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As Guyana shows, carbon offsets will not save the Amazon rainforest
3 Aug 2023
With all their flaws, carbon offsets are not the solution to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest – leaders should acknowledge that.
UAE promises to allow climate protests at COP28
3 Aug 2023
Official permission is required for protests in the Gulf nation, which is hosting UN climate talks this year.
Climate change made July hotter for 80% of humans on Earth
3 Aug 2023
Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than two billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a flash study.
Heat wave forces shutdown in Iran
3 Aug 2023
The government claims the move is to safeguard the well-being of its citizens as soaring temperatures continue to pose health risks, though it raises questions as to the country's readiness for a crisis.
UK's North Sea move shows tensions between energy security, climate
3 Aug 2023
The United Kingdom now finds itself at the epicenter of global tensions between energy security and lofty climate goals, which are playing out ahead of the COP28 conference in Dubai.
International talks end without go-ahead for deep-sea mining
2 Aug 2023
An international meeting to negotiate rules over deep-sea mining has ended with no green light to start industrial-scale mining.
Australian doctors want urgent action on climate threats
2 Aug 2023
Medical colleges representing over 100,000 doctors, physicians and medical experts say Australia's healthcare system is unprepared for the next disaster.
As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases rise
2 Aug 2023
In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. Fifty-three people died.
A sun shield over earth? Catch an asteroid, and it might work
2 Aug 2023
A resurfaced idea for solar geoengineering imagines a sunlight-blocking space shield tethered to an asteroid.
Europe’s most important trade route is at risk due to climate change
2 Aug 2023
The Rhine River has been a reliable shipping lane for centuries, helping spawn industrial giants along its banks.
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.
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.
