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.…
The Paraguay River flowing through the Pantanal wetlands, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Dozens of scientists are sounding the alarm that carving a commercial…
Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant with a carbon capture and storage facility in Brevik, Norway. Photograph: Ajit Niranjan/The Guardian
Shining bright among the hulking grey towers and tangled, dust…
Hot weather inflamed by carbon pollution killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year, with the continent warming at a much faster rate than other parts of the world, research has found.
The…
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addresses national delegations during the COP28, UN Climate Change Conference, held by UNFCCC in Dubai Exhibition Center, United Arab…
Every 0.1°C of planetary warming increases the risk of reaching dangerous tipping points, says a new open-access article published in the journal Nature Communications. It illustrates why emissions…
Seizing on the chance to lower energy bills, support a local business, and help build the green economy, owners of a 1960s-era apartment building in Toronto are updating its balcony railings with…
Cities can cool down by ringing their boundaries with a thick belt of green space, ideally threaded through with lakes and rivers, says the latest research out of China.
Cooling trees and water—even…
Ontario’s newly-minted energy minister Stephen Lecce is coming under fire for recent musings about turning the province into a “clean energy superpower”, with analysts scorching his decision to…
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