16 h. ago Coral transplants could help save Miami’s iconic reefs from climate change

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Coral in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast

Politics

16 h. ago Aid cuts leave a million facing starvation in Nigeria – as food supplies run out

Exclusive: Huge cuts to international aid – alongside intensifying conflict and the devastating impact of climate change – are creating a humanitarian crisis across Nigeria and its neighbours. Now, the UN’s food charity has warned that supplies of food are set to run out next month. Nick Ferris reports

Economics

19 h. ago Preferred candidate for chairman of Climate Change Committee announced

The role is key to the committee’s work of advising ministers on climate targets and reporting progress to Parliament.

Politics

20 h. ago Trump’s cuts leave a million facing starvation in Nigeria – as food aid runs out

Exclusive: Huge cuts to international aid – alongside intensifying conflict and the devastating impact of climate change – are creating a humanitarian crisis across Nigeria and its neighbours. Now, the UN’s food charity is warning of the risk of famine, with supplies of food set to run out next month. Nick Ferris reports

Politics

21 h. ago Canada races to build icebreakers amid melting ice and geopolitical tensions

In an Arctic reshaped by the climate crisis, less ice really means more as countries face risks in push for more shipsFor millennia, a mass of sea ice in the high Arctic has changed with the seasons, casting off its outer layer in summer and expanding in winter as it spins between Russia, Canada and Alaska. Known as the Beaufort Gyre, this fluke of geography and oceanography was once a proving ground for ice to “mature” into icebergs.But no more. A rapidly changing climate has reshaped the region, reducing perennial sea ice. As ocean currents spin what is left of the gyre, chunks of ice now clog many of the channels separating the northern islands. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Scientists transplant crossbred corals to help save Miami's reefs from climate change

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Coral in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast

Science

31 h. ago Zimbabwe's scrap metal hunters fight climate change a piece at a time

In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, thousands of informal workers collect scrap metal from illegal dumpsites to survive

Politics

35 h. ago Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules

Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate changeThere is a human right to a stable climate and states have a duty to protect it, a top court has ruled.Announcing the publication of a crucial advisory opinion on climate change on Thursday, Nancy Hernández López, president of the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR), said climate change carries “extraordinary risks” that are felt particularly keenly by people who are already vulnerable. Continue reading...

Events

38 h. ago Latin America’s top human rights court says states have duty to act on climate crisis

Latin America's top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations to their duty to address climate change

Events

41 h. ago Moment cyclist ticketed for 'riding no handed' confronts City of London officer over his fine

Climate change campaigner Paul Powlesland posted a video of the 'utterly bonkers' encounter with the female City of London officer on social media.

Sport

41 h. ago Gardeners urged to leave bowl of dog food in garden this July and August

Hedgehogs are a vital part of British wildlife but their numbers are also seriously under threat thanks to a mixture of habitat loss, climate change and the way gardens are now set up

Politics

47 h. ago China on high alert for floods as record rain triggers landslides and building collapse

Meteorological centre forecasts more storms across north and west even as east coast bakes under a scorching sun

Events

68 h. ago Could dengue spread in the UK? Experts fear climate change could bring tropical diseases to Europe

Climate change is pushing tropical infectious diseases northwards as pathogens thrive in hot and humid conditions

Politics

69 h. ago Wimbledon groundsman says Centre Court holding firm amid record heat

Neil Stubley says the turf is coping well after the hottest ever start, but warns climate change may force future adaptations.

Events

2 d. ago Met Office 'virtually certain' climate change caused heatwave as UK hit 34.7C

Experts have blamed climate change for the extreme heat that sizzled the UK in June

Society

3 d. ago Scientists blame climate change for UK heatwave: Met Office is 'virtually certain' 35°C temperatures were caused by global warming

The Met Office says it is 'virtually certain' that this week's 35°C temperatures were caused by global warming.

Society

3 d. ago Key climate change reports removed from US government websites

The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming worldLegally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their back yards from a warming world.Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the US Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within Nasa to comply with the law, but gave no further details. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared the federal websites built to display them

Politics

3 d. ago ‘Seeing climate change like this, it changes you’: dance duo Bicep on making a new project in Greenland

Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the Northern Irish artists are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing worldRussell glacier, at the edge of Greenland’s vast ice sheet, sounds as if it’s crying: moans emanate from deep within the slowly but inexorably melting ice. Andy Ferguson, one half of dance duo Bicep, walks around in its towering shadow recording these eerie sounds. “Everyone comes back changed,” he says of Greenland. “Seeing first-hand climate change happening like this.”It’s April 2023 and, in the wake of Bicep’s second album Isles cementing them as one of the leading electronic acts globally, Ferguson has travelled to Greenland as part of a project to collaborate with Indigenous musicians and bring the momentous struggle of this region – and even the planet – into focus. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Leading charity pulls accounts from HSBC over ‘climate damage worth more than £100bn’

‘Moving our money is not just symbolic; it’s a vital first step in challenging destructive financial systems,’ says ActionAid UK

Economics