The Latest Breaking News on Climate

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit.

Tiny bits of plastic can end up in water and soil at alarming levels, said lead author of University of Missouri paper

Australia has largely embraced the renewable energy superpower vision, but its key architect fears the transition to green power is falling short.

Late last year, a massive ocean swell caused by a low pressure system in the North Pacific generated waves up to 20 metres high, and damaged coastlines and property thousands of kilometres from its source.

They said Scotland cannot afford further delays on the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project.

Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana, where crops have been ravaged by climate change and disease.

Met Office meteorologist Zoe Hutin said there is a ‘heightened chance’ of seeing them due to the low cloud coverage and clear skies.

A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines challenges the viability of a proposed project snaking through five Midwest states

Brush fires on New York's Long Island have picked up quickly amid high winds