Climate

The NZSC considers 48 indicators for each of the 50 cities. These have been split between a city’s enabling environment for decarbonization, a city’s past decarbonization performance, sector specific policies…

Picture the ocean slowly boiling. Not all at once, but in long, unrelenting stretches of heat that last days, months, sometimes well over a year. That’s what has been happening…

Weakening the UK’s net zero policy would disrupt business and damage the economy, the UK’s chief climate adviser has warned. Nigel Topping, chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said:…

Summer has begun—which is to say, wildfires in the West are chasing residents from their homes, the snowpack has dwindled to near-record lows in several states, drought is spreading, and…

In an age of division, director Josh Fox is hoping to bring people of all kinds together. Specifically, he wants them to share a table – to break bread for…

Schools closed and railways advised against travel as Britain, France, Italy and Spain issued red alerts and health warnings for much of their territory in the record-breaking heat. France sweated…

Mexico, Kenya, Italy and other nations around the world are experiencing one to two more months of heat stress than they were several decades ago, and some areas even more…

This round-up contains the key nature and climate news from the past month. Top news: Children ‘disproportionately affected’ by climate hazards – UNICEF; Poll reveals level of US public concern…

Something odd and disturbing has happened on the issue of climate change in the last few years. Even as the crisis has gotten worse, and the need to address it…

New research has mapped more than 64,000 square miles where the crucial habitat seems to be somewhat protected from the impacts of the warming ocean Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent…

by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections June 22, 2026 Europe’s worst heat tends to strike in July and August, but this week a startlingly early and intense heat wave is…

Hurricanes are changing in a warming climate, with stronger winds, heavier rainfall, and higher storm surge making today’s storms more destructive than those of the past. As sea surface temperatures…

Stakeholders forum in Nairobi calls for increased financing efforts to bridge gap.[Standard] Africa faces an annual climate finance gap of $125 billion (Sh16.18 trillion), highlighting the urgent need to channel…

When The Mercury publishes commentary from Jerry Shenk, readers almost always must traverse a wide sewer of derision and mockery, wrapped in his smug self-confident assertions, before the discovery of…

Ask where climate change is hitting wildlife hardest, and most people point to the tropics – rainforests, coral reefs, and species adapted to a narrow range of temperatures. For a…

A study published in Nature suggests that thawing permafrost may have an unexpected effect on the carbon cycle. While melting frozen ground is widely known for releasing greenhouse gases, researchers…

Taipei, June 21 (CNA) Although climate change could reduce overall PM2.5 pollution in Taiwan, the benefits are likely to be unevenly distributed, according to a new study analyzing more than…

The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, spanning more than 2 million square miles (5.2 million square kilometers) — an area 12 times the size of California. It…

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with author Kevin Trenberth. El Niño is a phenomenon every few years in…

The truth is our world is rapidly warming. The average global temperature has risen over 2.14 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ….

This weekly round-up brings you key climate news from the past seven days, including promising news for coral reefs and what we can expect from El Niño. — Listen…

Global warming is accelerating, extreme heat is already endangering lives in India, and Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism is failing to deliver meaningful emissions cuts from the country’s biggest industrial polluters. Global…

Thousands of lines carved into Canada’s boreal peatlands for oil and gas exploration could be speeding up climate change, suggests a new study from University of Waterloo researchers. Known as…

Spanning venues in three countries, and welcoming a record number of teams, this year’s World Cup will carry a massive carbon footprint – and see players exposed to potentially dangerous heat….

The mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Germany, that ended this week failed to make much headway on any contentious issue, but did throw up one interesting proposal. Turkey, which will…

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Something was conspicuously missing from California’s primary this month. In the state that built its political identity around fighting climate change, the issue barely registered. Voters fixated on affordability and…

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 77/327, designates 26th January, as the International Day on Clean Energy. The desire of many countries to transition to clean, sustainable and renewable…

The Trump administration is under fire over its efforts to have any mention of the climate crisis removed from a scientific report, published this week, aimed at informing nations that…