The most comprehensive study of the health of the world's coral reefs to date shows that warming temperatures driven by the human-caused climate crisis wiped out a staggering 14% of the diverse…
Rising temperatures heated by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels like oil and gas are melting permafrost — land previously frozen year round — and causing problems for Russia's oil and gas…
Winners ‘laid foundation of our knowledge of Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it’.
Three scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on climate and complex…
Trillions of dollars a year are ‘adding fuel to the fire’ of the climate crisis, experts say
The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every minute, according to analysis by the…
A Cop26 insider from a developing nation on why the richer world needs to meet its funding targets
One of the biggest issues at Cop26 is climate finance, the funding that is supposed to be provided…
Ambition set out in run-up to crucial COP26 summit in November
All electricity in the UK should be produced from clean sources by 2035, prime minister Boris Johnson has announced.
The site is the first woodland of its size to be planted in Glasgow in generations
More than a thousand schoolchildren have been invited to create a woodland ahead of the COP26 climate summit in…
Six of top 10, including China and Russia, yet to show ambition on emissions cuts before Cop26
Analysis of the total carbon dioxide emissions of countries since 1850 has revealed the nations with…
Global analysis of indoor and outdoor pollution also finds link to low birth weight.
Air pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight…
Data highlights urgent need for government action to introduce low-carbon heat pumps, researchers say
The millions of gas boilers in the UK’s homes produce twice as much climate-heating carbon…
The pivotal Democratic senator owns millions of dollars in coal stocks. Shouldn’t he recuse himself from US climate talks?
Joe Manchin has never been this famous. People around the world now know…
UK ‘would be seen as worst hypocrite imaginable’ if plans for deep mine are approved, say environmentalists.
Approving a new deep coalmine in Cumbria would stifle international efforts to…
A majority of voters in the Conservative party’s key 41 constituencies believe the UK should be a world leader on climate
Voters in Tory heartlands want the government to do more to tackle the…
Growing fears of energy security are leading a rethink on Chinese involvement in atomic plans. But what alternative are there?
Among the subjects preoccupying delegates at the Conservative party…
One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand.
Ashort bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South…
Agriculture is the largest anthropogenic source of this gas, accounting for about 40%, leading innovators to offer new solutions to tackle its bovine source
In 2017, Canadian cattle farmers in…
Caring only about our emissions level in 29 years is a bit stupid. Any party worth its salt will stop putting things off and tell us what it’s doing right now.
As the whispers grow of the government…
The UN must urgently appoint a special rapporteur on climate change and human rights to galvanise action on the biggest threat to fundamental freedoms
Climate breakdown is making a mockery of human…
Speaking at a Fridays for Future march in Milan, the environmental activist lambasted ministers for their inaction over the climate emergency.
Thunberg has been in Italy's financial capital to…