The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement
The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long campaign to push…
The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s…
Climate summit president makes clear UK net zero agenda is responsibility of all government colleagues
Tackling the climate crisis must be a whole government effort or risk the Cop26 climate summit…
Adam McKay’s end-of-the-world film is a ‘powerful’ depiction of society’s response to scientific warnings, campaigners say
Don’t Look Up, the latest celluloid offering from the writer-director Adam…
In the summer, we spoke to four experts about the record-breaking heatwave that scorched the western US and Canada. As the year ends they share their hopes and fears for the future
The American…
The US president has made at least five disaster tours in the past year as his administration has tried to pass sweeping climate policies, with mixed success
Cabinet papers 2001: Despite fierce battles between senior Coalition members, work had begun in 2001 on a national energy policy
John Howard still describes himself as “climate change agnostic” even…
Turning invasive plants into a force for good and powering healthcare with solar – here are three of the 2022 nominees
From a solar-powered crib that treats jaundiced babies to fibre made from…
‘Lost’ species were rediscovered, rewilding projects flourished and progress was made in climate talks
From the accelerating extinction of species worldwide to wildfires in Siberia and record-…
When Busted sang about having been to the year 3000 — where 'not much has changed, but they lived underwater' — who'd have suspected it might be prophetic?
A little-examined form of geoengineering takes what rocks normally do—lock up carbon—and spreads it through the oceans.
Canary IslandsBefore sunrise in a quiet village in Gran Canaria, an island…
Burning wood to create power is a ‘scandal’, 50 MPs warn the energy minister in a letter today.
The letter – which has cross-party support – marks a major shift in political opinion over the burning…
In 2021, extremely rare weather disasters became alarmingly common.
In Tennessee, cities were deluged with 17 inches of rain over two days. Dozens of people drowned in basement apartments and cars…
Conditional licence granted in 2016 at Aberpergwm has led to row between Whitehall and devolved administration
Plans for the expansion of an underground coalmine in Wales could be approved…
As the ice recedes from climate change, historical marvels and natural phenomena have come to light
The rapid melting of ice from glaciers and landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica has…