Climate Change

The government, which wants to restore 35,000 hectares of English peatlands by 2025, backs the market while also providing grants.

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans has reached "unprecedented levels" over the past 15 years, a new study has found, calling for a legally binding international treaty to stop the harmful waste.

Aviation is responsible for almost 3 per cent of the global omission. At H2FLY, Mara Linn Beche, and engineer Debjani Ghosh are part of the change in starting carbon-free sustainable aviation.

Researchers of the study state that the "current governance is not enough" and "flood risk needs to be a bigger international priority."

"There need to be renewed efforts to stop forests being lost and to regenerate lost and degraded areas," says Professor Dominick Spracklen.

A team of influential economists has urged China to adopt a new development model based on "wellbeing" rather than GDP growth in order to fulfil its 2060 net-zero emissions goals and head off the mounting threats of climate change.

Last year, Italy had to declare a state of emergency in its five northern regions after it faced its worst drought in 70 years

Thwaites is nicknamed as the 'Doomsday Glacier' because its collapse could lead to a catastrophic rise in sea levels.

Activists from the group Animal Rebellion lit flares as they sat at a table with a candelabra and champagne flutes on Westminster Bridge in central London.

The UK could be at the forefront of a new leading business and environmental model that could open up new future opportunities for the country and perhaps hope for brighter, more sustainable times in the long run.

US space agency NASA is offering cash prizes to anyone who can find algal blooms in pictures from space.

The authorities closed one of the country's famous beaches after sharks brutally attacked a dolphin

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained along with a group of activists.

Scientists have warned that 2023 could see unprecedented heat waves due to the return of the El Niño climate phenomenon later this year.

Climate activists protested in Davos on Sunday against the role of big oil firms at this week's World Economic Forum (WEF), saying they were hijacking the climate debate.

The otherwise crystal-clear rivers and streams of Alaska are turning bright orange and cloudy.

A US-based start-up has started releasing sulphur particles into Earth's atmosphere in an attempt to fight climate change.

Most of England and Wales experienced drought this summer after exceptionally high temperatures and heatwaves as well as little rainfall.

Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crises around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns.

Around 2,500 endangered seals were found dead in the southern Russian province of Dagestan over the weekend.

Countries closed this year's U.N. climate summit on Sunday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its lack of ambition in tackling the emissions causing them.

The 4th richest person in the world has yet to set the target amount he plans to give away in his lifetime.

Sunak, who took office just three weeks ago, swiftly restored a fracking ban that was controversially lifted by his short-lived predecessor Liz Truss.

Countries representing more than half of the global economy on Friday specified the steps they will take to help accelerate the low-carbon transition by cutting emissions in sectors including power, transport and steel.

Scientists have been able to discover the world's largest known seagrass ecosystem in the Bahamas with the help of tiger sharks.

After tolerating high temperatures and drought in the summer, Britons have now been warned of floods in the autumn.

Some rich countries are now taking action, suggesting a growing acknowledgement that this funding cannot be delayed forever.

At last year's UN summit in Glasgow, the European Union and the United States rejected calls for a separate financial mechanism.

Nearly 200 countries gathering for the U.N. climate conference in Egypt are expected to lock horns over whether rich nations should pay compensation to vulnerable states hit by climate-fuelled disasters.

Last week the UN warned that "there is no credible pathway in place" for capping the rise in global temperatures under the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius.