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…
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…
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…
Study reinforces the hard evidence that carbon emissions are the main cause of worsening extreme weather.
The record-shattering rainfall that caused deadly flooding across Germany and Belgium in…
Overlapping crises have pushed the fragile east African country to the ‘cusp of humanitarian catastrophe’, with one in four facing food insecurity.
Such was the horror that erupted in her village…
A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the…
Rainforest lost 10,476 sq km between August 2020 and July 2021, report says, despite increasing global concern
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, a …
Climate change has "almost complete[ly]" destabilized the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical aquatic "conveyor belt" that plays a major role in global temperature and…
Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather
Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of…
Agricultural runoff from farms and livestock operations creates oxygen-depleted areas inhospitable to animal and plant life
Scientists recently surveyed the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico around…
ATHENS, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Greek authorities ordered villages near the site of the ancient Olympic Games in the western Peloponnese to be evacuated on Wednesday as wildfires raged across the country,…
Spain and Portugal are bracing for temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in coming days, as a mass of hot, dry air from Africa pushes north into the Iberian peninsula.…
The money tied up in fossil fuels is everyone’s problem, writes Anna Isaac
There’s a £16 trillion problem that’s been keeping central bankers past and present up at night: “stranded assets”. It’s…
Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, today’s headlines were the predictions of fringe extremists.
And yet, they’ve come true.
Conversations about how to avoid what’s coming aren’t important any longer.…
The role that humans have played in driving the climate crisis is “unequivocal”. That is one of the key takeaways of a landmark report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
This is Why it Feels Like We Might Not Have a Future Anymore
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the world is on fire. That’s a symptom of a grim trend. We’re losing the battle for the future. Is…
It’s not happening fast enough and it’s happening too fast
We aren’t programmed to try to change the weather. Humans experience the euphemistic “climate change” disaster that is playing out before…
Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe
The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was…