‘I stayed up all night watching the town burn down. It was so scary,’ says one Lytton resident.
Nine foot high flames were lapping at Pierre Quevillon’s Lytton home when he bundled his two dogs into…
Survey in 16 countries finds just over half of consumers believe their own behaviour can help
A small majority of people believe there is still time to make a difference and slow global heating, a…
Officials warn a ‘prolonged, dangerous, and historic heatwave’ will persist through the week.
Canada has recorded its highest temperatures on record as the country’s west, along with the US Pacific …
Iraq’s electricity minister has resigned as protests erupt in Basra over the crippling shortages.
Provinces across Iraq’s south have halted work amid scorching temperatures and rolling blackouts…
Extreme weather events are popping up all over the world—from heat waves to tropical storms, droughts, and tornadoes—and climate change is a unifying factor.
Extreme temperatures in China coupled…
Experts say it is now endemic to US states like Texas and Oklahoma.
Experts have warned that climate crisis and land-use changes could be creating a conducive environment for flesh-eating leishmania…
Anti-poverty groups, climate campaigners, and public health experts reacted with outrage and howls of disappointment Sunday after the G7 leaders who spent the weekend at a summit in Cornwall, England…
Small islands sit on the front line against climate change. Remote, low-lying, and with limited natural resources, they’re among the most vulnerable to rising sea levels, declining rainfall, and…
Scientists from agency and Noaa say Earth’s ‘energy imbalance’ roughly doubled from 2005 to 2019 in ‘alarming’ way
The Earth is trapping nearly twice as much heat as it did in 2005, according to new…
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects.
Ice sheets and ocean currents at risk of climate tipping points can destabilise each other…
There is more than a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature in at least one of the next five years will temporarily reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
And these odds are…
When the Guardian began reporting on the climate crisis 70 years ago, people were worried that warmer temperatures would make it harder to complain about the weather. Today it is the biggest…
Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought extra chaos on the climate, according to a report published…
The Trump administration delayed the report, which cites urban heat waves and permafrost loss as signs of global warming, for three years
For years, President Donald Trump and his deputies played…
Exclusive: Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future
Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will…
In the runup to Cop26, public knowledge about the crisis is shallow, with few understanding the scale of the threat.
One of the key lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that strong policies require…
Global asset managers, tired of dealing with multiple regimes for disclosing climate and environment-related risks, say governments need to establish a uniform, yet simple, metric for reporting that…
The world is currently on track for around a three degree temperature rise by the end of the century (Photo: United Nations Photo)
Leaders of the world's biggest economies joined US president Joe…