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Experts and environmentalists say aquifer feeding Doñana national park, a Unesco heritage site, has been overexploited for tourism and to water fruit farms

The EU’s classification of wood fuels is accelerating the climate crisis. Next week, a key vote can change that

World is ‘in last minute of the 11th hour to save lives’, says aid chief, amid fears that crisis is worse than 2010 famine, when 250,000 died Two areas of Somalia are likely to enter a state of…

Swathes of rainforest have reached tipping point, research by scientists and Indigenous organisations concludes Environmental destruction in parts of the Amazon is so complete that swathes of the…

LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - African leaders called on Monday for their counterparts from richer, polluting nations to increase funding for projects to help them adapt to climate change.

If Cop27 fails to bring the major polluters to heel, the global south will be forced to act on its own

During the Gulf War in 1991, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was looking for a legal advisor on international humanitarian law. At the time, I was working as a lawyer in the…

Instead of home insulation and cheap renewables, ministers have given us fracking. This crisis is just the start of the pain

This ocean warming controls the rate of climate change, and the effects such as sea level rise are irreversible on human timescales

Countries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António Guterres The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive”…

By 2050, Africa’s 1bn children will bear the brunt of the climate crisis, yet they have no say in decisions largely made by old men

New king will have to eschew grand statements on climate crisis but his role does not stop him talking to the PM in private   In 1970, the young Prince of Wales made a speech warning of the dangers…

Those who don’t die from the floods risk death by starvation – yet you’ve probably heard little about the devastation

Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping…

Support amid huge industry profits is a ‘roadblock’ to tackling climate crisis, says International Energy Agency Global public subsidies for fossil fuels almost doubled to $700bn in 2021, analysis…

BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies spend $750m a year burnishing climate credentials but only 12% of capital on low-carbon development Big oil and gas companies are spending tens of…

99% of our world is exposed to polluted air causing an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year. Air pollution is an environmental risk to human health. It has detrimental impacts on climate…

Olaf Scholz says country has enough energy to get through winter after Russia cut gas supplies The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has rejected calls for his government to commit to a longer-term…

Newly-installed British Prime Minister Liz Truss appointed a reputed climate change denier to head her energy ministry and vowed to increase North Sea oil and gas drilling in the hours after she took…

Mark Jacobson and his team have published a renewable energy study in which they argue the payback time is just 6 years.