Two eminent voices on the climate crisis present clear strategies for tackling emissions, deniers and doomsayers
President Joe Biden has promised a new era of American leadership on global climate…
As the climate crisis worsens, Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers.
The men on the midnight shift smoked cigarettes and cracked jokes in the…
Like all predictions, these should be taken with a grain of salt ...
At the beginning of every year, trend forecasters the world over put together expensive reports predicting what the future will…
Forests are an important asset in the fight against climate change.
New research has found that they sequester around twice as much carbon dioxide as they emit, classifying them as a carbon sink…
In a society currently dominated by social injustice, economic crisis, disease, and rampant misinformation, global trust in leaders and institutions is quickly eroding.
In a society currently…
A new paper argues that returning to estimates for the cost of carbon dioxide used in the Obama era would leave the U.S. far behind its Paris Agreement goals.
Although wetlands cover less than 4% of the Earth's surface, 40% of all animal species live or reproduce in them. One-third of all organic matter on our planet is stored in places like the gigantic …
Let's not waste time. You will need: warm clothes, plenty of firewood and enough supplies (flour, yeast, toilet paper — the usual) to not have to leave the house for the next week or two.
In 2015, Parties to the UNFCCC adopted the Paris Agreement, to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global temperature rise this century well below 2°C above…
Removing CO2 from air will likely be needed if the world is to meet its climate goals, writes Daisy Dunne, but our options for achieving ‘negative emissions’ each come with a unique set of challenges.
As the climate crisis escalates, some have called for more research into technologies that could reflect away the sun’s rays in order to limit temperature rise. Daisy Dunne looks at the technical,…
Why Joe Biden needs to restore shareholder democracy in the US.
We can’t waste any more time addressing the global warming issue we’re facing. The amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere…
Cross-party committee says deprived groups contribute least but suffer most from dirty air.
The government must set tough new air pollution targets to reduce the stark health inequalities suffered…
Over recent months Raja, a farmer in India's Tamil Nadu state, has had a change of routine.
Every few days, the 53-year-old leaves his 30-acre (12-hectare) farm in the Villupuram district — where he…
Smart, activist states could prove as effective at handling the biodiversity crisis as they have at tackling the pandemic
Let’s be honest: few government-commissioned reports make a real difference…
Carbon emission cuts need to be about 80 per cent more ambitious to stay below 2 degree Celsius global warming -- considered a threshold for climate stability and climate-related risks such as…
Experts have described the coronavirus pandemic as the kind of crisis that will become even more likely as the planet warms. But now, researchers think that climate change may have actually played a…
Setting out to rebut defeatist and cynical claims that transitioning the entire global energy system to 100% renewables by 2035 is infeasible, a group of dozens of leading scientists from around the…
Analysis: What policies do we need to see implemented by politicians, what actions from business, what changes in our own everyday lives? Ben Chu explains
The fossil fuel giants need to find new ways to reduce emissions, generate growth and maintain their share price.
The world’s biggest oil companies are no stranger to UK waters, but by the end of…