The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Pacific Islands Forum 2025 faces bumpy start with China, the US and Taiwan uninvited from discussions, as Pacific leaders gather in Solomon Islands

The existential threat of climate change and ever-intensifying regional rivalries will loom large over Pacific leader talks in Honiara.

Caribou will likely face population declines rarely experienced in 21,000 years due to climate change. That’s the main finding from our recently published research on the historical resilience of caribou populations.

Now that the dust has settled on the World Court's landmark advisory opinion on climate, the young Pacific leaders behind it are mapping out next moves.

Experts say rainfall has been declining for decades in Syria, where a fledgling government is trying to stitch the country back together following 14 years of civil war.

Pakistan blames India for floods that have killed hundreds, but experts urge focus on climate change.

BCA member criticises climate modelling commissioned by lobby group that ‘underplays’ economic opportunities and does not factor in cost of inaction

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy.

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As climate change and human activity threaten freshwater ecosystems like lakes and rivers, it’s more important than ever to know how the species who inhabit them are being impacted. But traditional methods of monitoring species, such as catching animals, are challenging to implement and can miss rapid changes.

Weeks after Newslaundry’s investigation into e-waste recycling facilities in four states, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified the Environment Audit Rules, making way for a second line of regulatory mechanism for environmental compliance.