Seizing on the chance to lower energy bills, support a local business, and help build the green economy, owners of a 1960s-era apartment building in Toronto are updating its balcony railings with…
Cities can cool down by ringing their boundaries with a thick belt of green space, ideally threaded through with lakes and rivers, says the latest research out of China.
Cooling trees and water—even…
Ontario’s newly-minted energy minister Stephen Lecce is coming under fire for recent musings about turning the province into a “clean energy superpower”, with analysts scorching his decision to…
Flights were cancelled for a short time at Cologne-Bonn airport and at Nuremberg airport. Photograph: Thilo Schmülgen/Reuters
Climate activists have broken into four German airport sites, briefly…
Plans for a huge solar farm in Cornwall have been refused over concerns about the visual impact it would have on the landscape.
Residents in Canworthy Water, near Launceston, argued building it on…
Farmers are counting the cost of the long, wet winter as they start to bring in record low harvests of grain.
The amount of wheat planted has fallen by nearly a tenth, and two thirds of British…
Donald Trump has promised to expand US oil and gas production if he wins a second term in office. Photograph: Matthew Brown/AP
Every US presidential election is consequential but American voters…
Illustration: Guardian Design
In a remarkably candid essay in the journal Nature this March, one of the world’s top climate scientists posited the alarming possibility that global heating may be…
After two years of fence-sitting, the US government has told campaigners that it will push for a new global treaty on plastic waste to limit the production of plastics rather than just encouraging…
A much-maligned global authority on corporate climate action has issued a new opinion on carbon credits, finding them “ineffective” and potentially harmful to mitigation goals, as it works on…
A meme that you once sent to a friend may be being stored indefinitely on a cloud server, using up energy. Photograph: Namco
When “I can has cheezburger?” became one of the first internet memes to…
Heat has become a major health threat to cities, with record numbers of deaths being recorded in urban areas around the world. Composite: Guardian Design/AP
Beneath the streets of Seville – the city…
Canada’s “record-shattering” wildfires last year produced nearly as much greenhouse gas emissions in one season as would be expected over a decade of fires in normal circumstances, data has shown.
Solar and wind energy in the European Union generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the first six months of 2024, prompting analysts to declare “a historic shift” in the region’s energy mix…
A petroleum refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Photograph: Rex Wholster/Alamy
The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes…
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Almost everything we buy exploits the environment and the people who depend on it to a greater or lesser extent. Almost everything we buy contributes to climate breakdown…
Drax was responsible for 11.5m tonnes of CO2 last year, or nearly 3% of the UK’s total carbon emissions. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
The Drax power station was responsible…
Donald Trump and Elon Musk both made discursive, often fact-free assertions about global heating, including that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property” and that there was no…
Causeymire windfarm in Caithness, Scotland. The Eastern Green Link cable will transmit electricity from Peterhead to the south to northern England. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
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