The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe with expensive and deadly consequences

Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul

Soaring carbon emissions, an unexpected new source of global warming, and collapsing ocean currents shocked scientists in 2024. Here are our picks for this year's top climate change stories.

Climate change has led to extremes including a summer heatwave as well as snowfall and several storms this year.

Airline travel is a major contributor to anthropogenic climate change, amounting to about 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions every year. Airlines must take specific measures to reduce, and ideally neutralise, their greenhouse gas emissions and environmental footprint. The airline industry and air travellers are aware of this. However,…

Human activities are increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and raising global temperatures.

A state Supreme Court gives environmental activists an important symbolic victory that will not do much of anything to mitigate the threat of climate change.

President Biden's ambitious emissions reduction plan faces challenges with Trump's potential withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

To combat climate change and help nature to recover, a lot more investment is urgently needed. The UN’s State of Finance for Nature report claims that if the world is to meet climate, biodiversity and land degradation targets, it needs to invest an extra US$4.1 trillion (£3.2 trillion) by 2050.

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over…

OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the global world’