The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them

The Climate Change Committee has called for policy costs to come off electricity bills in an ‘optimistic’ first report on Labour’s climate progress.

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

Mosquito-borne dengue fever was rarely a major problem in Bangladesh's coastal districts, but some hospitals are so full of those with the potentially deadly virus that patients are treated on the floor.

The climate and ecological crisis is one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced. If the world fails to address it, and over the rest of this century we continue to burn fossil fuels and pump even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we’ll face catastrophe. On this much,…

New research suggests global warming is increasing the frequency and intensity of wind gusts from thunderstorm ‘downbursts’

Unexpected severe turbulence injured crew and passengers on a Qantas Boeing 737 during descent at Brisbane on May 4 2024. The subsequent Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation suggested the severity of the turbulence caught the captain by surprise.

An amber heat-health alert warns vulnerable people of the health risks, including ‘a rise in deaths’

Experts used real-time rapid analysis of the UK’s soaring temperatures to estimate excess mortality.