Climate
How to flood-proof your home: from water-thirsty plants to deflated footballs
After summer’s heatwaves, prepare for winter of storms and heavy rain, with millions of UK homes at risk of flooding The accelerating climate crisis and this year’s record-breakin…
Environmental and Public Health Groups Sue Over the Trump EPA’s Latest Attempt to Bolster Fossil Fuels
Environmental and public health groups are suing the Trump administration over its most recent move to eliminate protections against climate-warming pollution. The Environmental P…
Alleged underworld supporters and unfounded health claims: One Nation rolls out more Victorian election candidates
Party has unveiled a steady stream of contenders for state election, including a former councillor who lost his licence for drink-drivingGet our new political email, free app or d…
Australia’s big polluters rely on carbon offsets for climate credibility. But the system looks like a house of cards | Adam Morton
Credits are treated as a straight alternative to emissions cuts, but carbon stored in nature is different to burning millennia-old fossil fuelsThe fight within the Greens that led…
Trump Targets Big Bad Wolves, but Ranchers Say Other Administration Actions Drive Their Woes
America’s centuries-old conflict with wolves took another turn earlier this month when President Donald Trump ordered the animals be stripped of federal protections across several…
California Adopts New Limits to Rein in Dairy Manure Pollution and Its ‘Outsized’ Groundwater Impacts
The California valley with the most dairy farms in the state will follow stricter water pollution requirements following years of advocacy and a marathon six-hour meeting this wee…
El Niño is supersizing! Are governments finally taking climate change seriously? No! | First Dog on the Moon
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The world’s rivers are at breaking point. Can we save them before it is too late?
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth delivered…
The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: a spur to action on climate | Editorial
New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politicsFollowing a familiar pattern, coverag…
Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with ... more mosquitoes
Nearly half a million more of the insects are being released in California – they’re all male and carry a bacteriumThe box arrived in the San Gabriel Valley, just east of Los Ange…
Australia’s approaching summer fills me with dread. I’m not equipped to battle 40C | Rebecca Shaw
When people say they love the heat, I presume they either have air conditioning or are lyingAs a cultured citizen of the globe (social media), I am witness to a lot of different o…
These State Elections Could Reshape Climate and Energy Policy
Democrats are poised to achieve trifectas—control of the governor’s office and both legislative chambers—in at least three states in this year’s midterm elections, and maybe even …
British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it | Andy Burnham
With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solutionAndy Burnham: UK must…
‘I see them like my own children’: reforesting Ethiopia with 50bn trees, one step at a time
After losing much of its forests in recent decades, ordinary citizens have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy InitiativeW…
Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money | Moira Donegan
The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industriesYou can impress a certain kind of person at a party by r…
Tories challenge chancellor to rule out tax rises in budget as Badenoch labelled ‘embarrassment’ for Bank of England gaffe – UK politics live
The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’The government should stop talking about “net zero” when talking abou…
Whales Have Rebounded in the Southern Ocean. Scientists Worry Commercial Fishing Could Threaten Their Comeback.
For the second year in a row, Antarctica’s industrial krill fishing fleet halted operations ahead of schedule after reaching its seasonal catch limit. The vessels had been harves…
In a Hard-Fought New York House Race, the Environment Is on the Ballot
NY-17: First in a series on the environmental stakes of one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. The Hudson River bisects New York’s 17th Congressional Dis…
Nine Florida Springs Will Get New Cleanup Plans Under Legal Settlement
Under a recent legal settlement, Florida will have to adopt new plans for addressing pollution in nine of the hundreds of freshwater springs in the state that constitute one of th…
2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds
Analysis of global resources reveals depletion in world’s water savings bank to 42% below normal levels last yearRivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in m…
Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths
No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.
Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in AugustClimate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing ca…
Climate Change Primed Nepal Glacier for Deadly Collapse
Climate attribution researchers say “there is absolutely no doubt” that decades of global warming set the stage for the deadly rock and glacier collapse on Langtang Lirung Mountai…
A New Bill Could Help Obstruct Future Energy Efficiency Standards for Home Appliances—and Repeal Old Ones
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard testimony Wednesday on the Energy Efficiency Reform Act. The new bill would make it much more difficult for the Departme…