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Drought leaves millions in Uruguay without tap water fit for drinking
18 Jul 2023
After years of underinvestment, reservoir has had to be topped up from estuary, raising health concerns.
‘Things don’t always change in a nice, gradual way’
17 Jul 2023
Climate change feels more real now than ever and it’s getting hard to keep track of all the overlapping climate disasters.
US refuses climate reparations for developing nations
17 Jul 2023
The US says it will not "under any circumstances" pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters.
‘Giant Methane Factories’: hydropower has long been touted as clean energy. But is it?
17 Jul 2023
Decades of research suggests that hydropower has a far greater climate impact than once thought.
Efforts to insure the world against climate change are falling flat
17 Jul 2023
Vulnerable nations worry about pricey premiums, ineffective schemes and rich countries’ motivations.
The war on climate activism is reaching dangerous new heights
17 Jul 2023
Governments around the world are increasingly deploying the language and methods of counterterrorism to repress climate movements.
Australia's kelp forests an underwater 'Amazon' could help climate change
17 Jul 2023
To most people, the word "forest" would conjure images of vast tree communities, like the towering karri forests of WA's South West.
Govts strike deal on Green Climate Fund strategy
13 Jul 2023
Developed countries pushed for more focus on private money while developing governments wanted more public money from rich nations.
Oceans are turning greener due to climate change
13 Jul 2023
More than half of the world’s oceans have become greener in the past 20 years, probably because of global warming.
US heat wave expands, more than 108 million people under alerts
13 Jul 2023
An expanding, intensifying heat wave prompted the US National Weather Service to issue heat alerts for more than 108 million people, with no letup in sight for some areas.
Market for clean energy minerals surges to $320 billion: International Energy Agency
13 Jul 2023
The market remains vulnerable to volatile prices, supply chain snarls and geopolitical tensions despite soaring demand.
Carbon tax on luxury items is fairer and more effective to cut emissions
13 Jul 2023
A study published in the academic journal One Earth has found that taxing luxury items would be more effective in reducing carbon output than current schemes.
China power plants beef up production amid surging electricity demand
13 Jul 2023
Power plants have ramped up efforts to secure electricity supply, including increasing output at coal-fired power plants, in response to the surging demand due to a prolonged heat wave.
Global temperature rises in steps – here’s why we can expect a steep climb this year and next
12 Jul 2023
By Kevin Trenberth | Global warming took off in the mid-1970s when the rise in global mean surface temperature exceeded natural variability.
Does carbon offsetting do more harm than good?
12 Jul 2023
After years of campaigning by activists, the tide is finally turning on the idea of companies buying carbon credits to compensate for their emissions.
World's war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot
12 Jul 2023
When it comes to taking stock of global emissions, there's an elephant in the room: the world's armed forces.
Summer 2022 heatwaves killed 61,000 people in Europe
12 Jul 2023
Last year's summer was the hottest season ever recorded in Europe, and a new estimate shows there were over 61,000 heat-related excess deaths during this period.
Climate change cooperation could curb the chill in China-EU ties
12 Jul 2023
The conventional wisdom about the ongoing chill in China-EU ties, which dates back to at least the COVID-19 pandemic, is that it may now be irreversible.
What El Niño means for the world’s perilous climate tipping points
12 Jul 2023
The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived and are expected to become moderate to strong as they develop over the coming year.
Who should pay developing world’s climate change bill?
12 Jul 2023
Climate action inextricably linked to financial stability of developing nations that woefully lack the trillions needed to meet the challenge.
Drop carbon offsetting-based environmental claims, companies urged
11 Jul 2023
Companies should drop offsetting-based environmental claims and adopt a “climate contribution” model instead, according to a new quality standard.
Beekeeping in Solomon Islands to diversify incomes and fight climate change
11 Jul 2023
In a remote community in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, 10,000 bees have recently taken up residence and local keepers-in-training are buzzing to get to work.
Climate change challenges hydropower-dependent Austria
11 Jul 2023
In Austria's Alps, construction workers toil in a huge underground project aimed at storing hydropower as climate change has reduced the country's water-dependent electricity production.
Nauru prepares to mine deep seas in big climate controversy
11 Jul 2023
Nauru sees rare earth metals as key to the green transition. But mining them could threaten vital marine ecosystems.
‘Historic milestone’: Ecuador nears vote to keep Amazon oil on the ground
11 Jul 2023
The fate of the Yasuní rainforest, at the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, will be decided at the polls this August, when the nation votes on whether to leave large oil reserves found within Yasuní on the ground.
At least 22 die in India as extra-heavy monsoon rains trigger severe flooding, landslides
11 Jul 2023
In the capital New Delhi, more rain was recorded in a single day than at any time in the past 40 years – a total of 15.3cm.
Turbulence has increased with climate change since 1979 - study
10 Jul 2023
Fasten your seat belts and get ready for yet another potential impact of climate change: bumpier airplane rides.
China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened.
10 Jul 2023
Carbon emissions from China are growing faster now than before COVID-19 struck, dashing hopes the pandemic may have put the world’s most polluting nation on a new emissions trajectory.
UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record
10 Jul 2023
An unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.
What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change?
10 Jul 2023
Extreme weather events in the world’s most populous and one of the poorest sub regions susceptible to food insecurity, displacement and diseases.
Shipping agrees net-zero goal but critics chide deal
10 Jul 2023
The global shipping industry has agreed to reduce planet warming gases to net-zero "by or around 2050", but critics say the deal is fatally flawed.
French court rejects NGOs' bid to compel TotalEnergies to curb emissions
10 Jul 2023
A French court declined to consider a case brought by a coalition of environmental groups and local authorities which was seeking to compel TotalEnergies to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.
Human adaptation to heat can’t keep up with human-caused climate change
7 Jul 2023
The last time the Earth was hotter than it is today was at least 125,000 years ago, long before anything that resembled human civilization appeared.
New methane source: groundwater springs of Norway
7 Jul 2023
Climate change has exposed a new source of methane in the Arctic: groundwater springs.
It’s time to prepare for the worst on climate change
7 Jul 2023
We cannot predict how extensive climate change will turn out to be over the coming decades, nor can we predict its economic and social impact.
Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?
7 Jul 2023
In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe.
Tracking ships' icy paths amidst climate change
7 Jul 2023
There has been much buzz about the warming planet's melting Arctic region opening shipping routes and lengthening travel seasons in ocean passageways that ice once blocked.
Preserving peatlands - slowing climate change with bogs
7 Jul 2023
Peatlands are very often the setting for chilling folklore. But they serve an important function - for the climate and biodiversity.
Controversial COP28 host UAE unveils $54bn push to triple renewables
6 Jul 2023
COP28 host the United Arab Emirates said it will aim to triple its renewables base by 2030 backed by $54bn of investments.
Two-thirds of fertilizer is lost to run-off. This invention could recycle it.
6 Jul 2023
Researchers fine tune smart farming with an ingenious gel that senses nitrate waste from fertilizer runoff and transforms it into ammonia—to produce healthier crops.
Does a new ‘global pact’ accelerate climate finance for developing countries?
6 Jul 2023
Climate hazards are escalating, nations are mired in debt and the costs of food and energy have soared around the world.
The cascading effects of bringing back sea otters
6 Jul 2023
In Oregon and California, efforts to repopulate these furry engineers could revive struggling ocean ecosystems.
To save the planet, should we really be moving slower?
6 Jul 2023
John Maynard Keynes once observed that dating from “say, to two thousand years before Christ—down to the beginning of the 18th century, there was no very great change in the standard of life of the average man living in the civilised centres of the earth.”
Climate change causes a communication breakdown in the animal world
6 Jul 2023
Some ant species are struggling to follow trails, as warming temperatures cause a certain pheromone they use to communicate to decay.
Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse - scientists call it the 'new abnormal'
5 Jul 2023
As smoky as the northern hemisphere summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change.
Future generations will view climate inaction as we view child labour
5 Jul 2023
Future generations will look at current older generations in the same way older generations now view those who sent children up chimneys, according to the head of The Wildlife Trusts.
Monday world's hottest day since records began
5 Jul 2023
The world's average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time.
Seaweed may not be the climate solution we hoped for
5 Jul 2023
To sink just 1 gigaton of carbon emissions a year, recent simulations suggest massive seaweed farms would have to cover 1 million square kilometers of the ocean's most productive areas.
Threat of EU carbon tax prompts dubious “green aluminium” claims in Mozambique
5 Jul 2023
Mozambique’s biggest industry claims its aluminium is green, which would help it avoid European taxes – but those claims have been questioned.
Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests
5 Jul 2023
Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests.
500 Australian businesses back 75% climate target
Today 10:46am
Atlassian, Canva and Fortescue are among a coalition of more than 500 businesses operating in Australia that are backing a 75% emissions reduction target for 2030, which modelling from Deloitte found was technically achievable.
Ørsted shares at all-time low after Trump halts work on US windfarm
Today 10:46am
Shares drop by 17% after stop-work order on $1.5bn project off Rhode Island, which was 80% complete.
China's carbon market to introduce absolute emissions caps from 2027
Today 10:46am
China will tighten its carbon trading market by introducing absolute emissions caps in some industries for the first time starting by 2027.
EU wildfires hit new record as flames scorch area larger than Cyprus
Mon 25 Aug 2025
The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.
What happens to net zero if the trees don’t survive?
20 Aug 2025
When climate change undermines the climate plan.
Challenges persist in bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump
29 Jul 2025
After years of delay, the deep-sea mining plans of Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) now appear to be progressing as it pursues a controversial new path to securing a license to mine in international waters under U.S. jurisdiction.
India needs $467 billion climate finance by 2030 to decarbonise 4 key sectors
Mon 25 Aug 2025
India will need to mobilise USD $467 billion in climate finance by 2030 to put four of its most carbon-intensive sectors – power, steel, cement and transport – on a low-carbon pathway.
Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say
13 Aug 2025
Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms.
Iconic Antarctic species at risk amid 'regime shift', with 'rapid and self-perpetuating changes'
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment.
Africa’s top climate change challenges: a fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds
Fri 22 Aug 2025
African countries have made binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To do this, they will need to shift to renewable energy and stop mining and using fossil fuels like oil and coal.
Amazon nations pledge support for Brazil's COP30 rainforest fund
Today 10:46am
The fund will be backed by an initial, one-time $25-billion contribution from donor nations, along with $100 billion in private funds.
Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of COP30
20 Aug 2025
Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans.
