Oliver Milman

The US is, after decades of political rancor and fossil fuel industry obfuscation, almost certain to make its first significant attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Experts say it will help rewire…

China’s decision to halt cooperation with the US over the climate crisis has provoked alarm, with seasoned climate diplomats urging a swift resumption of talks to help stave off worsening global…

The US is, after decades of political rancor and fossil fuel industry obfuscation, almost certain to make its first significant attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Experts say it will help rewire…

More than half of the human diseases caused by pathogens have been worsened at some point by the sort of impacts associated with the climate crisis, a new and exhaustive study of the link between…

Drake, the rapper, has attempted to defend his use of a large private plane for a series of flights that lasted less than 20 minutes – by revealing that the aircraft was being moved to a storage…

A group of Gen Z activists is targeting gas-guzzling vehicles as frustration mounts over US inaction on the climate crisis by Oliver Milman with photographs by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet

The US has inflicted more than $1.9tn in damage to other countries from the effects of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis that has provided the first measurement of nations’…

A White House adviser and his partner have called on the United Nations to move a key climate change summit from Egypt due to the country’s treatment of LGBTQ people, citing fears that they and other…

Joe Biden’s election triggered a global surge in optimism that the climate crisis would, finally, be decisively confronted. But the US supreme court’s decision last week to curtail America’s ability…

Environmental groups have welcomed Joe Biden’s invoking of national security powers to rapidly expand the production of clean energy technology as a significant advance in the effort to curb…

It was a stunning, grisly act. A man, a climate activist and Buddhist, had set himself on fire on the steps of the US supreme court. He sat upright and didn’t immediately scream despite the agony.…

Heating of the atmosphere, due to the burning of fossil fuels, is seemingly upending a process that long appeared unshakeable. The arrival of spring has seemingly immutable rituals – lengthening…

Centrist Democrat, who holds key swing vote in US Senate, has poured scorn on the idea of phasing out gasoline and diesel cars. Faced with rising gasoline prices, many Americans are now looking to…

Roberts suggests states could claim harm from laws not yet enacted Several conservative justices on the US supreme court signaled on Monday that they may be willing to restrict the federal…

Temperatures in 499 counties across west, north-east and upper midwest US have already breached 1.5C (2.7F) More than a third of the American population is currently experiencing rapid, above-…

Planet-heating emissions rose by 6.2% compared with 2020 Rise largely down to increase in cars and trucks on the road Planet-heating emissions roared back in the United States in 2021, dashing…

Last year was sixth hottest ever recorded, scientists find World ‘warmer now than at any time in the past 2,000 years’ Nearly a quarter of the world’s population experienced a record hot year in…

Trump’s energy department blocked a rule intended to phase out less efficient bulbs. Now Biden plans to move forward, slowly The Biden administration has moved to reverse the depredations endured…

At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently…

Thanks to climate change, armadillos, native to southern America, are making their way up north. And there’s no sign of them stopping their relentless march by Oliver Milman in Sapphire, North…