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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.
Japan considers 66% emissions cuts by 2035 in new energy plan, report says
18 Apr 2024
Japan will consider slashing emissions by 66 per cent by fiscal year 2035, from 2013 levels, as the nation kicks off a review of its energy mix strategy.
Nature is vital to our success in fighting climate change and its real-world impacts
18 Apr 2024
OPINION: To unlock nature’s climate potential, we need investments to go to impactful nature-based climate solutions to conserve, restore or improve the management of natural and working ecosystems for their climate benefits.
Fossil fuel debts are illegitimate and must be cancelled
18 Apr 2024
OPINION: The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF are a chance to transform outstanding debts for fossil fuel projects into grants for renewable energy systems.
A tidal wetland restoration of epic proportions
18 Apr 2024
Salt ponds form a vast mosaic spanning thousands of acres in California’s South Bay. But a 50-year transformation is underway.
US meat lobby celebrates ‘positive outcome’ of COP28
18 Apr 2024
Industry leaders praise un food and climate plan as “music to our ears”.
The widest-ever global coral crisis will hit within weeks, scientists say
17 Apr 2024
Rising sea temperatures around the planet have caused a bleaching event that is expected to be the most extensive on record.
Australia could reach an ‘ambitious’ emissions cut of up to 75% by 2035, advisers tell Labor
17 Apr 2024
Climate Change Authority says goal could be achievable if more action is taken by governments, business, investors and households.
Europe stands firm against US-driven ESG backlash
17 Apr 2024
Steady investor demand in Europe for environmental and socially responsible investments and wide-ranging regulation are helping Europe's finance industry withstand political pressures that have pushed some US peers to backtrack on their green agendas.
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.
Some inconvenient truths in bringing climate science to the judiciary
Today 11:45am
OPINION: Climate science had been knocking on the courthouse doors for quite some time when the Supreme Court of the United States finally invited it into the realm of legal action in 2007.
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.
Risk of drought in UK grows after unusually dry start to spring
Today 11:45am
The risk of drought is rising after an unusually dry start to spring has pushed river flow, groundwater and reservoir stores below normal levels across much of the country, especially in central and southern England.
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.
While the world hesitates, India must continue leading on climate
Today 11:45am
India’s updated climate targets must translate into systems that secure growth, resilience, and autonomy.
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.
