The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Experts say rainfall has been declining for decades in Syria, where a fledgling government is trying to stitch the country back together following 14 years of civil war.

Pakistan blames India for floods that have killed hundreds, but experts urge focus on climate change.

BCA member criticises climate modelling commissioned by lobby group that ‘underplays’ economic opportunities and does not factor in cost of inaction

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy.

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As climate change and human activity threaten freshwater ecosystems like lakes and rivers, it’s more important than ever to know how the species who inhabit them are being impacted. But traditional methods of monitoring species, such as catching animals, are challenging to implement and can miss rapid changes.

Weeks after Newslaundry’s investigation into e-waste recycling facilities in four states, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified the Environment Audit Rules, making way for a second line of regulatory mechanism for environmental compliance.

Heavy rains have led to some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades in large parts of Northern India

Portugal and Spain account for two-thirds of one million hectares of land destroyed by wildfire in Europe in 2025.

The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities

Researchers warn that simultaneous fires across Europe are overwhelming firefighting resources.