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An ancient desert-dwelling culture embraces hydroponics
2 Aug 2023
With droughts on the rise, India’s pastoralists are turning to modern techniques to conserve water — and a way of life.
Britain commits to hundreds of North Sea oil and gas licences
1 Aug 2023
Britain commits to granting hundreds of licences for North Sea oil and gas extraction, drawing criticism from environmental campaigners.
Greenland ice sheets are weaker to climate change than we thought
1 Aug 2023
A new study suggests the ice sheets could be much more sensitive to human-driven climate change than previously estimated.
The oil industry has succumbed to a dangerous new climate denialism
1 Aug 2023
If we have not been warned of the dangers of climate change this summer, we never will be.
Millions of jobs in food production are disappearing — a change in mindset would help to keep them
1 Aug 2023
Making progress on internationally agreed goals for sustainable development, climate change and biodiversity will require major changes to how the world’s food is produced and distributed.
China: Typhoon Doksuri floods Beijing, thousands evacuated
1 Aug 2023
Authorities have issued the highest weather alert as Beijing is hit with the remnants of typhoon Doksuri.
Can Tuvalu be saved?
1 Aug 2023
To combat the disappearance of its land, this island nation is digitizing its very existence.
Humanity 'has agency over future': new head of UN climate panel
31 Jul 2023
Jim Skea will bring "a judicious blend of realism and optimism" to his leadership of the UN's climate expert panel, including a firm belief that humanity is not powerless to confront global warming.
Is China’s surge in coal consumption just a passing phase?
31 Jul 2023
China’s increase in coal use is inflicting damage on its green credentials, given its progress in developing renewable energy.
Why is there an Argentina-sized chunk missing from the Antarctic?
31 Jul 2023
As red-hot oceans amplify deadly heat waves, storms and floods on land, exactly what’s going on beneath the waves remains a big unknown.
French leader goes green to woo pacific islands
31 Jul 2023
France's President Emmanuel Macron stripped off his suit jacket to wander the wild forests of Papua New Guinea on a green-tinted charm offensive in the South Pacific.
G20 climate talks fail to deliver emission cuts despite leadership pleas
31 Jul 2023
Cop28 president, Sultan Al Jaber and UN climate change boss, Simon Stiell, had called on G20 countries to show leadership and deliver ambitious emissions cuts.
Climate change disasters caused US$36B loss in Asia in 2022: Report
31 Jul 2023
Asia is the world’s most disaster-impacted region, with 81 weather, climate and water-related disasters recorded last year, killing more than 5,000 people and affecting 50 million.
Effects of climate change increasing in Asia, WMO says
28 Jul 2023
Extreme weather events caused by climate change are on the rise in Asia and bound to affect food security and the continent's ecosystems, the World Meteorological Organization said.
Emissions from Greek wildfires equivalent of 2.3m barrels of oil, data shows
28 Jul 2023
Emissions from the wildfires that have ravaged parts of Greece in recent weeks are the highest in two decades — similar to more than 220,000 petrol cars driven for a year.
Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere can’t undo all the effects of climate change
28 Jul 2023
Climate change turns more places into deserts. Sucking CO2 out of the air can’t undo all the damage.
Climate change lawsuits more than double in 5 years, UN report finds
28 Jul 2023
The increasing number of climate change cases indicates that climate-related lawsuits are becoming an essential component of ensuring climate justice.
G20 environment chiefs ready fresh bid for climate deals
28 Jul 2023
G20 environment ministers in India readied a fresh bid to strike deals tackling climate change, days after heavy criticism for failing to agree on cutting fossil fuel use.
El Niño: what happens when things get too hot to handle?
28 Jul 2023
High heat is due to a combination of the El Niño weather event and ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.
‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries
27 Jul 2023
Wildfires were burning in at least nine countries across the Mediterranean, with thousands of firefighters in Europe and north Africa working to contain flames stoked by high temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds.
IPCC: Scottish professor to lead top global climate body
27 Jul 2023
A Scottish scientist has been chosen to lead one of the world's most influential climate change bodies.
Heat wave puts over half of US population under heat alerts
27 Jul 2023
A heat wave that has hammered the southern US. for weeks has expanded, triggering heat alerts for over 170 million people, according to the National Weather Service.
Typhoon Doksuri displaces thousands in northern Philippines
27 Jul 2023
Nearly 16,000 people displaced as ferocious storm floods low-lying villages and knocks out electricity.
Forests are losing their ability to hold carbon
27 Jul 2023
US forests could worsen global warming instead of easing it because they are being destroyed by natural disasters and are losing their ability to absorb planet-warming gases as they get older.
Climate change is pushing young people in Honduras to leave farming and migrate
27 Jul 2023
Drought and erratic rainfall in Honduras is undermining agriculture and pushing young people to migrate in search of a more secure future.
Vital Atlantic Ocean current could collapse as soon as 2025
26 Jul 2023
A study warns that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is close to a tipping point that would severely disrupt the climate – but other researchers say the timing is impossible to predict.
New scientific report identifies "the fingerprints of climate change"
26 Jul 2023
The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, an international study has found.
Climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out
26 Jul 2023
Seven leading climate scientists describe how they felt as much of the northern hemisphere is engulfed by blistering heatwaves, and a number of global land and ocean climate records are broken.
Is climate change making cloudbursts more frequent?
26 Jul 2023
Intense rainfall in the Himalayan regions of India’s Kashmir state and adjacent mountainous cold desert of Ladakh earlier this week destroyed roads and caused flooding of dozens of villages.
IMF worried about 'material' impact of climate change on economies
26 Jul 2023
The International Monetary Fund calls for coordinated efforts to address climate change, warning extreme weather is posing material risks, especially to economies saddled with high debts.
Google teams up with climate scientists to monitor permafrost with AI
26 Jul 2023
Scientists are partnering with Google's philanthropic arm to create a first of its kind, near-real-time way to monitor thawing permafrost across the Arctic.
Is it really hotter now than any time in 100,000 years?
25 Jul 2023
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this hot before?
Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet
25 Jul 2023
This winter has confirmed what scientists had feared — the sea ice around Antarctica is in sharp decline, with experts now concerned it may not recover.
Rhodes wildfire forces thousands of evacuations, tourists flee
25 Jul 2023
Thousands of tourists and residents fleeing wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes took refuge in schools and shelters, with many evacuated on private boats as flames threatened resorts and coastal villages.
Climate change causes culture clashes in Iraq's cities
25 Jul 2023
Drought is forcing thousands of rural Iraqis migrate to cities for work, bringing with them their own cultural ideas.
There’s a glut of electric vehicles on the market–for now
25 Jul 2023
The auto industry’s transition from fossil fuels to electric power is accelerating, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be a smooth process.
Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the Indo-Pacific
25 Jul 2023
A concept that will become ever more familiar – in the courts, too – with more action needed to avoid irreversible consequences of climate change.
Dozens of oil lobbyists attended secretive shipping emissions talks
24 Jul 2023
Lobbyists from oil companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco joined government negotiators at recent secretive talks on how to cut emissions from the shipping sector.
Leading Nasa climate expert says July likely to be hottest month on record
24 Jul 2023
July will likely be Earth’s hottest month in hundreds if not thousands of years, says the director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
COP28 summit host UAE's climate plans ranked 'insufficient'
24 Jul 2023
The United Arab Emirates, host of this year's COP28 UN climate summit, has set out "insufficient" plans to tackle its own contribution to climate change, an independent research group.
The global fight for critical minerals is costly and damaging
24 Jul 2023
Sustainability, equity and security are all at risk in the rush to break China’s dominance over the production of rare-earth metals.
Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production
24 Jul 2023
The steel industry has made a ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon forms of production, a new report says, but remains short of a 1.5C-compatible pathway.
New machine learning-based model boosting Africa's preparedness climate change
24 Jul 2023
Scientists have unveiled a first-ever weather forecasting model using artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to help vulnerable African countries build resilience to climate impacts.
Canada’s wildfires prompt US air quality alerts for 70 million people in 32 states
21 Jul 2023
Smoke from the hundreds of blazes in Canada, has once again drifted across the border into the United States, prompting another round of air quality warnings.
Climate action is an insurance policy for the world
21 Jul 2023
Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is here, and the effects are all around.
South Korea floods: tunnel horror brings home climate fears
21 Jul 2023
As hundreds of rescue workers comb the muddied waters of a South Korean underpass, the stagnant rainwater, once up to the ceiling, now only covers their knees.
This heatwave is a climate omen. But it’s not too late to change course
21 Jul 2023
The warming of the planet – including the most up-to-date data for 2023 – is entirely consistent with what climate modelers warned decades ago.
Europe’s heat wave: Greek wildfires force hundreds to flee as temperatures rise
21 Jul 2023
Hundreds of people have been evacuated as wildfires rage in Greece, and Southern Europe faces another week of sweltering, above-40C temperatures in a heat wave that experts say is linked to climate change.
South America will pledge to end Amazon deforestation by 2030
21 Jul 2023
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s ambitious pledge to end illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by 2030 is going regional.
Extreme weather hits world’s seven continents in July 2023
20 Jul 2023
Extreme weather events across the globe this month have already featured on more than 114 frontpages in at least 84 newspapers, published across 32 countries.
Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms
23 Oct 2025
The Albanese government wants the power to strip companies of any financial gains made from breaking environment laws, as part of a package of landmark reforms to be put before parliament in the next two weeks.
ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws
Tue 28 Oct 2025
Exxon Mobil Corporation is suing the state of California over a pair of 2023 climate disclosure laws that the company says infringe upon its free speech rights, namely by forcing it to embrace the message that large companies are uniquely to blame for climate change.
In China, climate litigation starts with the state
16 Oct 2025
With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsewhere.
Norway faces European Court climate ruling over oil licences
Wed 29 Oct 2025
The European Court of Human Rights will decide on Tuesday if Norway breached its climate obligations when it awarded Arctic oil exploration licenses in 2016.
UK Prime Minister will attend Brazil climate summit
21 Oct 2025
Keir Starmer will travel to the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 United Nations climate summit next month, Downing Street has confirmed, after weeks of speculation that he would not.
Renewables are a global economic engine, not a culture war threat
2 Oct 2025
Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Most Cambodia and Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas
Wed 29 Oct 2025
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record
21 Oct 2025
The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists.
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
13 Oct 2025
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate".
Angola lowers climate ambition in blow to spirit of Paris Agreement
14 Oct 2025
Angola has scaled back its targets for reducing emissions in its new national climate plan, saying it chose “realism and implementability” over the Paris Agreement's calls for governments to set progressively more ambitious goals.
Brazil's Indigenous battle with a dry Amazon rainforest
23 Oct 2025
As pastures and thirsty crops dry up the Amazon, Indigenous people try to adapt traditional farming methods.
Most countries fail to submit new climate pledges ahead of summit
Wed 29 Oct 2025
Only 64 countries have submitted new plans to cut carbon, the UN says, despite all being required to do so ahead of next month's COP30 summit.
