global warming

Spanish police have arrested 27 people involved in a carbon tax fraud scheme.

Greenhouse gases at centre of tax fraud ring in Spain

Researchers have been studying the Batagay thaw slump to better understand the relationship between permafrost and rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Giant craters are opening up in the Arctic due to climate change

A Virgin Atlantic Airways plane taxis along the runway.

All but one of 50 airline climate targets missed in the UK since 2000

Victims survey the wreckage after a flood in Germany, climate events like this will be more common thanks to global heating

Vital indicators of climate change broke all previous records in 2021

A mother pushes a stroller in front of the Scholven coal fired power station, owned by Uniper, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Could we hit 1.5°C of global warming in the next five years?

10/05/2022

Wind turbines being built at the Greater Changhua Offshore Wind Farm in Taiwan.

Could offshore wind turbines actually help coral reefs survive?

06/05/2022

A plane lands at Heathrow Airport in London.

The real climate impact of flying could be much worse than we thought

04/05/2022

A seagrass meadow under the water.

This underwater plant absorbs carbon 30 times faster than a rainforest

03/05/2022

The latest IPCC report has been released today.

Global warming must be limited to 1.5°C to avoid ‘climate disaster’

04/04/2022

A wind turbine is seen in Ulcinj, Montenegro.

Wind power must gather speed to meet climate goals, report finds

04/04/2022

A pumpjack of Wintershall DEA extracting crude oil at an old oil field in Emlichheim, Germany.

Don't let Russia crisis fuel climate destruction, UN Chief warns

21/03/2022

A kayaker paddles in Lake Oroville as water levels remain low due to continuing drought conditions in Oroville, Calif., on Aug. 22

US 'megadrought' is the worst seen in 1,200 years

15/02/2022

Coral has been observed in the bleaching process.

Coral bleaching process caught on camera for the first time

28/01/2022

A person walks past the Olympic rings in the Zhangjiakou competition zone ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China

Climate change will limit choice for Winter Olympics hosts, says study

19/01/2022

Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive-Secretary, and Alok Sharma, President of the COP26 summit, attend a meeting at COP26, November 11, 2021.

COP26: Five key takeaways as climate negotiations near crunch time

11/11/2021