The dream of keeping climate change to within 1.5°C (2.7°F) has taken a major hit. The latest climate report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed that 2024 was likely the first calendar year to have a global temperature more t... [3842 chars]
Fresh evidence today has set out how quickly the Earth's climate is changing - in some places so fast it has shocked scientists.
The new report arrives as the UK's long-standing political consensus on tackling climate change fractures - with Tory lea... [3989 chars]
It said that tropical cyclones, floods, droughts and other disasters in 2024 led to the highest number of new displacements recorded in the past 16 years. These events also worsened food crises and caused massive economic losses.
The report said long... [3095 chars]
In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when exposed to dry air, an occurrence expected to increas... [4352 chars]
HAMM, Germany (AP) — A German court on Monday started hearing a Peruvian farmer’s case against major energy company RWE, a lawsuit arguing that global warming fueled by the firm’s historical greenhouse gas emissions ultimately poses a risk to his hom... [2303 chars]
World Bank bureaucrats who jetted to the United Nations’ annual global warming conference spewed CO2 emissions equal to what’s produced by 200 US households in a year — sparking accusations of climate “hypocrisy,” The Post has learned.
A leaked guest... [6092 chars]
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds.
MIT researchers calculated that as global warming caused by burning of coal, oil, gas continues it ... [3023 chars]
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Monday that global warming is a side effect of building the modern world, and vowed to end former President Joe Biden's climate policies to promote growth of fossil fuels. Wright made the comments to kick of... [1359 chars]
During the annual CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright took a strong stance against former President Joe Biden's climate policies, framing global warming as a consequence of modern development.
He argued that oil,... [418 chars]
Last month saw the lowest global sea ice cover for any February on record in a stark reminder of how our planet is warming, new data reveal.
Sea ice is the frozen seawater that floats on the ocean's surface. As the planet warms, the amount of sea ice... [3232 chars]