The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

How an NZ-based consultancy is going global to find the hundreds of specialists needed for the flood rebuild and a climate-challenged future.

The Met Office said last month's sustained heatwave had been made at least twice as likely due to climate change.

“There are definitely some weird things happening to our climate and the weather"

Over the past two decades, a staggering 21.8 million Americans found themselves living within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of a large wildfire. Most of those residents would have had to evacuate, and many would have been exposed to smoke and emotional trauma from the fire.

The U.K.'s weather agency says the country sweltered through its hottest June since records began in 1884

"Plastic pollution releases toxic gases once into the sea and can accelerate climate change"

Average temperatures surpassed the previous record by 0.9°C, with the jump sparking concerns from the Met Office.

Experts say it is down to climate change

Met Office says the mean temperature in June was 15.8C, which beats 1940's and 1976's peaks of 14.9C but this isn't to be celebrated, experts say, due to climate change

The UK’s housing stock is old, energy inefficient and heavily reliant on fossil fuel heating systems – mainly gas boilers. With heating responsible for 17% of the UK’s carbon emissions, homes and their central heating must transform if the country is to achieve net zero by 2050.

The need to cut the emissions driving climate change is urgent, but it’s proving hard to decarbonise road transport in Australia. Its share of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions doubled from 8% in 1990 to 16% in 2020. New vehicles sold in Australia have barely improved average emissions performance…