The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

Australia has just experienced its worst heatwave in six years but it's set to become much more common under existing policies to curb carbon emissions.

Southeast Asia’s need for coal is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, undermining progress on cutting carbon emissions that contribute to global warming

The 2026 Winter Olympics will rely on millions of cubic metres of artificial snow

When we think of polar bears, one image comes to mind almost instantly. A large, powerful animal wrapped in thick white fur, moving silently across ice and snow. For years, we have believed that polar bears are white because their fur is white. It feels obvious. It feels natural. But…

The World Economic Forum think tank opened its four-day annual meeting in the Swiss town of Davos on Tuesday where political leaders and business leaders will discuss issues ranging from economic disparity to climate change to world conflicts. This year's geopolitical context — with the recent U.S. military strike in…

Transitioning into a specialized entity, W4W, supported by the foundational expertise of the Queen Zaynab Foundation is scaling its operations to address the intersection of climate change and essential resource security across the Global South.

The Trump administration recently announced it would pull out of around 150 international and global organisations, including two foundational pillars of global climate organisations: the political United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In terms of media coverage this was…

The world is now using so much fresh water amid the consequences of climate change that it has entered an era of water bankruptcy, with many regions no longer able to bounce back from frequent water shortages.

Bike racing will feel the climate change like almost no other sport

The Sahel, the semi-arid African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, has become the epicentre of global terrorism, given the high number of attacks by armed groups and the resulting fatalities, including those suffered by civilians. This development is rooted…