‘Endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded

Asia is experiencing weeks of “endless record heat”, with sweltering temperatures causing school closures and surges in energy use.

I back saboteurs who have acted with courage and coherence, but I won’t blow up a pipeline. Here’s why

There’s a fundamental principle that should apply to every conflict. Don’t urge others to do what you are not prepared to do yourself. How many wars would be fought if the presidents or prime ministers who declared them were obliged to lead their troops into battle?

Biden is still not doing nearly enough about the climate crisis

Just before announcing that he would again run for president, Joe Biden signed off on what on the surface looks like a great move to help address the climate crisis: an execut

How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution: The Dark Side of Renewable Energy

Bioenergy is often seen as a more environmentally-friendly alternative to other forms of energy generation. But the truth is that it can actually be quite harmful to the environment. Bioenergy has a dark side: It contributes to air pollution.

Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing

On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell in 2022 by 850,000 people from 2021, which was the first population decline witnessed by the country in six decades.

Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition

We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution

There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past 4 million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes combinations with other Homo species, spread unevenly across today’s populations—not a neat and linear evolutionary progression.

The World’s Coffee Shops Have Emerged as Plant Milk’s Front Line

While plant-based milk has been around for centuries, the market is undergoing a modern-day surge.

How Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Several Hollywood action films center around an impending apocalypse in the form of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth—a glaring metaphor for the real-world implications of a rapidly accelerating climate crisis.

Climate change: Spain breaks record temperature for April

Spain recorded its hottest ever temperature for April on Thursday, hitting 38.8C according to the country's meteorological service. The record figure was reached in Cordoba airport in southern Spain just after 15:00 local time (14:00 BST).

French oil giant TotalEnergies sues Greenpeace over emissions report

The French oil major TotalEnergies has sued the environmental group Greenpeace France and the climate consulting firm Factor-X over a report claiming that the company massively underestimated its 2019 greenhouse gas emissions, Total said on Wednesday.

Air pollution: how bad is particulate matter for your health?

Many types of air pollutants are harmful to human health. These include gases – such as carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides and sulphur dioxide – and particulates.

Human-driven climate crisis fuelling Horn of Africa drought – study

The devastating drought in the Horn of Africa would not have happened without the human-made impact of the climate crisis, new scienc

Yes, the climate crisis is raising your grocery bills

Families around the world are struggling with higher grocery costs and electricity and heating bills. What they may not realize is that rising inflation is increasingly driven by another global crisis: climate change.

A leading private equity firm claimed to be a climate leader – while increasing emissions

 A leading private equity firm that claims to be an industry climate leader in fact almost doubled its average annual greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel investments over the past decade, according to new research.

UK investment in clean energy transition falls 10%, bucking global trend

Investment in clean energy and the low-carbon economy fell sharply in the UK last year, even as rival nations were increasing their firepower in the global green race, data shows.

Life in ocean’s twilight zone ‘could disappear’ amid warming seas

Life in the ocean’s twilight zone is expected to face dramatic declines and even extinction as seas warm and less food reaches the dimly lit waters, a study has found.

German police union boss calls for crackdown on growing climate protests

Police representatives, members of the judiciary and politicians in Germany are calling for harsher penalties for climate activists, including preventive detention and longer pri

North Sea countries aim for 300 GW of offshore wind energy by 2050

Nine European countries signed the Ostend Declaration on Monday (24 April), aiming to jointly produce at least 120 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 and at least 300 gigawatts by 2050 in the North Sea.

Drought prompts French ban on garden swimming pools

Garden swimming pools are to be banned from sale in a part of southern France over worsening water shortages.