The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Over the past decades, heavy and more frequent rainfall and dry spells in southern Africa have caused loss and damage to agriculture, livestock, the energy sector, food security and nutrition.

Sloth metabolism is sensitive to the sharp temperature increases caused by burning fossil fuels

"The new president will bring their own agricultural policy agenda to the job. . . "

This approach to environmental action produces results that can be sustained over time because they are aligned with real-world economic incentives.

Below the surface of the oceans, microscopic algae known as phytoplankton are growing as the world warms. That’s one finding of our new study, published in Nature Climate Change, which provides the first long-term account, over more than three decades, of phytoplankton that live beyond the sight of ocean-monitoring satellites.

The devastating effects of climate change have caused Alpine glaciers to melt at record rates

Former president is heading to Georgia on Monday after the state was hammered by Hurricane Helene

With private insurer losses expected to top $6 billion, Hurricane Helene is another reminder of climate change's impact on the US home insurance market. Also in this edition: the UK's last coal-fired power plant gets set to shut down after 54 years as the country pursues its green energy transition.

Africa is often viewed as a relatively young continent, with less than 7% of the population over 60. But this is set to change. Declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancy mean that by 2050, the number of people over 60 in Africa is projected to triple to 235 million…