Communities ‘are being killed as they seek to uphold their environmental, human and spiritual rights’, one defender tells The Independent
Frontline defenders of the land and natural world in Latin…
More people died of cold than heat in past 20 years but climate change is shifting the balance.
More than 5 million people die each year globally because of excessively hot or cold conditions, a 20-…
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…
While ExxonMobil's decades of sowing public doubt about climate science and the impact of fossil fuels have provoked various lawsuits, secretly recorded videos released Wednesday expose how the…
Kevo in Lapland recorded a temperature of 33.6C after Finland registered record heat in June.
Nordic countries have registered near-record temperatures over the weekend, including highs of 34C (93.…
Amazon.com Inc. said its carbon emissions rose in 2020 due to pandemic-fueled business growth, highlighting the challenge of balancing a fast-growing business with pledges to minimize environmental…
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 …
Average temperatures for the month were 2C higher than normal, with 24 separate locations hitting their own records
New Zealand has experienced its hottest June since records began more than 110…
‘Toothless’ policy and lack of expertise among long list of failures identified in existing efforts to reverse catastrophic impacts on natural world
A damning report by MPs has described government…
Politicians are ‘role-playing’ and ‘pretending to wage war against fossil fuels’, activist says
Greta Thunberg has torn into global leaders’ response to the worsening climate crisis, accusing them…
A new World Bank report has estimated that the collapse of select ecosystem services provided by nature could result in a decline in global GDP of $2.7 trillion annually by 2030.
UN Climate Change News, 6 July 2021 – The Virtual Thematic Sessions of Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2021 (APCW 2021) kicked off today. APCW 2021 will be held from 6 to 9 July and is hosted by the…
Another day, another cascade of high temperature records broken across the Pacific Northwest as a heat wave unlike any in recent memory continued into a third day.
In Washington, Oregon, and British…
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…
Portland, Oregon, reached 46.7C (116F) on Monday, a region which normally sees highs of around 26C (78.8F) this time of year
The deadly “once-in-a-millennium” heatwave bearing down on parts of North…
The unrelenting heat wave that shattered temperature records across the U.S. Pacific Northwest on Monday and threatens to smother the region for another six straight days has begun to trigger rolling…
Like humans, trees need water to survive on hot, dry days, and they can survive for only short times under extreme heat and dry conditions.
During prolonged droughts and extreme heat waves like the…
In its latest environmental commitment, New Zealand has announced a ban on the majority of single-use plastics by 2025.
The new measure builds on the country's 2019 decision to phase-out plastic…
There is now so much ocean plastic that it has become a route for invasive species, threatening native animals with extinction
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