Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash. Until humanity admits it has failed to tackle the climate crisis and begins…
Research also found lower levels of difficult behaviour in rich and poor neighbourhoods.
Growing up in a greener urban environment boosts children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult…
Climate-driven loss is likely to be the worst for centuries, and is pushing up sea levels
The Greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of ice in 2019, equivalent to a million tonnes per minute…
Drop in emissions was a blip, say scientists, and a green recovery is vital to halt global heating.
The draconian coronavirus lockdowns across the world have led to sharp drops in carbon emissions,…
Extreme heat, less frost and snow, and trees coming into leaf earlier among signs in 2019 .
More extreme heat, less frost and snow, and trees coming into leaf earlier are among the signs seen in…
The installation of new gas boilers must be banned from 2025 or the UK’s net-zero climate target will be “doomed”, according to a high-level commission convened by the CBI.
The ban would apply to…
The first active leak of methane from the sea floor in Antarctica has been revealed by scientists.
The researchers also found microbes that normally consume the potent greenhouse gas before it…
The glory of the world’s oceans could be restored within a generation, according to a major new scientific review. It reports rebounding sea life, from humpback whales off Australia to elephant seals…
The research, used to help avoid a ban, claimed ‘severe impacts’ on farming if glyphosate was outlawed.
Monsanto secretly funded academic studies indicating “very severe impacts” on farming and the…
Experts call for solutions to be enforced immediately to halt global population collapses
The “fates of humans and insects are intertwined”, scientists have said, with the huge declines reported in…
Oceans are clearest measure of climate crisis as they absorb 90% of heat trapped by greenhouse gases.
The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and…
Warning of ‘existential threat to civilisation’ as impacts lead to cascade of unstoppable events.
The world may already have crossed a series of climate tipping points, according to a stark warning…
The climate crisis will determine the lifelong health of today’s children, doctors have warned, noting that global heating was already causing harm.
Children are especially vulnerable and the global…
Nobel peace prize winner calls for organisations to cut ties with industry and for investors to dump fossil fuel stocks.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for an anti-apartheid-style boycott and…
Not long before coal use is over, say analysts, while warning of possible resurgence in China.
The number of coal-fired power plants being developed around the world has collapsed in the last three…
Activist Greta Thunberg, 16, says action proved ‘no one is too small to make a difference’.
More than 1.4 million young people around the world took part in school strikes for climate action,…