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17 08 2023 | 20:15

Africa is increasingly drier: Economic research estimates reduction in income due to desertification

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…

17 08 2023 | 20:05

‘The extreme events scare me the most’: climatologist warns of Italy’s vulnerability to climate crisis

Luca Mercalli describes Italy as ‘one of the most fragile places in the world’ after recent storms, wildfires and glacier collapse.  

17 08 2023 | 19:57

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet

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…

17 08 2023 | 19:37

UK offshore wind at ‘tipping point’ as funding crisis threatens industry

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…

17 08 2023 | 19:32

A year on, the devastating long-term effects of Pakistan’s floods are revealed

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…

17 08 2023 | 19:18

California judge pauses sweeping of homeless encampments amid heatwave

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…

17 08 2023 | 18:19

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

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…

17 08 2023 | 18:14

Cars will use water and carbon dioxide from 2035

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…

17 08 2023 | 15:31

Climate crisis: Samoa's prime minister calls on the world to save Pacific peoples from extinction

"There are already examples in the Pacific of whole communities, relocated to different countries"  

17 08 2023 | 11:54

Carbon credits - land grab or the Amazon’s future?

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…

17 08 2023 | 11:18

Winter heatwave in Andes is sign of things to come, scientists warn

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…

17 08 2023 | 10:20

Anger in China over plan to use cities as ‘moat’ to save Beijing from floods

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…

17 08 2023 | 10:06

Greta Thunberg accuses Edinburgh book festival sponsor of ‘greenwashing’

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…

16 08 2023 | 14:51

Excessive heat: Why this summer has been so hot

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.…

16 08 2023 | 14:48

Rish! gaslights the UK with North Sea plan while the world burns

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…

16 08 2023 | 14:46

Rishi Sunak’s contempt for the climate shows us just how rightwing he really is

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…

16 08 2023 | 14:46

Phoenix’s record streak of temperatures above 110F ends after 31 days

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…

16 08 2023 | 14:45

Europe weather: How heatwaves could for ever change summer holidays abroad

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…

16 08 2023 | 14:44

We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet

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…

16 08 2023 | 14:43

Sunak’s new oil and gas licences are ‘moral and economic madness’

By announcing hundreds of new oil and gas licences, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has become a “dangerous radical” pursuing “moral and economic madness”.