The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in 2021, stated that South Asia will face intensified monsoon seasons, heatwaves and changing snowmelt…
Ayear ago, in the final declaration from COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, the global climate community finally started to address the fact that climate change impacts society primarily through the water…
Stare at a climate map of the world that we expect to inhabit 50 years from now and you see a band of extreme heat encircling the planet’s midriff. Climate modelling from 2020 suggests that within …
We finally have a government – but at what cost? I have previously said that New Zealanders did not vote for a lurch to the right. The difference in the seats tell us that story – 59 v 55 on the left…
Faced with the now undeniable impacts of climate crisis created by humans, political leaders in wealthier countries incline towards one of two competing responses. They either question the urgency…
Emissions from the motor sector could have fallen by more than 30% between 2010 and 2022 if vehicles had stayed the same size, a report has found.
Instead, the size of the average car ballooned as…
The medicinal leech is one of nature’s least loved hunters. Armed with three strong interlocking jaws and with a taste for blood, they will swim hungrily towards humans, deer or cattle that wander…
Raw sewage has been discharged into Chichester harbour for more than 1,200 hours in the past month, in what campaigners described as “an assault on the environment”.
The protected harbour in West…
The crickets that chirp in the meadows are newcomers, as are the elegant wasp spiders and the colourful Jersey tiger moths.
A city farm in the Georgian city of Bath is the latest conservation…
The federal US government has paused the importation of millions of pounds of toxic PFAS “forever chemical” waste from the Netherlands following intense backlash from residents near a North Carolina …
Alice Hughes found the strange reptile in March. It was hanging by its long, slender fingers from the limestone wall of a cave in northern Thailand: a grey-brown gecko she believes belongs to a…
The ford is a problem. We shuffle across the Rhenass River, water an inch from the top of our wellies. Somehow free from squelchy socks, I ponder when somebody last walked this lane. This is one of…
Who are the polluter elite and why do they matter?
The richest 1% of people are responsible for as much carbon output as the poorest 66%, research from Oxfam shows. Luxury lifestyles including…
Concerns ahead of Cop28 climate summit that Rishi Sunak among leaders backsliding on green measures
The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, will be seeking assurances from the UK that there will…
Exposure to several widely used insecticides probably decreases sperm concentration and may have profound effects on male fertility, new US research finds.
The George Mason University paper analyzed…
Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more than double last decade’s annual average
Just above this column on the weather page of the Guardian’s print edition is the daily…
Study finds impact of heat on millions of people went unrecorded, highlighting limitations many African countries face
A record-breaking heatwave in Madagascar in October would have been “virtually…
Head of International Energy Agency says the industry faces a ‘moment of truth’ as Cop28 talks approach
Fossil fuel companies are investing twice as much in oil and gas as they should if the world…
Exclusive: Liberal and National parties agree to more ambitious interim target joining Greens who have criticised Labor for ‘abandoning’ 2035 goal
New South Wales Labor is being pushed to legislate …
Environment department questions feasibility of Waratah Coal’s claims about the use of carbon offsets, credits, and capture and storage
Queensland authorities have blocked Clive Palmer’s plans to…
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