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…
An army of fake social media accounts on Twitter and the blogging site Medium have been promoting and defending the controversial hosting of a UN climate summit by the United Arab Emirates.
It is now too late to save summer Arctic sea ice, research has shown, and scientists say preparations need to be made for the increased extreme weather across the northern hemisphere that is likely…
‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails
Exclusive: UN conference president Sultan Al Jaber is also head of oil firm, which was consulted on how to respond to…
The president of Turkmenistan has launched two initiatives aimed at cutting the colossal leaks of methane from the country’s oil and gas industry. Success would represent a major achievement in…
Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme…