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Rising desertification shows we can’t keep farming with fossil fuels

Tractors and chemicals have served food production well, but at a cost to healthy soil.

12.12.2024 5

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Why UN climate change summits are ‘fundamentally flawed’

Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for...

27.11.2024 5

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Cop29 so far: the good and bad news

Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory. “It took a century...

20.11.2024 10

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Climate crisis: what Trump can (and can’t) do

Donald Trump will return to lead the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas. Neither Trump nor Kamala Harris made the climate crisis...

06.11.2024 7

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Wildlife, climate and plastic: how three summits aim to repair a growing rift with nature

Cali, Baku and Busan will host the conferences this autumn.

16.10.2024 3

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Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both

Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal emits more heat-trapping gas to the atmosphere...

09.10.2024 5

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Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate

Artificial intelligence (AI) is curating your social media feed and giving you directions to the train station. It’s also throwing the fossil fuel...

02.10.2024 10

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Nature is adapting to climate change – why aren’t we?

Humanity may be no better prepared for the impacts of climate change today than in the 1970s. So says a new study led by Stanford University...

25.09.2024 10

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When did the climate crisis begin?

How old is the climate crisis? I was born in 1994, when the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere was measured at 360 parts per million; today it...

04.09.2024 8

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Will tornadoes and waterspouts thrive as Earth heats up?

Unusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a “waterspout” that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leaving several people dead or...

21.08.2024 10

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After a streak of record-breaking global temperatures, the climate is on a knife-edge

For 13 consecutive months, global average air and ocean temperatures were probably the hottest they have been in human history. This streak of...

15.08.2024 10

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Why wildfires are getting more dangerous

After more than a year of record-breaking heat, the peak of fire season is approaching across vast swathes of our green planet. Lots of ecosystems...

07.08.2024 7

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Can the Olympics survive the climate crisis?

The 2024 Olympic Games opened on the same week Earth recorded its hottest day ever. A different kind of record-breaking will be animating competitors...

31.07.2024 5

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Why courts favour cars, not the climate

For planning to block a motorway encircling London, five Just Stop Oil activists were recently sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison. Just...

24.07.2024 4

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Earth is getting hotter – so why is this summer so dismal?

Fossil fuels have kept Earth 1.5°C hotter than its pre-industrial average temperature for more than a year now. And yet, where I live in the UK, this...

10.07.2024 5

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How hurricanes will change as the Earth warms

When Hurricane Beryl hit the Grenadine Islands on July 1, its 150-mph winds and awesome storm surge made it the earliest category 5 storm (the most...

04.07.2024 50

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Why animal ethics matters for tackling climate change

The world’s oldest animal welfare charity, Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), is under fire from non-human...

20.06.2024 7

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Fossil fuel ads work on you too – here’s how

If countries cannot keep fossil fuels in the ground then they should at least keep their ads off the air. “Godfathers of climate chaos” in the...

12.06.2024 5

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Does voting help the climate?

The world’s biggest election took place in heat so severe it claimed the lives of several poll workers. Nearly one billion people were eligible to...

05.06.2024 9

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If Earth gets sick, so do you

A hotter world is likely to be a sicker world. Earth’s growing fever has obvious repercussions for human health, like heatwaves that are hotter than...

22.05.2024 20

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Why cheap renewables are stalling

Plus, a better way to decarbonise the power sector.

15.05.2024 20

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A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050

Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping...

08.05.2024 20

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Plastic is climate change in a bottle – so let’s put a cap on it

Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round of negotiations for a global pact on...

03.05.2024 10

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The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai

A reckless experiment in Earth’s atmosphere caused a desert metropolis to flood. That was the story last week when more than a year’s worth of...

24.04.2024 20

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Easter eggs are more expensive this year and climate change may be a culprit

Chocolate eggs and bunnies cost more than ever this Easter – but the farmers who make these treats possible are in dire straits. Cocoa is currently...

28.03.2024 20

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Why farmers are struggling to go green

A crisis is brewing in the systems that feed us. More than a third of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the way we produce, process...

13.03.2024 10

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Climate change is warping the seasons

The seasons aren’t what they used to be. People who live in Earth’s middle latitudes are accustomed to a spring, summer, autumn and winter. If...

06.03.2024 20

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Veganuary: four surprising perks of a plant-based  diet

If you’re not consuming animal products this month then you just passed the halfway mark. Congratulations. Every chicken breast and milk carton you...

17.01.2024 10

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Global heating may breach 1.5°C in 2024 – here’s what that could look like

It’s official: 2023 was Earth’s hottest year ever recorded, beating the previous record set in 2016 by a huge margin. Last year was also the first...

11.01.2024 10

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How fossil fuel companies won COP28

Another climate summit has come and gone. The 28th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28 to you and me)...

20.12.2023 20

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