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The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a…

Fatma Zehra Solmaz 15 October 2026•Update: 15 October 2026 The Ankara Climate Transition Forum, held in the runup to next month’s COP31 UN Climate Change Conference, to be hosted in…

Scientists observed nine chosen rodent species from Argentina and Chile to record their capacity to adapt to environmental change based on three fundamental behavioural traits: diel activity (a regular 24-hour…

Hyundai Engineering said on October 15 that it had completed a climate change response support project in Vietnam and transferred its education and environmental infrastructure to local institutions. For three…

Native Vote 2026 President Trump’s campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska, followed the script. Attack “dumbocrats.” Dismiss concerns about high gas prices. And, of course, one of his favorite tunes, climate…

A total of 197 countries are expected to participate in the global climate summit in Turkey next month. Unfortunately, Israel will likely not be among them, due to a combination…

Seyit Kurt 14 October 2026•Update: 14 October 2026 Türkiye’s Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister and COP31 President Murat Kurum held an online meeting with Australian Climate Change and Energy…

Scientists said in the annual State of the Climate report, published on October 14 in the journal BioScience, that Earth’s climate system is increasingly moving into uncharted conditions. As TIME…

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The seventh annual report by an international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists says the Earth’s climate system is quickly becoming unstable and that while signs…

New Delhi: Climate policies often have a hidden cost that poorer families have to pay. Carbon pricing makes companies pay for the greenhouse gases they emit, but this raises the…

After last week’s pre-COP 31 meeting in Tuvalu, the country’s Climate Change Minister, Maina Talia, has pushed back on criticism that the event was a failure. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony…

We got some grim news recently when the United Nations conceded that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming. The Associated Press…

For years, the world has understood climate change as an environmental problem – melting glaciers, rising seas, extreme weather. But what happens in people’s minds when their world becomes unstable?…

Ending emissions will not immediately reverse the effects of climate change, new modelling shows. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS The Pacific Ocean could feel the effects of global warming for centuries…

Scientists are coming under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global report on the climate, despite pleas from vulnerable countries worried that…

Guimarães, the current European Green Capital, is the second Portuguese city to receive this title, after Lisbon. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The Minho city in northern Portugal beat Heilbronn in Germany and…

This editorial draws on The Taku Pakasoa Declaration: Strength in Unity from the PRECOP31 Leaders Meeting in Tuvalu and adds no missing details.  THE Taku Pakasoa Declaration reflects strength in…

For decades, the fight for sustainable, climate-resilient, hazard-averse development in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) has gone unheeded, and the region is witnessing frequent and severe climate-induced disasters. The catastrophic…

Climate change helped fuel record levels of extreme rainfall worldwide in 2024, and similar conditions developing during the current El Niño could lead to another record for heavy precipitation in…

Cars driving past steaming smokestacks, both human activities that introduce greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A new review summarizes over three decades of “incontrovertible” evidence for human influence on global…

Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change and Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. He has previously served as a lead author…

The European Union is preparing to use the upcoming COP31 climate summit to spearhead a comprehensive agreement aimed at accelerating global greenhouse gas reductions and emissions heating the planet. As…

New warnings that humans are flirting with out-of-control artificial intelligence raise an uneasy question: Has AI surpassed climate change as one of humanity’s gravest risks? Although the danger of the…

Should play their part in just transition, principle of equity and historical global warming tax Activists hold a silent protest against the draft agreement, during the COP29 United Nations Climate…

Tens of thousands of people marched through the Belgian capital Brussels on Sunday to urge EU leaders for stronger action to tackle climate change. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Record-breaking temperatures and consecutive…

Record heatwaves across Europe in recent months have raised concerns about the impact that man-made climate change is having on the continent. Delegates from around the globe will gather in…

There, the water cools, becomes saltier and denser, sinks into deeper layers of the ocean and flows back south. The Atlantic Ocean’s system of currents, which transports heat between different…

Washington (AFP) – The political fight against global warming may be losing steam, but the legal battle is heating up. Over the past decade, legal activists have successfully taken a number…

Tokyo | There were two very different versions of Australia’s energy future on display in the Asia-Pacific this week. In Tokyo, Treasurer Jim Chalmers was assuring the world’s fourth-largest economy…

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that coral reefs are moving toward the poles due to the warming oceans? Can they outrun climate change’s damaging effects? —Mike T., Seattle, WA Greenhouse…