Less than 10% of the world’s population take a plane in any one year. Photograph: Gary Stedman/Alamy
At this peak holiday season the contrails crisscross the skies, and greenhouse gas emissions…
China added as much new clean energy generation in the first half of this year as the UK produced from all sources in the same period last year, data shows, as wind and solar power generation…
Solly the sheep, who died at a Mallorcan animal sanctuary after contracting a mosquito-borne disease. Photograph: Ana Palacios
Solly the sheep had not had an easy start to life, but his prospects…
A giraffe in Nairobi national park, where Kenya’s expanding capital is fragmenting and degrading wildlife habitats. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
Over the next 50 years, people will push further…
‘We are moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world, one of multiple, competing centres of power.’ A Cop29 sign in Azerbaijan. Photograph: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images
Susana Muhamad is Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the biodiversity Cop16 conference in Cali. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
Humanity risks catastrophic global…
How has the Ukraine war affected efforts to tackle climate change?
First and foremost, the war in Ukraine has been a humanitarian disaster. But it has also had implications for the climate.
Mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) off the Catalan coast. Tarragona beaches were closed in July after highly venomous Portuguese man o’ war were seen. Photograph: Seaphotoart/Alamy
Costa…
Workers sorting electronic waste at a factory in India. Photograph: Elke Scholiers/Getty Images
Scientists have formed an unusual new alliance in their fight against climate change. They are using…
An elderly woman protects herself from the sun in Toulon, France, on 27 July 2024. Photograph: Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images
The dangers of extreme heat can be amplified by social…
Fixed and floating: a swimmer relaxes within sight of a conventional offshore wind installation off Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Head 10 miles out from the coast of…
The outcome of an international court case on climate change obligations could strengthen the legal position of Caribbean islands claiming damages from developed countries after natural disasters,…
Debt for Climate activists block an entrance to the German finance ministry during the 2022 G7 summit in Berlin. Photograph: Christian Mang/Reuters
Reducing the debt payments made by poor countries…
Sea-surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980. Photograph: Christopher Malili/The Guardian
Pacific island nations are in “grave…
The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said, in the context of the civil rights movement in the US, “I have no time for the tranquillising drug of gradualism”. He was a radical, not just in the…
Australia’s coal and gas exports cause more climate damage than those from any other country bar Russia, according to a new study that argues the country is undermining a global agreement to…
Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally.
The Mediterranean is a landscape that's always been shaped by fire. But now climate change is supercharging heatwaves and wildfires, the region is at risk of long-term change to its ecosystems.
For centuries, peatlands have had a bad reputation. Possessing neither the majesty of the mountains nor the pastoral beauty of a meadow, they have been tarred as dangerous, ugly and useless.…
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