A Cop26 insider from a developing nation on why the richer world needs to meet its funding targets
One of the biggest issues at Cop26 is climate finance, the funding that is supposed to be provided…
Ambition set out in run-up to crucial COP26 summit in November
All electricity in the UK should be produced from clean sources by 2035, prime minister Boris Johnson has announced.
The site is the first woodland of its size to be planted in Glasgow in generations
More than a thousand schoolchildren have been invited to create a woodland ahead of the COP26 climate summit in…
Six of top 10, including China and Russia, yet to show ambition on emissions cuts before Cop26
Analysis of the total carbon dioxide emissions of countries since 1850 has revealed the nations with…
Global analysis of indoor and outdoor pollution also finds link to low birth weight.
Air pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight…
Data highlights urgent need for government action to introduce low-carbon heat pumps, researchers say
The millions of gas boilers in the UK’s homes produce twice as much climate-heating carbon…
The pivotal Democratic senator owns millions of dollars in coal stocks. Shouldn’t he recuse himself from US climate talks?
Joe Manchin has never been this famous. People around the world now know…
UK ‘would be seen as worst hypocrite imaginable’ if plans for deep mine are approved, say environmentalists.
Approving a new deep coalmine in Cumbria would stifle international efforts to…
A majority of voters in the Conservative party’s key 41 constituencies believe the UK should be a world leader on climate
Voters in Tory heartlands want the government to do more to tackle the…
Caring only about our emissions level in 29 years is a bit stupid. Any party worth its salt will stop putting things off and tell us what it’s doing right now.
As the whispers grow of the government…
The UN must urgently appoint a special rapporteur on climate change and human rights to galvanise action on the biggest threat to fundamental freedoms
Climate breakdown is making a mockery of human…
The ivory-billed woodpecker had its last definitive sighting in Louisiana in 1944.
The extinctions of 22 animals and one plant are to be announced on Wednesday by US federal wildlife officials.…
As many as 216 million people could be forced from their homes by the impacts of climate change in the next 30 years, a new report from the World Bank finds.
UN Climate Change News, 30 September 2021 – Africa Climate Week 2021 wrapped up this week with Virtual Thematic Sessions helping to set the scene for more ambitious regional action to tackle climate…
Greg Mullins says after the ‘black summer’ bushfires it is time for politicians to act on global heating.
The year 2019 was Australia’s hottest and driest on record. By 2040, those conditions –…
Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises.
A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin,…
Over 5,000 students will have the opportunity to learn about the carbon intensity involved in everyday activities, such as travel, energy use and food consumption.
University students at Bath will…
Wastewater from wealthier households showed higher levels of vitamins, citrus, and fiber while poorer communites had higher levels of prescription drugs.
There’s a lot you can learn from a person’s…