Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges
by Jocelyn Timperley
For climate campaigners, 26 May seemed like 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…
Prime minister says request made for help internationally as forest blazes erupt in Kabyle region and elsewhere
More than 40 people, including 25 soldiers, have died in wildfires that erupted east…
Thinktank InfluenceMap accuses petroleum giants of gaming Facebook to promote oil and gas as part of climate-crisis solution.
Facebook failed to enforce its own rules to curb an oil and gas industry…
It’s not happening fast enough and it’s happening too fast
We aren’t programmed to try to change the weather. Humans experience the euphemistic “climate change” disaster that is playing out before…
Online behemoth Facebook turned its back in its own commitments to climate action and truth in advertising by allowing 25 fossil industry organizations in the United States to mount a $9.5-million…
In a new landmark report, the IPCC has found that human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe.
The report, prepared by 234…
It is the storied sea traversed by Odysseus and the Vikings, a body of water that has been the wellspring of civilisations, culture and commerce as well as countless myths and legends. It is the…
Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe
The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was…
Described as “a code red for humanity”, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that major changes due to global heating are inevitable and irreversible with…
Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”, climate scientists…
Earth could exceed 1.5°C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement – as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark report by the world’s most…
Of all the troubling news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report out on Monday, one warning will surely generate the most headlines: under all scenarios examined, Earth is…
They say money makes the world go round. With COP26 on the horizon, that well-known saying has added currency. But how will the UK’s financial sector be playing its part? Gina V Hall, the Carbon…
With more people worrying about the environmental ethics of bringing more children into the world, Kate Ng examines the arguments on either side
The decision whether or not to have children, if we…
One of the chief arguments against transitioning away from fossil fuels and towards a zero-carbon economy is that it would cost the world energy jobs. But is such a fear really justified?
To find…
As the climate continues to warm, significant ice loss in the Russian Arctic will have clear impacts for sea level rise’.
Glaciers and ice caps in parts of the Russian Arctic are losing meltwater…
This week marked the cut-off date for the submission of new or updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to be included in a UNFCCC synthesis report that will be issued later this year,…
This story includes details about the impacts of climate change that may be difficult for some readers. If you are feeling overwhelmed by this crisis situation here is a list of resources on how to…
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