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The CSIRO's latest megatrends report, released every decade, says there has been a seismic shift in the challenges we'll face over the next 20 years, including climate change, geopolitics and artificial intelligence.

How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe

A sizeable drop in Germany's birth rate in the first months of 2022 has prompted claims from anti-vaxxers that COVID-19 vaccines were to blame.

Things could have been so different. In June 1992, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro created the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, launching the formal international mission to bring global warming emissions under control and reduce humanity’s negative impacts on our…

Exclusive: High Wycombe MP says if he won leadership race he would dismantle green policies

Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread environmental disruption and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world faces unavoidable climate hazards over the next two decades. But, with average annual global greenhouse-gas emissions reaching their highest…

Eliminating emissions of CO₂ is high up the environmental agenda – but the world should not lose sight of the threat from methane. There has been a disturbing recent surge in atmospheric methane, which is more than 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas over the course of a…

Sixteen people are thought to be missing as authorities describe the disaster as an ‘unthinkable carnage’.

ROME: An avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others on Sunday, an emergency services spokeswoman said.

Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels requires reaching net zero emissions by the middle of this century. This means that, in less than three decades, we need to reverse more than a century of rising emissions and bring annual emissions down to near zero, while balancing out all…

Billions of people are likely to be displaced by climate change. But calling them ‘climate refugees’ oversimplifies the complex reasons people flee their homes, Sanjay Chaturvedi.