The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Why the climate crisis is a women’s rights crisis

African countries collectively have emitted very little of the greenhouse gases that have caused climate change, but are badly affected by climate-induced floods, droughts and heatwaves. To withstand some of the most devastating extreme weather events, African countries need to adapt fast. Setting up advanced climate information services that predict…

Government should point to evidence of FSA licensing of additive, says chair of environment and climate change committee

The United Nations’ 29th annual climate change conference of the parties, COP29, ended with countries from the global north committing US$300 billion per year in climate finance to developing countries. This money is meant to pay for developing countries to carry out climate change adaptation and mitigation and move away…

LAST week, Scotland's Nature Agency, NatureScot, has announced its priorities towards nature following the publication of the Scottish Biodiversity…

Extensive flooding of the River Thames and its tributaries across south-east England in February 2014 was caused by extraordinary weather conditions. Very heavy rain had fallen on ground already saturated by multiple storms since the previous December. Hundreds of residents were evacuated and the flooding damaged thousands of homes and…

It is a common refrain to say that geopolitics gets in the way of climate action. From the war in Ukraine to trade tensions, each year seems to bring another immediate priority that diverts focus from the imperative to act on climate change.

In South Africa, the new 2024 Climate Change Act requires local governments to plan responses to global warming. These local authorities should find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where possible, such as from their bus services, and reduce their use of electricity that is produced by burning coal. They…

The Copernicus Climate Change Service says this year is sure to eclipse 2023 as the hottest yet.

More than three-quarters of the land on Earth is permanently drying, primarily due to climate change, according to a report released Monday at a United Nations summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

This year is "effectively certain" to be the warmest on record and the first calendar year in which average global temperatures were more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, Europe’s climate monitor has announced.