9 h. ago In Senegal, climate change is adding to historic tension between farmers and herders

Tension between farmers and herders has long been a fact of life in West Africa, but climate change is ramping it up

Society

17 h. ago ‘Net stupid zero’ vs economic madness: How the climate change debate is losing touch with reality

Right-wing and hard-left politicians offer little hope that humanity will emerge unscathed from its latest Fermi Paradox ‘great filter’

Economics

26 h. ago Survivors sue Shell in landmark case over deadly typhoon in Philippines: ‘We swam for our lives’

More than 100 Filipinos affected by Super Typhoon Rai are suing the British company in a case that will likely test whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for specific climate disasters

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27 h. ago Filipino survivors sue Shell in landmark case over deadly typhoon: ‘We swam for our lives’

More than 100 Filipinos affected by Super Typhoon Rai are suing the British company in a case that will likely test whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for specific climate disasters

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27 h. ago This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out • Mia Mottley is the prime minister of BarbadosThe timing is brutal. Just as the world celebrates the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris climate agreement this month, new evidence shows that the world is crashing through the main defence that was constructed against climate catastrophe.The three-year temperature average is – for the first time – set to exceed the Paris guardrail of 1.5C above preindustrial levels. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2025 will join 2023 and 2024 as the three warmest since the Industrial Revolution, reflecting the accelerating pace of the climate crisis.Mia Mottley is the prime minister of Barbados Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Water levels for the vital Colorado River are so low people can just walk across it

The ongoing climate crisis could have disastrous effects on the Colorado River, experts have warned

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4 d. ago Polar bears are 'adapting' their DNA to cope with warmer climates and survive

With global warning and climate change continuing to affect us humans, animals are also being forced to change their habits, as new research shows nature is evolving to survive

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4 d. ago Donald Trump is pursuing regime change – in Europe | Jonathan Freedland

The US made it clear this week that it plans to help the parties of the European far right gain power. Keir Starmer and his fellow leaders have to face this new realityWhen are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from Sex and the City’s Miranda Hobbes and realise that “He’s just not that into you”. After this past week, it’s clear that understates the problem. Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.The depth of US hostility was revealed most explicitly in the new US national security strategy, or NSS, a 29-page document that serves as a formal statement of the foreign policy of the second Trump administration. There is much there to lament, starting with the sceptical quote marks that appear around the sole reference to “climate change”, but the ...

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4 d. ago AP photographers capture destruction, heartache and resilience as climate change advanced in 2025

Tropical storms pummeled the land and ravaged ecosystems

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4 d. ago Rare orangutan species faces extinction after devastating Indonesia floods

Local rangers say they are struggling to find the primates in an area where sightings were common prior to the disaster

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5 d. ago The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit

There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have madeToday marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty, one of the landmark days in climate-action history. Attending the conference as a journalist, I watched and listened and wondered whether 194 countries could ever agree on anything at all, and the night before they did, people who I thought were more sophisticated than me assured me they couldn’t. Then they did. There are a lot of ways to tell the story of what it means and where we are now, but any version of it needs respect for the complexities, because there are a lot of latitudes between the poles of total victory and total defeat.I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling that gives that treaty enforceable consequences it never had before. I...

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5 d. ago Funding to fight the climate crisis is failing the countries that need it most

For Somalia — and countries like it — transparent, accessible and predictable climate finance is the difference between resilience and ruin, writes the country's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

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5 d. ago Stress from rapidly warming climate is visible in polar bears’ DNA, study shows

Study is the first to find a statistically significant link between rising temperatures and altered DNA activity in a wild mammal

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5 d. ago Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds

Scientists say bears in southern Greenland differ genetically to those in the north, suggesting they could adjustChanges in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between rising temperatures and changing DNA in a wild mammal species.Climate breakdown is threatening the survival of polar bears. Two-thirds of them are expected to have disappeared by 2050 as their icy habitat melts and the weather becomes hotter. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Warming oceans made Asia’s deadly floods far worse, scientists say

Sea surface temperatures over the North Indian Ocean were 0.2C higher than the average over the past three decades, researchers say

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5 d. ago Living in extreme heat slows children’s early development, study finds

Study’s findings ‘should alert researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to the urgent need to protect children’s development in a warming world’

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5 d. ago Takeaways from AP’s report on potential impacts of Alaska’s proposed Ambler Access Road

A proposed mining road in Northwest Alaska has sparked debate amid climate change impacts

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5 d. ago Australia receives first climate migrants from sinking Pacific nation Tuvalu

Tuvalu is already losing ground to encroaching tides and storm surges and could be underwater by 2050

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6 d. ago Warming oceans made Asia’s deadly floods far worse, scientists say (cloned)

Sea surface temperatures over the North Indian Ocean were 0.2C higher than the average over the past three decades, researchers say

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6 d. ago Ocean warmed by climate change fed intense rainfall and deadly floods in Asia, study finds

Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides across Asia in recent weeks, according to an analysis released Wednesday

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