It is the first whale to have died out of 15 entangled in shark nets on Australia’s east coast so far this year Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A juvenile humpback whale has been found dead
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed. It says the world’s
Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10% The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian. These
Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families are trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica Hurricane Melissa – latest updates A visual guide to Jamaica’s strongest storm since 1851 Hurricane Melissa has made landfall as
Slow-moving giant makes landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba Hurricane Melissa – latest updates Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851.
Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target and warned of devastation Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising
Exclusive: Firms say added costs would mean they are unable to install enough turbines to meet green energy goals Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new UK nature rules in an attempt to keep down the cost of renewable energy, the Guardian has learned. The energy
The story of Atlantic hurricanes is treading a familiar — and frightening — path: Climate change is fueling huge, slow-moving, rain-drenching storms.
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Coalition MPs weighing up whether to
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Australia’s oceans will enter “uncharted
Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting
US groups aim to represent country at UN climate summit even as Trump administration declines to send a delegation Despite historic environmental rollbacks under a president who pulled the US from a key international climate treaty – and recently called global warming “the
As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents Franck Detcheverry, Miquelon’s 41-year-old mayor, trudges up a grassy hill. “The view isn’t too bad, huh?” he jokes. The
A new study shows how much food polar bears leave behind — and how their decline threatens scavengers across the Arctic.
Extracts of planned changes to the EPBC Act prompt ‘anger’ from conservation organisations that fear nature protection will be weakened Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast State governments could be given expanded powers to make decisions on fossil fuel
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found. Users of gas have been among the biggest beneficiaries, the research suggested.
