From supercharging extreme weather events to boosting the spread of infectious diseases, climate change is already having a huge impact on human health across the world.
In the southern desert of Dubai in the UAE, a new wonder is rising but it’s not another skyscraper as the region is famed for, instead, a coal-fired power plant is underway. The construction of the $…
With less than a week until Election Day, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is looking to bolster turnout among young people concerned about climate change. And it’s doing so with a new ad running…
The United States is the world’s second-largest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gasses and the presidential election next week will have a big impact on the extent to which those emissions are…
Before the scheme, only 24 per cent of wildlife crime prosecutions in Kenya ended in conviction, writes Abbianca Makoni.
Global legal experts including from Britain experienced in sharpening laws…
Millions of highly polluting used cars from rich countries are being "dumped" on developing nations, according to a UN report.
Between 2015 and 2018, some 14 million older, poor quality vehicles…
David Nowell thinks Extinction Rebellion should focus on insulating homes, running public transport cooperatives and campaigning for major economic reforms, while Iain Climie says late Arctic ice…
In the final presidential debate Thursday night, Vice President Joe Biden called climate change an "existential threat to humanity" that we have a moral obligation to address. Whoever leads the…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is clear: in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world must dramatically reduce its carbon emissions and prevent global…
30x30 goal ‘critical’ in preventing species loss and climate breakdown ‘spinning out of control’
Last month, political leaders from 64 countries around the world all pledged to “reverse biodiversity…
The excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activity since the start of the industrial revolution has already raised the Earth's temperature by more than one degree Celsius, increased the risk of …
Parliamentary elections will be held in New Zealand tomorrow (October 17), with the Labour-led government headed by Jacinda Ardern, popular on the back of its widely-admired response to Covid-19,…
We need to discuss how communities and workers in the coal sector will cope with China’s push for self-sufficiency.
Australian politicians have been selling the “dream” of coal for years, but it’s a…
If all major nations developed strong plans for a green recovery from Covid-19, global annual emissions would be 7% lower in 2030 than in 2019 and millions of new jobs would be created in sectors…
Australia is transitioning to a clean energy economy, but it should not get distracted by the efforts of the incumbent fossil fuel industry to delay its ‘inevitable’ demise, a panel of energy…
Some of the solutions sound fantastical – but their proponents argue that there are precious few other options.
Time is running out for the Arctic. The region continues to warm at two or three times…
“HOW DARE YOU!
You sit there talking about economic growth when we are on the verge of mass extinction! I should be back in school across the ocean in Sweden playing with my “Adorable Adolf” doll.…
deas of changing how we shop, eat and measure national success are catching on in Australia and elsewhere – inspired by one influential woman, writes Damien Cave
Helena Norberg-Hodge strolled into…