In Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, people have watched the ice fields turn to exposed rock and experts predict these vital water sources could be lost in 30 years
February 2025
RECORD BREAKING
RECORD BREAKING
Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?
Nature examines whether the temperature spike is a blip or an enduring — and concerning — trend. January 2025
Intolerable heat. Unsurvivable storms. Inescapable floods.
In 2024, billions of people across the world faced climatic conditions that broke record after record, logging ever more highs for heat, floods, storms, fire and drought. As the year drew to a close, the conclusion was both blatant and bleak: 2024 was the hottest year since records began, according to European climate scientists. "This is life now and it's not going to get easier. It's only going to get harder. That's what climate change means," said Andrew Pershing, chief programs officer at Climate Central, a U.S.-based non-profit climate advocacy group.
The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this.
The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday that 2024 was the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold, as well as the world's hottest on record.
January 2025
It was the hottest year ever recorded for the world’s lands and oceans in 2024, US government scientists have confirmed, providing yet another measure of how the climate crisis is pushing humanity into temperatures we have previously never experienced.
Last year was the hottest in global temperature records stretching back to 1850, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa announced, with the worldwide average 1.46C (2.6F) warmer than the era prior to humans burning huge volumes of planet-heating fossil fuels
January 2025
The airline industry is on course to miss its 2050 net zero target for aviation. Passenger numbers continue to soar, while alternatives to fossil fuels remain underdeveloped. Missing this target matters because aviation contributes significantly to climate change. UK aviation emits about 5% of global aviation emissions.
January 2025
POLITICAL VIEW
This theme looks at access to food and a healthy and sustainable diet at the household level. People’s access to the food they want and need to live a healthy active life is at the forefront of the 1996 World Food Summit food security definition. The stability of food security at the household level is enabled by the systems covered in the other themes.
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Why Barclays Is One of the Main Targets of UK Climate Activists
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September brings record-breaking floods to cities in Africa, Europe and Asia
England soaked by record rainfall in last 18 months, new Met Office figures show
Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low
At least 95 people dead in Spain’s worst floods in three decades
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Globally, over a third of inland wetlands declined from 1970 to 2015
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World's warmest August completes hottest boreal summer on record
Summer of 2024 was world's hottest on record, EU climate change monitor says
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Is the UN warning of 3.1C global warming a surprise?
First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument
Peak coal predicted this year despite promises to quit
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather
We are near tipping points that will make the climate crisis worse
Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance
Summer 2024 was world's hottest on record
Japan swelters through hottest summer while parts of China log warmest August on record
BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy
Wet September saw some counties experience rainiest month on record – Met Office
Wildfires are burning through humanity’s carbon budget, study shows
Deadly floods in Europe: How much is it going to cost economies?
Brazil mega dams promised a green future. Then came climate change
Global heating ‘doubled’ chance of extreme rain in Europe in September
Canada wildfires last year released more carbon than several countries
Unseasonal heat breaks Australia's winter temperature record
Los Angeles hit by double whammy of wildfires and earthquake
Barcelona and Majorca will shift to a desert-like climate by 2050
The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass law banning fossil fuel-related ads
From Bondi Beach to Uluru, how climate crisis is threatening Australia’s iconic tourist destinations
Africa faces disproportionate burden from climate change and adaptation costs
Trump-Harris debate: Where do they stand on the energy transition?
Italy’s Marmolada glacier could disappear by 2040, experts say
Climate impacts are crippling insurance – Big Oil must pay up
Hiker deaths in Grand Canyon rise amid extreme weather linked to climate crisis
US leads wealthy countries spending billions of public money on unproven ‘climate solutions’
'Drax hit with £25m penalty after lying about wood pellets: Watchdog says there are 'no excuses'
Future of 200 migratory bird species put at risk by cyclones and droughts
Heat deaths in Europe may triple by end of the century, study finds
Extreme weather fuelled flames coast to coast, largest study of 2023 wildfires finds
‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
The Adriatic is becoming tropical’: Italian fishers struggle to adapt to warm sea
‘This is climate change’: Scottish beach eroding by 7 metres a year
UK insurers pay out record claims as weather-related claims surge, industry body says
Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year
Wildlife boosted by England’s nature-friendly farming schemes, study finds
Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion
Drillers emit far more methane than US estimates, aerial survey shows
Extreme ‘heat dome’ hitting Olympics ‘impossible’ without global heating
Deaths During Annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia Underscore Extreme Heat Dangers
What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view
Antarctic ice shelves hide a big secret that threatens our coasts
Election survey: what switching voters thought on climate as they went to the polls
The Guardian view on Britain’s green future: where was the debate?
Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers
How record breaking hurricane beryl is a sign of a warming world
After Hurricane Beryl’s destruction, climate scientists fear for what’s next
Florida: tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise
In the andes, mountain guides bear witness to shrinking glaciers
Preparing London for climate impacts is ‘non-negotiable,’ landmark review warns
BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds
UN demands action on extreme heat as world registers warmest day
Typhoon Gaemi lashes China after pounding Taiwan, Philippines
Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint
Are reports of climate adaptation finance being exaggerated?
Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds
‘Never-ending’ UK rain made 10 times more likely by climate crisis, study says
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds
May and spring were warmest on record in UK, Met Office says
Germany likely to miss 2030 climate goal, government advisors say
The warring conmen at the heart of a €5bn carbon trading scam
UN climate chief warns of “steep mountain to climb” for COP29 after Bonn blame-game
Global heating will increase risk of parasite outbreaks, say South West Water owners
Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences
Greece shuts Acropolis, schools as it braces for 43°C heatwave
How do the UK parties rate on their environmental manifesto pledges?
Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds
Climate activists bemoan scant progress on finance as Cop29 looms
Extreme heat kills hundreds, millions more sweltering worldwide as summer begins
ENGLAND COULD produce 13 times more renewable energy using less than 3% of land
CLIMATE CHANGE: WORLD’S OCEANS SUFFER FROM RECORD-BREAKING YEAR OF HEAT
WORLD’S TOP CLIMATE SCIENTISTS EXPECT GLOBAL HEATING TO BLAST PAST 1.5°C TARGET
BRAZIL: IMAGES SHOW DEVASTATING IMPACT OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL FLOODS
BUMBLEBEE NESTS ARE OVERHEATING TO FATAL LEVELS, STUDY FINDS
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like
Banks financed fossil fuels by $6.9 trillion dollars since the Paris Agreement
We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future
Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds
Global supply chains amplify economic costs of future extreme heat risk
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report
Shell urged to clarify climate targets as it braces for shareholder rebellion
More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds
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As pollution kills, Africa needs billions for climate-ready stoves
TV meteorologist attacks Ron DeSantis over Florida’s ‘don’t say climate change’ law
UK At risk of summer water shortages and hosepipes bans, scientists warn
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
March 2024 is the tenth month in a row to be the hottest on record
UN Livestock Emissions Report Seriously Distorted Our Work, say experts
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is ‘transforming’ because of repeated coral bleaching
Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis
Fury after Exxon Chief says public to blame for climate failures
For Centuries we have plundered our planet. Now we are paying the price
Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat — is climate change making it worse?
Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists