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How these Nobel Prize winning scientists foresaw climate change

The Nobel Prize for physics has been split between 3 scientists working on the link between weather patterns and climate change.

Living

Got eco-anxiety? Here's how to raise a child sustainably

We bring you the best ways to raise an environmentally-conscious child.

Climate

Pope Francis and religious leaders call for action over climate change

"We have inherited a garden, we must not leave a desert to our children."

Green News

Europe is now home to the world’s longest undersea electricity cable

This is a chance for the two countries to share renewable energy for the first time.

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Living

Eua Island: The Tongan island tackling climate change

This project teaching Tongan islanders how to build their own canoes could help them adapt to the challenges of climate change.

Climate

The gases living in your fridge are worse for the environment than CO2

HFCs are worse for the climate than carbon dioxide, so why are they still in billions of homes worldwide?

Italy

COP26: World leaders prepare climate commitments in run up to summit

Delegates from around the world met in Milan on Saturday to identify where progress can be made before the summit starts in Glasgow on October 31.

Climate

Why calling extreme climate events ‘natural’ disasters is wrong

The release of the IPCC report on climate change prompted this campaign group to call for an end to ‘natural disaster’ terminology.

Green News

Extraordinary photos show how drought is causing Paraguay to dry up

Since 2019, Paraguay has been in the grips of severe drought which has seen water levels plummet in the landlocked nation's all-important waterways.

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Hundreds join climate change protest in Ukraine

Hundreds of people participated in a climate march in Kyiv Sunday to demand more effort from the government to combat climate change.

Green News

Euroviews. New York's first Black-owned winery is combatting climate change

Growers are installing cover crops to stabilise their soils and revolutionising how they irrigate their fields.

Eco-Innovation

The world’s biggest seaweed factory will soon feed cows of the future

Sweden is investing in seaweed to cut methane emissions in cows.

Climate

What are the impacts of the ozone hole on weather and climate?

The 2021 ozone hole is one of the biggest on record. But the impacts on weather and climate patterns remain quite mysterious.

Green News

These hijacked billboards take aim at 'Europe's dirtiest bank'

Brandalism’s subversive adverts try to show us how Barclays finances the fossil fuel industry.

Green News

Day 24: Berlin’s hunger strikers starve for climate justice

As Germany prepares for a decisive election, hunger strikers are staging the country's most radical protest in decades.

World News

Europe's Mediterranean leaders pledge climate cooperation

Leaders from nine Mediterranean countries committed to boosting their cooperation against climate change after massive wildfires ravaged parts of southern Europe.

World News

Climate pledges put planet on 'catastrophic pathway,' warns UN

Pledges submitted by governments so far would still result in emissions rising by 16% in 2030 compared with the 2010 levels, according to a new report by the UN.

Climate

Is carbon capture the answer to the climate crisis?

“We need carbon dioxide removal at quite a substantial scale. By mid-century, we need 10 billion tonnes removed each year.”

Ocean

Protecting Antarctica - The geopolitical challenge with high global stakes

In partnership with the European Commission

The Antarctic Ocean plays a central role in our climate and in marine ecosystems, but climate change is threatening this. We find out how it's possible to protect one of the planet's key areas.

Climate Now

Scientists sniff for hidden methane leaks to combat global warming

In partnership with Copernicus

The IPCC report last month called for a big effort to reduce methane emissions from industrial sources. Finding them is surprisingly tricky, as we found out when we joined a team sniffing for hidden leaks in the streets of Utrecht.