Memo reveals pressure on UK climate finance pledge

The government looks set to break its flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge for developing countries, an internal government document seen by the BBC says.

The climate change-denying TikTok post that won't go away

Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial. But a BBC investigation tracked one video that has been viewed millions of times - and found the company is struggling to stop false climate information from spreading across the platform.

Climate change: World's hottest day since records began

The world's average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time. Scientists say the reading was the highest in any instrumental record dating back to the end of the 19th century.

‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power

In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us.

Fukushima plan to release water into ocean approved by UN watchdog

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has approved plans by Japan to release more than 1m tonnes of water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean, despite objections from local fishing communities and other countrie

Ocean temperatures around Australia 0.5C above June average as UN declares an El Niño

Ocean temperatures around Australia last month were 0.5C above average, as the UN’s weather agency declared the world was now in an El Niño.

The Guardian view on Europe’s green deal: blowing in the wind?

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Climate grief is real – and I cannot keep watching images of our dying planet

Many of us have experienced grieving after the death of a family member or a longtime friend. We regard it as a form of suffering which we hope will be alleviated with time. Advice from loved ones, doctors and therapists may help us to cope by offering the solution that time will heal.

Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests

Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests.

Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge

The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can reveal, with the prime minister accused of betraying populations most vulnerable to global heating.

Monday was hottest day for global average temperature on record, as climate crisis bites

This Monday, 3 July 2023, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction.

The Triumph of the Age of the Idiot

There’s a lesson the world isn’t learning these days, in the 21st century. It’s funny, because it’s an old lesson. And it’s funny, because it keeps being proven in ways big, small, and bigger.

Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns

Earth's ecosystems may be careering toward collapse much sooner than scientists thought, a new study of our planet's warming climate has warned.

Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?

Very unusual”, “worrying”, “terrifying”, and “bonkers”; the reactions of veteran scientists to the sharp increase in north Atlantic surface temperatures over the past three months raises the question of whether the world’s climate has entered a more erratic and dangerous phase with the onset of a

The electric car ‘revolution’ is a disaster before it’s begun

The electric car revolution is stalling, of that there can no longer be any doubt. It has left the big global carmakers floundering, uncertain of how to proceed in a race they reluctantly entered in the first place.

Spain eyes massive solar and wind boosts under new energy plan

Spain has raised its targeted 2030 reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 32% up from a previous goal of 23% due, in large part, to a raising of expectations on how much solar PV and wind can be built out by the end of the decade.

Wind, hydrogen and solar fused in Portugal's punchy new energy transition plan

Billionaire Warren Buffett bids big for slice of Biden's record-busting solar auction

The US obtained $105.15m in high bids in an auction for utility-scale solar development across four parcels of federal lands in the state of Nevada’s Amargosa Desert, which could support almost 3GW of renewable energy to the electric grid, according to government officials.

Anxious hydrogen market holding back on investments due to EU uncertainty

The hydrogen industry is cautious about making final investment decisions in Europe as EU regulators struggle to complete the bloc's regulatory puzzle. 

Hydrogen: Unlocking Europe’s potential

Despite the hydrogen economy still being in its infancy, Europe is already buzzing with new projects, as governments and private investors raise their ambition and inject billions into the development of the clean-burning fuel.