World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’
“We are living through climate collapse in real time,” the UN secretary-general…
Concerns ahead of Cop28 climate summit that Rishi Sunak among leaders backsliding on green measures
The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, will be seeking assurances from the UK that there will…
Study finds impact of heat on millions of people went unrecorded, highlighting limitations many African countries face
A record-breaking heatwave in Madagascar in October would have been “virtually…
State-run oil and gas fields in the United Arab Emirates have been flaring gas virtually daily despite having committed 20 years ago to a policy of zero routine flaring, the Guardian can reveal.
State oil company’s huge expansion plans make its CEO’s role as president of UN climate summit ‘ridiculous’, say researchers
The state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, whose CEO will preside…
World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning
The abundance of climate-heating gases in the atmosphere reached record highs in…
Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade
Extreme droughts that have wrecked the lives of millions of people in Syria,…
Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’
The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would…
The carbon budget remaining to limit the climate crisis to 1.5C of global heating is now “tiny”, according to an analysis, sending a “dire” message about the adequacy of climate action.
The carbon…
The renowned US scientist’s new book examines 4bn years of climate history to conclude we are in a ‘fragile moment’ but there is still time to act
“We haven’t yet exceeded the bounds of viable human…
First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged
Earth’s life support systems have been so damaged that the planet is “well…
The climate crisis and emerging El Niño event pushed up temperatures and drove extreme weather across the world
The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, as the climate crisis and emerging …
Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions of people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths
Life-threatening periods of high heat and humidity will spread rapidly across the…
Analysis makes it clear human-caused global heating is destroying lives with worse to come without sharp emissions cuts
The human-caused climate crisis is undeniably to blame for the deadly…
Oil, gas and coal benefited from $7tn in support in 2022 despite being primary cause of climate crisis.
Fossil fuels benefited from record subsidies of $13m (£10.3m) a minute in 2022, according…
Exclusive: State oil firm, whose chief will preside over Cop28, also accused of ‘incoherent’ reduction targets.
The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in…
By announcing hundreds of new oil and gas licences, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has become a “dangerous radical” pursuing “moral and economic madness”.
The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) by scientists…
Trillions of dollars of subsidies for fossil fuels, farming and fishing are causing “environmental havoc”, according to the World Bank, severely harming people and the planet.
Many countries spend…
The planet is being hit with a double whammy of global heating in 2023. On top of the inexorable rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gas emissions is an emerging El Niño. This sporadic…