Hurricane Milton closes in on Florida as thousands flee

Today 11:00am - Residents have been warned to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday night local time, with $1 trillion worth of commercial properties directly in its path.

Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds

Tuesday - New research challenges the idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is a cleaner alternative to burning coal.

COP16 host Colombia pushes for unified UN climate and nature pledges

Tuesday - Colombia wants to write a unified climate and biodiversity pledge, seeking to combine efforts to protect nature with those to tackle climate change in United Nations talks.

Why we should price shipping emissions

Tuesday - OPINION: While shipping is essential to the global economy, so is reducing the associated pollution. Requiring shipping companies to pay for their vessels’ greenhouse-gas emissions would go a long way toward advancing this objective, while generating much-needed revenues for climate-vulnerable developing countries.

Indonesia proceeds with ambitious energy transition

Tuesday - The U.S., other developed nations and private banks pledged $21.6 billion to the Just Energy Transition Partnership, generating cautious optimism. But financing has been slow, prompting concerns in Jakarta.

Enough, already: why humanity must get on board with the concept of ‘sufficiency’

Friday - Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis

2 Oct 24 - The historic North Carolina city was touted as a climate ‘haven’ – a reputation deadly Hurricane Helene left in ruins.

Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas

2 Oct 24 - Scientists are urgently calling for global action, including reducing fossil fuel use, as the Pacific Ocean’s sea levels rise faster than the global average and the warming Indian Ocean drives...

Sorry, AI won’t ‘fix’ climate change

2 Oct 24 - OPINION: OpenAI’s Sam Altman claims AI will deliver an "Intelligence Age," but tech breakthroughs alone can't solve global warming.

Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged

2 Oct 24 - Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy by specific times could trigger benevolent cascades, a report claims.

Sloths may die out due to climate change

2 Oct 24 - The survival of sloths is under threat due to climate change, according to a new study.

ESG is dead. Long live ESG

1 Oct 24 - OPINION: We must urgently address the tension between profitability and sustainability.

Earth is close to passing 7 of 9 planetary boundaries

30 Sep 24 - Scientists have found that Earth may soon pass another planetary boundary, meaning it could be operating outside of the safe limits for seven of the nine defined planetary boundaries.

Stay or go? Pacific Islanders face climate's grim choice

30 Sep 24 - Rising waters are slowly but surely swallowing Carnie Reimers's backyard in the Marshall Islands, pushing her toward an agonizing choice: stay in the only home she's ever known or leave and face the...

Helene gaining strength from climate change effects

27 Sep 24 - Tropical Storm Helene is gaining strength from warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico, an effect linked to climate change that appears to make hurricanes and storms more powerful.

Countries can transform global energy sector by fully implementing 2030 goals: IEA

26 Sep 24 - A new report from the International Energy Agency shows tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency are possible with the right enabling conditions.

Poor nations ask world's richest to do more on climate

26 Sep 24 - Developing nations on Monday pleaded at the U.N. General Assembly for the world's richest to do more to help them cope with the hardships they face from climate extremes.

UN adopts pact that aims to save global cooperation

25 Sep 24 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a "Pact for the Future", which U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement that is a "step-change towards more effective,...

Ozone layer on track for full recovery, WMO report says

25 Sep 24 - Earth’s ozone layer — damaged in the 1970s and 1980s by ozone-depleting substances — is continuing to recover well, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s newest Ozone and UV...

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