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Jack MarleyThe Conversation |
Tractors and chemicals have served food production well, but at a cost to healthy soil.
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...
Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory. “It took a century...
Donald Trump will return to lead the world’s largest historical emitter of greenhouse gas. Neither Trump nor Kamala Harris made the climate crisis...
Cali, Baku and Busan will host the conferences this autumn.
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...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is curating your social media feed and giving you directions to the train station. It’s also throwing the fossil fuel...
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...
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...
Unusually warm waters off the coast of Sicily helped spawn a “waterspout” that sank a superyacht earlier this week, leaving several people dead or...
For 13 consecutive months, global average air and ocean temperatures were probably the hottest they have been in human history. This streak of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Plus, a better way to decarbonise the power sector.
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...
Plastic pollution and climate change have common culprits – and similar solutions. The penultimate round of negotiations for a global pact on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you’re not consuming animal products this month then you just passed the halfway mark. Congratulations. Every chicken breast and milk carton you...
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...
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)...