The Latest Breaking News on Climate change

‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño

From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17

Study Links Warming To Disaster: WWA finds climate change primed Nepal-Tibet slope; Nepal eyes $20m UN loss fund

Study expected to strengthen Kathmandu’s case by linking climate change to disaster

The Times of India · Sep 17

El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in August

Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17

EU plans new firefighting fleet after deadly summer heat wave

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a scorching summer has shown the EU needs new tools to tackle climate change

The Independent UK · Sep 16

Argentina's Weather Whiplash Is Just a Preview of a 100%-Confirmed El Niño Spring

Argentina's extreme-cold alert has expired nationwide, but Río Gallegos hit -10.3°C and Patagonia still faces snow as a confirmed El Niño spring nears.

Latin Times · Sep 15

336,000 Peruvian Teens Just Vanished from the Classroom — The Data Behind Peru's Youth Education Gap

336,000 Peruvian teens are out of school as PISA scores hit a decade low. Here's what the data reveals about poverty, work and risk.

Latin Times · Sep 15

The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it

One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse, says climate professor Bill McGuire

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15

Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’

From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from all over the world for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venison

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15

Three women arrested after 6-year-old dies from being left inside hot daycare van

State investigators say that Kid University staff failed to complete required vehicle inspections, omitted accurate transportation logs and skipped mandatory van walk-throughs

The Independent UK · Sep 14

Nature didn’t act alone in Nepal’s flash flood disaster

Nepal, like the rest of the world, has already experienced a disproportionate share of the fallout from rising global temperatures and related ecological disruption. The disaster that hit Nepal was merely the tip of the iceberg; if not today, the inevitability of it happening at some point in the future…

Newslaundry · Sep 14