
30 Apr 2024
The housing bubble in climate-threatened areas is primed to burst in the United States as the federal agency responsible for emergency response finally cracks down on flood insurance.
In the rush to decarbonise, the shipping industry is exploring alternative fuels
30 Apr 2024
The shipping industry is finally embracing greener fuels, but which one, or ones, will they land on?
Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century
30 Apr 2024
Global biodiversity has declined between 2% and 11% during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study published in Science.
Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand
30 Apr 2024
Extreme weather events displace tens of millions of people every year, while multi-year droughts and rising sea levels are making many densely populated regions increasingly hostile to human habitation.
World Bank advises South Africa on climate insurance, contingency fund options
30 Apr 2024
The World Bank is advising South Africa’s National Treasury on a climate risk strategy after floods in recent years caused billions of dollars of damage.
Is Russia ready for climate change? Mass floods expose lack of adaptation, campaigners say
30 Apr 2024
Mass floods in Russia have thrown a spotlight on the country’s approach to managing the increasing risks it faces from climate change.
UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples calls for moratorium on carbon markets
29 Apr 2024
Francisco Calí Tzay was speaking at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York.
56 companies responsible for half of global plastic pollution that researchers could trace
29 Apr 2024
A new study on 84 countries has linked 24% of plastic waste to just five companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone and Altria.
EU votes to leave energy treaty as green rules pushed through
29 Apr 2024
EU lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for the bloc to exit a controversial international treaty that is seen by campaigners as protecting fossil fuel investments, in a series of positive votes on green legislation.
Extreme heat, heavy rain kill hundreds across Thailand, East Africa
29 Apr 2024
Extreme heat in Thailand has killed 30 people so far this year, meanwhile, East Africa has been battling torrential rain over the past month.
South Korean court hears children's climate change case against government
29 Apr 2024
South Korea's Constitutional Court is hearing a case that accuses the government of having failed to protect 200 people by not tackling climate change, in Asia's first climate-related litigation.
Mosquito-borne diseases spreading due to climate crisis
29 Apr 2024
Illnesses such as dengue and malaria to reach unaffected parts of northern Europe, America, Asia and Australia, conference to hear.
EU Policy: Rapid militarisation jeopardising climate, claim NGOs
26 Apr 2024
Impact of conflict-related carbon emissions should be accounted for and more data from military operations is needed, according to NGOs and lawmakers.
Tensions rise over who will contribute to new climate finance goal
26 Apr 2024
Germany wants all high-emitters, especially among G20 countries, to pitch in. But China and Saudi Arabia say it is only the responsibility of developed nations.
We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realised
26 Apr 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.
Scientists say Oman, UAE deluge ‘most likely’ linked to climate change
26 Apr 2024
A new study has found climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions is the likely reason for the extreme weather events.
Asia is officially the most ‘disaster-prone’ region in the world
26 Apr 2024
Asia has to cope with more disasters than any other part of the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture
26 Apr 2024
Some 100 volunteers gathered on a popular beach in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, wading in the shallows to plant strands of light-green eelgrass on the seabed.
Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible
24 Apr 2024
The Conversation: Amin Nasser, chief executive of the world’s largest oil company Saudi Aramco, recently called on nations to “abandon the fantasy” to phase out fossil fuels, adding that the transition to renewable energy sources is “visibly failing”. However, the latest science on climate change is unequivocal: the world must eliminate fossil fuel-based energy systems – and fast.
‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims
24 Apr 2024
Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change.
Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
24 Apr 2024
As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.
How can India hold elections when it’s too hot to vote?
24 Apr 2024
Sweltering heat is keeping some voters away. Changing the system is a risk worth taking.
UN labour agency report warns of rising threat of excess heat, climate change on world’s workers
24 Apr 2024
The UN labor organisation warned Monday that over 70% of the world’s workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight.
Floods swamp southern China sparking extreme weather fears
24 Apr 2024
Floods swamped cities in southern China's densely populated Pearl River Delta following record-breaking rains, sparking worries about the region's defences against bigger deluges induced by extreme weather events.
Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move
23 Apr 2024
We all know about the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, and probably about the carbon contained in plants and the bodies of animals.
US must choose between cheap EVs or an American industrial renaissance
23 Apr 2024
Chinese electric vehicles—should be a godsend to the Biden administration, whose two biggest priorities are reducing carbon emissions quickly enough to avert a climate catastrophe and reducing consumer prices quickly enough to avert an electoral catastrophe.
Dubai floods expose weaknesses to a rapidly changing climate
23 Apr 2024
The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms.
European carbon trading catching less than quarter of airline emissions, data finds
23 Apr 2024
Less than a quarter of airline emissions were caught by Europe’s carbon trading schemes last year, according to new data that illustrates the limitations of one of the key tools to fight pollution from aviation.
'Unprecedented': Changes in Antarctica's sea ice could have dramatic impacts
23 Apr 2024
In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent.
Liz Truss book calls for climate laws to be abolished and boasts of effort to cancel UK COP summit
23 Apr 2024
The former UK prime minister attacks flagship climate deals and makes false claims about electric vehicles, Russia’s influence on energy policies, and net zero.
Finnish startup making food ‘from air and solar power’
22 Apr 2024
The company's founders hope solein, a protein grown with CO2 and electricity, will cut the environmental impacts of farming.
Biden administration moves to make conservation an equal to industry on US lands
22 Apr 2024
The Biden administration finalised a new rule for public land management to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
If ten straight months of record-breaking heat isn’t a climate emergency, what is?
22 Apr 2024
The planet is experiencing a horrifying streak of record-breaking heat, with March marking the tenth month in a row that the average global temperature has been the highest ever recorded.
Xi thinks China can slow climate change. What if he’s right?
22 Apr 2024
OPINION: At first glance, Xi Jinping seems to have lost the plot. China’s president appears to be smothering the entrepreneurial dynamism that allowed his country to crawl out of poverty and become the factory of the world.
Scottish government scraps climate change targets
22 Apr 2024
The Scottish government has confirmed it will scrap its annual and interim targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change is political and we must treat it that way
22 Apr 2024
OPINION: Global warming is still far from being an election issue — and therein lies the problem.
Is $38 trillion a lot?
19 Apr 2024
A new study using data from 1,600 regions over the last forty years has found that by 2050 climate change will be causing economic damage worth $38 trillion every single year.
Billions more in overseas aid needed to avert climate disaster, say economists
19 Apr 2024
Pressure piles on the World Bank and IMF to steer countries to low-carbon transition at spring summit.
EU considers bringing emissions removal credits into carbon market
19 Apr 2024
The European Union is looking into whether to bring emissions removal credits into its carbon market, a move that could reopen the market to carbon credits in future years.
Deadly African heatwave 'impossible' without warming
19 Apr 2024
A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say.
Death toll from four days of rains rises to 63 in Pakistan with more rain on the forecast
19 Apr 2024
The heaviest downpour in decades flooded villages on Pakistan’s southwestern coast. Flash floods have also killed dozens of people in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Global warming is coming for your shopping cart
19 Apr 2024
Climate change is already increasing food prices and overall inflation, and these effects are likely to accelerate in the future, according to a new study.
New wind installations hit a record last year, report says
18 Apr 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity last year but needs to add triple this amount annually by the end of the decade to meet climate targets, according to an industry report.
Security group warns Australia’s democracy is being threatened by ‘anti-climate-action propaganda’
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Australia’s democracy and sovereignty is being threatened by a propaganda machine aiding climate change deniers, a security group has warned.
California sues Trump energy department over revival of controversial oil pipeline
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California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, said he has sued the US energy department to stop it from using a cold-war-era law to restart the long-disputed Sable Offshore pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries.
China tells oil refiners to suspend exports
Fri 20 Mar 2026
China has told its largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing unidentified sources, as the war in the Middle East risks an energy supply crunch.
Spain’s Sánchez attacks other EU leaders for exploiting energy prices to gut climate policies
Mon 23 Mar 2026
Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez said his country was on “the right side of history” when it comes to how it has handled the economic and social costs of previous energy crises.
Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in England green tech drive
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Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government.
Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change
17 Feb 2026
COMMENT: Mark Carney's time as prime minister has been defined in part by his decision to roll back Trudeau-era climate policies.
Philippines declares national emergency over high fuel prices
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines declared a national energy emergency on Tuesday, saying that high oil prices caused by the war in the Middle East were threatening the country’s energy security.
Pacific Nations fear fuel shortages as Middle East war sends oil prices soaring
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Leaders of Samoa and Tonga appealed for help this week as the import-reliant Pacific nations raised fears over possible fuel shortages and escalating costs caused by war in the Middle East.
Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula
24 Feb 2026
Keeping global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial temperatures is “crucial” for limiting damage to the Antarctic Peninsula’s unique ecosystems, according to a new study.
'Blackwater' lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are now emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere
16 Mar 2026
Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin's peatlands for millennia is seeping into lakes and rivers. Why this is happening remains unclear, but researchers warn that tropical peatlands could be nearing a tipping point.
Surfing’s big break: how climate crisis insurance may save El Salvador’s waves
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Fearing that extreme weather threatened its epic breaks, Oriente Salvaje is piloting the first surf insurance policy to protect livelihoods and ecosystems.
Iran war should trigger faster exit from fossil fuel dependence, UN climate chief says
18 Mar 2026
The disruption to energy markets caused by the Iran war is a lesson on the risks of relying on fossil fuels which should drive governments to wean their economies off oil and gas faster, the U.N. climate secretary told Reuters on Monday.
