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A year’s worth of rain plunges normally dry Dubai underwater
17 Apr 2024
A year’s worth of rain unleashed immense flash flooding in Dubai Tuesday as roads turned into rivers and rushing water inundated homes and businesses.
Science based targets initiative for carbon offsets and the Bezos Earth Fund
17 Apr 2024
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is supposed to provide standards for corporations to set emission reduction targets that are in line with climate science.
Finding new chemistry to capture double the carbon
17 Apr 2024
Finding ways to capture, store, and use carbon dioxide (CO2) remains an urgent global problem.
Biden awards $830 million to toughen nation’s infrastructure against climate change
16 Apr 2024
The Biden administration on Thursday awarded $830 million in grants to fund 80 projects aimed at toughening the nation’s ageing infrastructure against the harmful impacts of climate change.
EU parliament adopts proposals for power market reform
16 Apr 2024
The European parliament voted for proposals to make electricity prices less dependent on fossil fuel prices, in a bid to boost renewable energy and shield consumers from price spikes.
Food security threatened by extreme flooding, farmers warn
16 Apr 2024
The flooding and extreme weather linked to climate change will undermine UK food production unless farmers get more help, according to the National Farmers Union.
UK Government faces High Court challenge over ‘inadequate’ climate protection plans
16 Apr 2024
The case has been brought by an activist who lost his house to coastal erosion, a disability campaigner and Friends of the Earth.
The best coffee for the planet might not be coffee at all
16 Apr 2024
Climate change is coming for your flat white. Startups are betting that substitutes made out of date seeds and chickpeas are the answer.
Can green hydrogen production help bring oceanic dead zones back to life?
16 Apr 2024
Green hydrogen production makes a lot of extra oxygen. Could we put it to work revitalizing the ocean?
Climate target organisation faces staff revolt over carbon-offsetting plan
15 Apr 2024
Employees at SBTi have called for their CEO to resign over controversial plans which they fear will enable greenwashing.
Russia and Kazakhstan battle record floods as rivers rise further
15 Apr 2024
The city of Orenburg battled rising water levels after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.
America's ageing water infrastructure is getting pounded by climate change – fixing it is also a struggle
15 Apr 2024
Climate change is threatening America’s water infrastructure as intensifying storms deluge communities and droughts dry up freshwater supplies in regions that aren’t prepared.
Don’t forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged
15 Apr 2024
At home on a flood-prone island in northern Bangladesh, Ms Mosammat Shahina and her family take refuge from frequent inundations on a boat, causing upheaval that adds to her domestic workload.
Residents of one of Arizona’s last ecologically intact valleys try to detour the largest renewable energy project in the US
15 Apr 2024
The SunZia transmission line that would carry wind energy from New Mexico to California has sparked one of the most consequential fights over the development for green energy.
Seagrass planted to tackle global warming
15 Apr 2024
Coastal seagrass beds are being revived as part of a global effort to tackle climate change.
Global carbon trading revenues grew to US$74 billion last year - report
12 Apr 2024
Global revenues from the sale of carbon permits in emissions trading systems grew to a record $74 billion last year, as governments increasingly turn to such schemes to help tackle global warming.
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
12 Apr 2024
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem.
UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have two years left ‘to save the world’
12 Apr 2024
Humanity has just two years to make significant changes to reduce heat-trapping emissions and secure the finances for this shift, according to the head of the United Nations climate agency.
The EU’s secret to slashing emissions
12 Apr 2024
Europe proves that putting a price on carbon can dramatically transform fossil fuel–based economies.
Mountains at high risk of losing biodiversity under climate change
12 Apr 2024
Species living in 17 mountains around the world are facing the risk of extinction due to the rapid rate of warming attributed to climate change.
Nigeria’s path to net zero needs to include trees – and fairness
12 Apr 2024
To meet its pledge of net zero by 2060, Nigeria needs to rein in emissions from deforestation and land use, which equal those from the oil and gas sector.
Climate protection is now a human right — and lawsuits will follow
11 Apr 2024
Governments be warned: You must protect your citizens from climate change — it’s their human right.
India’s supreme court expands ‘right to life’ to include protection against climate change
11 Apr 2024
In another landmark climate decision, the Supreme Court of India has ruled that an individual’s “right to life” includes protection against the impacts of climate change.
New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company
11 Apr 2024
The New York attorney general’s lawsuit accusing the world's largest meat company of deceiving customers about being climate-friendly could have far-reaching implications.
Sweden's new steel mill will reduce the country's total emissions by 7%
11 Apr 2024
Swedish steelmaker SSAB, will invest 4.5 billion euros (NZ$8 bln) in building a fossil-free mini-mill, more than previously expected as inflation and higher contingencies added to costs.
Australia commits $45M equitable health funding for Asia-Pacific climate resilience
11 Apr 2024
Australia will contribute $45.5 million to projects designed to improve health systems across the Pacific and Southeast Asia and lift regional resilience in the face of climate change.
New method predicts how climate change will impact food production and financial institutions
11 Apr 2024
Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability.
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
10 Apr 2024
A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.
Don’t forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged
10 Apr 2024
The loss and damage fund’s success hinges on women’s participation and recognising their uneven climate burden, rights groups say.
Climate disasters decimate Mongolian livestock
10 Apr 2024
Millions of livestock have perished as climate change exacerbates impacts of extreme winter weather in Mongolia, crippling nomadic communities that rely on the animals for income and threatening wider economic damage.
China is producing too much stuff and the West is worried
10 Apr 2024
China's economy just can't shake off its COVID gloom, with GDP faltering and an imploded property market.
Hundreds rescued from flooding in Australia's natural disaster
10 Apr 2024
Australian authorities have rescued hundreds of people stranded due to flooding in New South Wales after the region was lashed by nearly a month’s worth of rainfall within 24 hours.
Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases
9 Apr 2024
Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide climbed to unseen levels in 2023, underlining the climate crisis.
How three European human rights cases could shape climate litigation
9 Apr 2024
That is the question the European Court of Human Rights will for the first time seek to answer in Strasbourg, France, as it rules this week on three separate climate cases.
Help us build wind farms to beat Russian bombs, Ukraine tells EU
9 Apr 2024
Ukraine’s largest private energy firm told POLITICO it wants to build a disparate energy network to better survive Russian attacks — but can’t get capital.
Forest carbon accounting lets Guyana remain net zero with oil pumping
9 Apr 2024
Experts said UN rules around forest and oil are open to abuse, so that countries like Guyana can claim net zero without cutting emissions.
GHGs thousands of times more damaging than CO2 are being smuggled into Europe
9 Apr 2024
The impact of hydrofluorocarbons on global warming can be up to thousands of times greater than that of carbon dioxide.
Degrowth: Five things I wish everyone knew
9 Apr 2024
OPINION: As we approach Earth Overshoot Day, climate change is only one of six planetary boundaries we are transgressing.
Africa's carbon sink capacity is shrinking
8 Apr 2024
The population of Africa, the second-largest continent in the world, currently sits at about 1.4 billion, but is set to exceed 2 billion by 2040.
Handful of producers churn out 80% of post-Paris emissions
8 Apr 2024
Just 57 fossil fuel and cement producers are linked to 80% of global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a new report finds.
US carbon emissions reduction rate doubles after passing the Inflation Reduction Act
8 Apr 2024
The rate of carbon emissions cuts has doubled since the passage of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to a new report by Clean Investment Monitor.
Do carbon prizes work?
8 Apr 2024
On Earth Day next year, expert judges will decide who should get the biggest incentive prize in history—$80 million for removing at least 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Big oil is racing to scale up carbon capture but the challenges are immense
8 Apr 2024
A paper mill in a small Mississippi town could help demonstrate whether capturing carbon dioxide emissions and storing it deep underground is a viable path to fight climate change.
Clouds look different these days. It's not suspicious — it's climate change
8 Apr 2024
Have you noticed that clouds are looking a bit different than you remember them when you were younger? Less fluffy and more wispy?
The plastics industry’s carbon footprint has doubled in the past few decades
5 Apr 2024
Plastics production contributes to 4.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewables growth still lags climate targets, think tank says
5 Apr 2024
The world added less than half of the new renewable energy capacity needed to meet its climate goals last year, a leading think tank said.
Scientists warn Australians to prepare for megadroughts lasting more than 20 years
5 Apr 2024
New research shows megadroughts lasting up to 20 years or more have occurred in Australia in the past and could happen again.
Climate NGO claims major shippers profit from EU ETS
5 Apr 2024
Shipping giants make profit from the EU’s carbon market (EU ETS), a new Transport & Environment (T&E) study claims.
Meet the Nigerian women spearheading solar projects
5 Apr 2024
The African country has the lowest access to electricity in the world. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of energy poverty.
A guide to electric car misinformation
5 Apr 2024
The truth is, when it comes to the environment, there really is no such thing as a “good” car.
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.
