Approximately 52 million square kilometers of the earth surface is made by arid zones, defined as areas where the total amount of rainfall is balanced by evaporation from the surface and natural…
The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health.
The average daily global sea surface…
Industry figures warn climate crisis goals cannot be met unless government pumps more money into renewables
Britain faces being left with no hope of meeting its crucial climate crisis goals and…
Country’s health and economy ruined as Islamic charity says rich nations must compensate those suffering worst of climate crisis
A year after Pakistan’s worst floods in living memory, a report by…
Order was issued against the city of Sacramento after advocates called out the municipality for violating its own order
Amid a heatwave that is sweeping through parts of the American west, a federal…
Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide
Why is meaningful action to avert the climate…
Fuels produced with raw materials... water and carbon dioxide will be used by internal combustion engine cars in the EU from 2035, as part of the EU's anti-pollution policy agreed last week at the…
This week, delegates arriving in Belém's international airport are being welcomed with a lively "Boi de mascara" folkloric dance routine. In fact, the whole city is celebrating being in the spotlight…
Human-caused climate disruption and El Niño push temperature in mountains to 37C
Exceptional winter heat in the Andean mountains of South America has surged to 37C, prompting local scientists to…
Communist party secretary for Hebei made comments after visiting flood-hit areas earlier this week
Chinese social media users have reacted angrily to comments from a local Communist party official…
Climate activist pulls out of event, saying sponsor Baillie Gifford invests heavily in fossil fuel industry
The climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of an appearance at the Edinburgh book…
It is hot. Very hot. And temperatures show no signs of easing.
Nearly a third of Americans - over 113 million people - are under some form of heat advisory, the US National Weather Service said.…
Some would call it shameful. The reckless abandoning of the UK’s net zero commitments. The torching of environmental policies. All at a time when larger areas of southern Europe were suffering…
I had a premonition that Rishi Sunak was about to do something deeply ungreen. I didn’t know exactly what, and definitely couldn’t have named which oil and gas licences he wanted to issue, but I knew…
Phoenix’s record stretch of daily highs over 110F (43.3C) ended Monday as cooling monsoon rains slightly tempered the dangerous heatwave that suffocated the American south-west throughout July.
The…
For decades holidaymakers have poured into resorts and islands in southern Europe for a relaxing break in the summer sun.
But the scenes of tourists fleeing wildfires in Greece, or trapped indoors…
Like many other politicians, Joe Biden talks a good game about the need to tackle global heating. Climate change is an “existential threat”, the US president said last week, as America sizzled amid…
By announcing hundreds of new oil and gas licences, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has become a “dangerous radical” pursuing “moral and economic madness”.