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
Great…
Allen Myers grew up in Paradise, California, which for him is “sacred land”. At age 11, he sat beside his mother’s bedside as she passed away in his beloved family home. Years later, that house,…
A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say.
Experts suspect Thame - which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m - was flooded after a glacial lake…
The fuel efficiency of nine of 15 vehicles tested by AAA was worse than their advertised lab results. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Australians are buying cars that consume more petrol than the fuel…
Snowfall at Times Square, New York, in February. Buildings could draw heat from water pumped from below their foundations, instead of burning natural gas.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Along with…
A Shell refinery in the Netherlands on 11 February 2024. Photograph: Peter Boer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of…
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