Browsing: climate

By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Trump administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have argued…

The British government should be stockpiling food, according to a leading expert on food policy, as it is not prepared for climate shocks or wars that…

The past three years have been the warmest recorded on Earth.Credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via GettyThe rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and…

Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to…

Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists. Yashas Raj and Jake…

Flooding of the Ganges River in India (pictured) and Bangladesh affects millions of people.Credit: Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times via GettyThe United Nations warned in January that the…

After a year of the administration of US President Donald Trump cancelling various climate programmes — crafted over decades using world-class research — the country’s Environmental…

On February 12, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its “endangerment finding” for greenhouse gases, claiming it lacks authority to regulate global pollution under the Clean Air Act. If this…

Labor is being pushed to introduce tough new national rules for protecting threatened species exposed to disasters including bushfires and floods, with the former Treasury boss…

UK programmes to protect nature and the climate in developing countries are suffering swingeing budget cuts despite ministers’ promises, the Guardian has learned.The cuts belie the…