climate crisis

It’s a tough watch, but it shows that if we bring down emissions now we can avoid a tipping point. And it's neatly broken down into easy-to-understand sections, making Breaking Boundaries: The…

The European Union is planning to slap an import levy on steel, cement and aluminum produced in countries with lower environmental standards, as it seeks to become a world leader on climate without…

East Africa and Uganda, in particular, host some of the largest refugee populations in the world who fled conflict and violence in especially from South Sudan and DR Congo. The plight of refugees is…

When the Guardian began reporting on the climate crisis 70 years ago, people were worried that warmer temperatures would make it harder to complain about the weather. Today it is the biggest…

Taps are now shut off two days a week, and worse is to come unless action is taken on climate crisis Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake is so low that parts of it have dried and turned to grass. Jetties that…

What kind of thinking goes into engaging in planetary sabotage? Two weeks ago, I looked at the question of the anxiety that the climate crisis is causing our psyches. But, if you think about it,…

Economic-climate models are a powerful tool for providing insight into sensible climate policy choices and how they would impact our economy. As the EU announces stricter climate targets, there are…

Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought extra chaos on the climate, according to a report published…

Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows.

Republican governor says measure sends message that Wyoming is ‘prepared to bring litigation to protect her interests’ Wyoming is faced by a transition to renewable energy that’s gathering pace…

Describing hotter temperatures and altered weather as the "new normal" under climate change has become cliché, and updated NOAA data makes it official. The U.S. is now hotter than it was just a…

President Joe Biden calls climate change “the existential crisis of our time” and has taken steps to curb it that match those words. They include returning the U.S.

Prior to the pandemic, it was expected that 30,000 people would attend the Glasgow climate summit. The UK is still planning to host the upcoming global climate summit, known as Cop26, in person in…

There are ambitious new goals in the US and UK. But governments also need to decarbonise the economy and rethink how it’s planned.

Exclusive: Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will…

In the runup to Cop26, public knowledge about the crisis is shallow, with few understanding the scale of the threat. One of the key lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that strong policies require…

Global asset managers, tired of dealing with multiple regimes for disclosing climate and environment-related risks, say governments need to establish a uniform, yet simple, metric for reporting that…

In this extract, top atmospheric scientist Dave Lowe explains why despite political inaction he believes we can build a sustainable future.

When it comes to addressing the climate emergency, there have been hopeful moments before that ultimately led to nothing. Now, hope rises again

By tackling climate change and biodiversity loss, everyone will be better off, thanks to better jobs, cleaner air and water, fewer pandemics, and improved health and well-being. But, as with any…