Iraq is one of the most climate-vulnerable places on Earth. In Baghdad, traffic police sergeant Sa’d Saddam Abdulhasan is responsible for one of the city’s busiest junctions. He keeps the city moving…
As many as 216 million people could be forced from their homes by the impacts of climate change in the next 30 years, a new report from the World Bank finds.
Committing to net zero is not enough – the emissions reduction pathway is critical.
Carbon Tracker’s fifth annual analysis of the risk of investing in oil and gas producers – warns investors that…
England and Wales have seen increasingly warm weather this week.
While the sweltering temperatures of up to 29C this week have been an opportunity to enjoy the last gasp of summer, the heat feels…
Violence and aggression increase as temperatures rise, according to new studies
If you find yourself more irritable as summer temperatures soar, there’s a reason for that: New research reveals that…
Many European countries reported their highest annual average temperatures last year
Europe experienced its hottest year on record by a wide margin last year, data shows.
Temperatures across the…
Personalising the ‘silent killer’ hot spells could raise awareness in time to avert loss of life and property, say scientists
Spurred on by this summer’s record temperatures, Greek scientists have…
Scientists say there’s something different this year as the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather
As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are…
Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the…
This is Why it Feels Like We Might Not Have a Future Anymore
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the world is on fire. That’s a symptom of a grim trend. We’re losing the battle for the future. Is…
More than 40 fires are burning across Greece, write Marina Rigou in Athens and Nikolia Apostolou in Kalamata
Thousands of people have been evacuated from Varibobi, a northeastern suburb of Athens,…
Response of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party seen by many as out of touch as blazes rage for seventh day
People across Turkey are looking for answers as to how summer wildfires got so desperately…
Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would be hot for Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent smoke across North…
Last year was first to be in top 10 for heat, rain and sunshine, as scientists say UK’s mild climate is at an end
Extremes of weather will strike the UK more frequently owing to the climate crisis,…
Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and rising higher
North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks…
Rising temperatures may be hitting faster and harder than forecast, say climate scientists in wake of heatwave in US and Canada
The world needs to step up preparations for extreme heat, which may be…
Governor Kate Brown fears heatwave is ‘harbinger of things to come’ in climate crisis
The record-breaking heatwave that gripped the northwestern US and Canada has claimed more than 100 lives in the…
Met Office warning over impact of global heating prompts calls for action to protect elderly and vulnerable.
Britain is failing to protect its vulnerable citizens from the threat of intensifying…
The world's largest desert rarely sees snow like this.
On Tuesday (Jan. 19), one of the world's driest places awoke to an otherworldly dusting of frost.
In the Sahara Desert of northwestern Algeria…