The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

“Climate change is racist”. So reads the title of a recent book by British journalist Jeremy Williams. While this title might seem provocative, it’s long been recognised that people of colour suffer disproportionate harms under climate change – and this is likely to worsen in the coming decades.

Carbon, born inside stars, catalysed life on Earth — but lately it's been getting a bad rap. This is carbon's journey from cosmic wonder to global pariah. It starts at an (in)famous music festival in 1970.

Whether to spend money on outer space exploration or to apply it to solve serious problems on Earth, like climate change and food shortages, is a contentious debate. But one argument in favour of space exploration highlights benefits that do, in fact, help study, monitor and address serious concerns like…

Newcastle Herald readers have their say.

Torrential rains in Japan, record-breaking heatwaves in Europe, and recurring droughts in the western US. For the second year in a row the start of summer in the northern hemisphere has been marked by extreme weather. To what extent is global warming to blame?

Climate change is slowly, but drastically, influencing how we live, work and play. Governments, as well as for-profit and non-profit organizations, are now seeking ways to limit the effects of human actions on the planet. In many parts of the world, including Australia and Canada, governments are limiting the use…

Conservative MP Chris Skidmore warns his party has ‘two weeks’ to save the target.

Regional sustainability consultancy has parterned with US academics to launch Futures Carbon Bank

Heatwaves are the deadliest extreme weather event in the UK, and are set to become more frequent and more intense

Experts also say that heatwaves are extremely deadly. 'much more so than floods or storms', as the UK basks in hot weather this week

The former United star has also called on the new PM to 'stop ignoring' climate change