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Indigenous elders lose landmark climate battle against Australian government
Today 11:30am
The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts of climate change.

US: Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
Today 11:30am
Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

Biofuel demand to soak up more than half of US soyoil production next year
Today 11:30am
Biofuel demand to soak up more than half of US soyoil production next year, USDA says.

Have renewables decreased electricity prices?
Today 11:30am
There is a persistent argument in certain circles that renewable energy is associated with higher costs than fossil fuels.

Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial — it’s never ‘too late’ for change
Today 11:30am
Veteran environmentalist David Suzuki believes the time has passed us to stop climate change. He’s wrong.

How Ireland’s ‘mediocre’ milk powder made it big in West Africa
Today 11:30am
Polluting dairy industry accused of using “highly unethical” marketing to pass off ultra-processed “poor quality by-products” as milk.

HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election.

Where next for carbon removals? Understanding a market that could prove critical to net zero goals
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Experts in finance, carbon capture, and energy-from-waste discuss the emerging market for engineered and nature-based carbon removals during BusinessGreen's latest webinar.

EU wants to see China take more ambitious climate action
Tue 15 Jul 2025
The world needs China to show more leadership on climate action, highlighting the importance of cutting planet-heating emissions and reducing the Chinese economy's reliance on coal.

Millions of tons of tiny plastic particles are polluting the ocean, study finds
Tue 15 Jul 2025
At least 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics are estimated to be floating in the North Atlantic Ocean, weighing more than all wild land mammals combined.

Sand, dust storms affect about 330 million people due to climate change: UN
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Nearly half the global population has also been exposed to dust levels exceeding WHO safety thresholds.

How heatwaves and soaring temperatures are changing tourism across Europe
Tue 15 Jul 2025
With unbearable heat and a worsening climate crisis becoming the norm, could the yearly summer holiday be a thing of the past?

Auditors can’t save carbon offsets
Mon 14 Jul 2025
The theory behind carbon offset projects is appealing. The reality has been less encouraging.

Rivers in southwest China breach warning levels, with thousands evacuated
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Twenty-five rivers in southwestern China exceeded safe levels, after more than 10,000 people were evacuated as the remnants of former typhoon Danas converged with East Asian monsoon rains.

Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.

1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change
Mon 14 Jul 2025
We now have the ability to rapidly assess the death toll of climate change after extreme heat – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave

Rich nations accused of delaying loss and damage fund with slow payments
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Wealthy countries have handed over less than half of what they promised to the loss and damage fund for victims of climate change

“Compliant deception”: MPs warn of oil industry greenwashing at debate on proposed fossil ad ban
Mon 14 Jul 2025
UK’s first parliamentary debate on the issue drew comparisons both with tobacco industry tactics and the industry’s now widely accepted ad ban.

How Mamdani connects climate policy to his affordability agenda as he runs for New York mayor
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Many of the democratic socialist’s policies aim to slash carbon emissions and boost environmental justice.

Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and rapid warming of Earth. But what has remained a mystery is why these extremely hot conditions persisted for millions of years.

Water contaminant levels can remain high for eight years after a wildfire, study finds
9 Jul 2025
Scientists are warning that wildfire pollutants can continue to contaminate local waterways for up to eight years after a wildfire event.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes
8 Jul 2025
President Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

'Exactly what we would expect': climate scientists weigh in on deadly Texas flooding
8 Jul 2025
As the death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas continued to rise, climate scientists this weekend underscored the link between more frequent and severe extreme weather events and the worsening climate emergency caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels.

Extreme heatwaves may cause global decline in dairy production, scientists warn
8 Jul 2025
Israel-based study finds that by 2050 average daily milk production could be reduced by 4% as a result of worsening heat stress.

Asia warming at twice the global average: WMO Report
8 Jul 2025
The State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report shows the continent is heating up at twice the global average rate, leading to devastating impacts for ecosystems, societies and economies across the region.

In Latin America, the energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits
8 Jul 2025
A new report shows that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Africa is not a solar geoengineering test site
8 Jul 2025
This potentially dangerous course of action would divert financing and support from real solutions, while putting the continent’s ecosystems and communities at risk.

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules
7 Jul 2025
Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change.

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ set to slash through US climate and justice drive
7 Jul 2025
Trump’s legislation will hurt clean energy, boost fossil fuels and end investment in environmental justice. Climate advocates vow to continue the fight.

UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance
7 Jul 2025
Leaders push for better financial systems at the Financing for Development summit to help poor nations cope with climate and economic shocks.

China solar and wind installations break more world records
7 Jul 2025
China is leading the world in new solar and wind installations and doing so at a record-shattering pace.

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report
7 Jul 2025
From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change.

Climate target deal in time for COP30 will be ‘difficult’, Denmark warns
7 Jul 2025
Denmark warns EU climate deal for COP30 risks slipping amid tight deadline and deep divisions.

EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal
4 Jul 2025
Campaigners accuse the European Commission of adding “loopholes” and “distractions” to the 90% emissions reduction target.

An Israeli startup says its new technology will save the planet. Scientists have doubts
4 Jul 2025
The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to fund what it describes as a groundbreaking technology in the fight against climate change.

UN expert urges criminalising fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying
4 Jul 2025
Rapporteur calls for defossilisation of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms.

Central Chinese cities fight floods unleashed by record rain
4 Jul 2025
A record summer downpour in China's central province of Hubei dumped more than a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours on the city of Xianfeng, prompting authorities to move 18,000 people to safety, shut schools, and suspend bus services.

Record-breaking sea temperatures in the Mediterranean spark fresh warnings from scientists
4 Jul 2025
Intense marine heat can have devastating consequences for ecosystems with its ripple effects also extending onto land.

What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife if Trump expands oil drilling in fragile northern Alaska
4 Jul 2025
The area is vital for the health of the planet. However, its future is at risk.

Global climate science body roiled by controversies stoked by Saudis, US
3 Jul 2025
The proposed selection of a Saudi Aramco oil company staffer as one of the authors of a key science report has been denounced as “political capture.”

Warmer seas fuel dangerous ‘weather bomb’ in New South Wales
3 Jul 2025
If the storm shapes up as predicted, we can expect to see damage to houses and trees as well as significant beach erosion – especially in heavily populated areas exposed to the storm’s southern flank.

Clean energy stocks jump after tax on solar and wind projects is removed from Trump’s big bill
3 Jul 2025
Shares of renewable energy companies are rising after a tax on solar and wind was removed from the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Activists protest at London headquarters of global ad giant promoting fossil fuels
3 Jul 2025
The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

Why climate action is unstoppable — and 'climate realism' is a myth
3 Jul 2025
According to Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasts with their misleading claims and remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

‘A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis
3 Jul 2025
The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton.

Scientists are just beginning to understand how life makes clouds, and their discoveries may drastically improve climate science
2 Jul 2025
Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form.

Bonn bulletin: Just transition talks find firmer footing
2 Jul 2025
After stalling at COP29, governments agree on how to frame a just transition that is fair to workers, protects nature and promotes clean energy access.

Is climate change really accelerating?
2 Jul 2025
COMMENT: An article titled “The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster” by the New York Times has kicked off a heated debate among climate scientists over the evidence that climate change is accelerating.

Next EU climate target to allow carbon offsets from 2036, draft shows
1 Jul 2025
The European Commission will permit countries to outsource a portion of their climate efforts to poorer countries from 2036, according to a draft proposal.

Pakistan slams climate ‘injustice’ as deadly floods hit country again
1 Jul 2025
Pakistan’s climate minister says country facing ‘crisis of injustice’ as more deadly flooding and extreme weather events hit the country.