Climate

The Amazon, often called the “lungs of the world,” is edging dangerously close to a point of no return. New research warns that if deforestation continues, large swathes of the…

The past three years have been the world’s hottest on record by far, with 2025 almost tied with 2023 for second place. With that energy came extreme weather, from flash…

When Stalin wanted to get rid of someone, he didn’t just have them executed with a shot to the back of the head. He attempted to remove the offending person…

Urgent, decisive action is needed on how communities will pay for the costs of adapting to climate change, a major new report says. Climate-driven severe weather events were already causing…

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly…

A new long-term analysis of ocean data suggests that deep, warm waters in the Southern Ocean are shifting closer to Antarctica, a change that could quietly undermine the stability of…

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Pacific Ocean is a giant climate cauldron, with a…

Newswise — Ancient lake sediments on Kangaroo Island show that during a period when humans did not inhabit the island, since about 5,000 years ago, a drying climate and lack…

Microplastics in the atmosphere are heating the planet, magnifying climate change impacts, according to new research. Scientists in China and the US found that tiny, colored plastic particles absorb sunlight…

Within the next 80 years, some of the world’s most iconic vacation destinations may be swallowed by rising seas – and disappear completely from the map. By 2100, climate change…

The Trump EPA recently made the deeply damaging decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding — the foundational scientific determination that climate change harms public health and welfare. To justify that decision, it relied on new and deeply flawed analysis that the American public never got a fair chance to examine.   Environmental Defense Fund led a…

For generations, the mild and temperate climate of north-western Europe has been credited to one legendary force: the Gulf Stream. This idea is so deeply entrenched in our cultural identity…

After greeting his audience backed by the sound of birds chirping, Utah Sen. John Curtis described his journey toward realizing the influence humans have on the climate, before engaging in…

TOKYO – Fuminori Arita once farmed “iyokan,” a Japanese citrus variety, but about 10 years ago he switched to growing avocados, reveling in the challenge of producing crops of what…

A recent Lancet Countdown report uses data to show how heat is increasingly affecting Europe, especially its healthcare system. Causes of death intensified by heat are rising sharply. Enzo Campetella…

El Niño happens when surface waters in the equatorial Pacific stay about 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer than average for at least three months. Its opposite, La Niña, occurs when those…

In the last few years, scientists have tracked a noticeable uptick in Earth’s average temperature. As experts investigate why warming is accelerating, a new study suggests that changes in ship…

Dealing with emissions could help alleviate effects of Iran crisis on global energy supply, says report. Published On 4 May 20264 May 2026 Tackling methane emissions in the fossil fuel…

Microplastics have become a ubiquitous part of our lives, infiltrating the soil, water, and even our bodies. They’re in the air too, and a new study suggests they’re contributing to…

An EU framework for calculating the life-cycle global warming potential (GWP) of new buildings has been published today, aimed at ensuring EU countries use comparable methodologies for this calculation. However,…

By the year 2085, more than a third of land-animal habitats could face multiple climate-driven disasters if warming keeps rising. This causes high alert, signaling that heatwaves, fires, floods, and…

Shutterstock Sure, the  climate of the Earth has always been changing. We know, for example, that in the past there were times when much of the Earth was covered with…

The global expansion of data centers used to power artificial intelligence (AI) across the globe is creating ‘heat islands’, according to a recent study. There’s no doubt that AI is…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious. In a particularly lateral example of how…

Rivers worldwide have grown warmer, poorer in oxygen, and more loaded with heat-trapping gases since 2002, according to new research. The study recasts river damage as a climate problem, because…

• The global average temperature in 2023 reached 1.48 C higher than the pre-industrial average, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. In 2024, it breached the 1.5 C…

Scientists have determined that “marine cloud reflectivity,” caused by cleaner air, has dropped by roughly 2.8 percent per decade across the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific. Together, those regions span…

LISTEN | Can baby coral nurseries rescue reefs from climate change?: What On Earth23:40Can baby coral nurseries rescue reefs from climate change? For Nadeem Nazurally, snorkelling off the coast of…

Climate change amplifies the burden of air pollution on cardiovascular health and helps explain why extreme heat and extreme cold are already linked to an increase in complications and deaths….