climate change

Report is the first comprehensive analysis of climate risk from a child’s perspective Close to a billion children live in one of the 33 countries most at risk of the impacts of the climate crisis,…

The hybrid electric plane uses batteries instead of a conventional engine, the makers argue this means it is quieter, cheaper and greener At first glance it did not look very different from the…

Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threat

The IPCC’s alarming report has Chinese environmentalists wondering how to push a government that brooks no criticism into taking more action. In the wake of the IPCC’s alarming warning last week…

The bill was first presented to parliament in 2008 and is aimed at removing legal and regulatory uncertainty that has held back industry growth Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law…

It's our last chance to transform the economy and prevent catastrophic climate damage. Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system,…

BP has announced that the clean hydrogen facility in Teesside (H2Teesside) will be completed by 2030. The proposed project in Teesside plans to produce up to 1GW of blue hydrogen, 20% of the UK’s…

Obama campaigned in climate poetry and then governed in fossil fuel prose. Joe Biden may well follow in his footsteps.

Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", according to the United Nations, which says tens of thousands of people are already suffering "catastrophic"…

A host of fish species arriving via the Suez canal look set to stay – with perilous consequences for ecosystems

Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince In San Francisco’s Sunset District, rows and rows of pastel-colored, two-storey…

The city is surrounded by flames. On the ground, there are tales of heroism – and fear for the future. Little had prepared any of us on the Athens-bound flight for the sight of the great fire-…

Our climate is in crisis, but authoritarians and technocrats don’t have the answers

Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action.

Frackers in America’s largest oil field are letting massive amounts of natural gas spill into the atmosphere. Scientists and activists are trying to find the leaks and get them plugged before they…

The less-infamous greenhouse gas is also a problem to be reckoned with. Climate experts are sounding the alarm on the role methane emissions play in global warming. Atmospheric concentrations of…

It was bound to happen. With temperatures rising year after year, largely as an effect of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, multiple parts of the globe have broken temperature records. Now, NOAA has…

This past weekend, researchers at the National Science Foundation's Summit Station observed rainfall at the peak of Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet for the first time on record — an event…

Federal officials, for the first time ever, declared a water shortage from the Colorado River on Monday — yet another bleak indicator of the magnitude of the drought across the West made worse by…

Scientists paint apocalyptic vision of soaring temperatures and catastrophic impacts on agriculture without signing of crucial Montreal Protocol On 16 May 1985, three scientists from the British…