With 2023 the warmest year on record, 2024 could see the unwelcome milestone of 1.5C of warming reached for a full year
The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest in recorded history, with…
Country emitted 73m fewer tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2023 than year before, study reveals
Germany’s emissions hit a 70-year low last year as Europe’s largest economy reduced its reliance on coal…
Researchers looked at 400 years of tree ring data and found ‘vapour pressure deficit’ has got much worse this century
We all know that on a hot day in dry air we feel cooler than at the same…
Mukhtar Babayev is named president-in-waiting of UN climate summit to be held in November
Cop29, the next round of UN talks to tackle the climate crisis, will be led by another veteran of the oil…
‘We need to move so much faster’ to battle climate crisis, warns the Rev Canon Nick Davies, as locals assess damage
Standing at the top of Tewkesbury Abbey tower, the Rev Canon Nick Davies is…
PM insists government is responding, as some residents are told to expect five more days of misery and colder weather
Large swathes of England ended the week devastated by flood water as rivers…
Ministers have previously claimed oilfield development will improve domestic energy security and help consumers
The UK government has admitted that oil from the controversial Rosebank field will be…
Such a warm year would have occurred once in 500 years without global heating, Met Office scientists say
The UK had its second-hottest year on record in 2023, according to provisional data from the…
Annual energy bills for a typical household are expected to fall by £268 in April, a new forecast suggests.
Consultancy firm Cornwall Insight says bills could drop to £1,660 under the official price…
Jobs in Scotland's renewables sector grew by more than 50% in 2021, according to research.
A study by the Fraser of Allander Institute says the industry supported 42,000 jobs compared with 27,000…
A new recycling charge for large household appliances will be introduced from January.
The States Of Guernsey said it would apply to TVs, fridges and other such items to reflect the cost of…
Conservationists are using GPS collars in a bid to protect the world's most endangered zebra.
The experts from Marwell Wildlife, in Winchester, Hampshire, will use the technology to monitor 20 Grevy…
Major floods have inundated parts of northern Queensland - with the heavy rain thwarting attempts to evacuate a settlement hit by rising water.
Extreme weather driven by tropical cyclone Jasper has…
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There are two distinctive types of electric buses making their way along Nanjing Xi Lu, one of Shanghai's busiest roads.
The first is a fleet of blue trolleybuses that serve bus route number 20,…
In a lab in Manchester, volunteers are donning masks to breathe in lungfuls of polluted air.
They're being exposed to different kinds of fumes, from diesel to cleaning products, in a bid to…
t's a crisp winter morning in the Finnish coastal city of Oulu, the fourth most northerly city in the world, just 100km (60 miles) south of the Arctic Circle. Last night there was a snowstorm and…
The founder of an electric truck start-up that was popular in the US has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Trevor Milton, who led Nikola Corporation, was convicted of fraud last year after a…
Rainbow-coloured clouds have been spotted across the East of England for the first time in seven years, a meteorologist said.
BBC Look East weather presenter Dan Holley said the nacreous clouds were…
A zoo's beloved koala that was imported from Japan has died.
Burke, a Southern koala, joined Longleat's safari in Wiltshire in 2019 from Osaka Tennoji Zoo as part of a breeding programme to protect…