The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

The world’s 20 most powerful economies, the G20 – currently led by South Africa – face mounting pressure to slash greenhouse gas emissions and help nations adapt to climate change. Economist and international affairs specialist Gaylor Montmasson-Clair co-heads the think-and-do tank Southern Transitions and also co-chairs the G20’s Think 20.…

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance

US president Donald Trump’s address to the annual gathering of the United Nations general assembly in late September 2025 set a new low in international relations. Trump delivered a broadside attack on multilateralism – the effort to solve the world’s problems through collective endeavour – as well as issues that…

Getting from A to B is Australia's third biggest source of emissions and policymakers have been urged to pedal hard on active and shared transport.

With oceans showing dangerous levels of acidity, seven of nine crucial planetary boundaries – the limits beyond which Earth risks becoming uninhabitable for humans – have now been breached, climate researchers warn. But one of the authors of a new report tells RFI that humanity still has a chance to…

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

The U.N. cultural agency UNESCO has designated 26 new biosphere reserves

Scientists say the findings should not obscure the devastation wrought by deforestation

Two-thirds of the world’s oceans lie beyond national borders, an unregulated expanse under growing pressure from mining, fishing and climate change. Now, a new UN treaty promises to change that – but could also trigger fresh conflicts over who controls the high seas.