Climate change compensation fight brews ahead of COP27 summit 9/8/2022

Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit, as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world’s poorest people by climate change. ...more

Climate impacts have worsened vast range of human diseases 9/8/2022

More than half of the human diseases caused by pathogens have been worsened at some point by the sort of impacts associated with the climate crisis, a new and exhaustive study of the link between disease and climatic hazards has found. ...more

Climate deniers use past heat records to sow doubt online 9/8/2022

With Europe gripped by successive heatwaves, climate-change deniers are spreading scepticism by publishing data on social media on extreme temperatures allegedly recorded decades ago to imply scientists are exaggerating global warming. ...more

New Zealand releases its first national plan to protect against climate-driven disasters 9/8/2022

New Zealand has released its first national plan to prepare for the floods, fires and rising seas it expects to be unleashed by the climate crisis in the coming years. ...more

Tears of joy as US bill clears Senate hurdle 8/8/2022

Democrats cried with joy and pumped their fists in the air after the US Senate finally approved a key plank of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda. ...more

'Very critical situation': Almost half of EU countries suffering from drought 8/8/2022

Almost half of European Union land is currently under a drought warning or more severe "alert" level, hampering agriculture, energy production and water supply, the European Commission has confirmed. ...more

U.S.-China diplomatic breakdown clouds outlook for global climate progress 8/8/2022

China's decision to halt bilateral talks on climate change with the United States has cast a cloud of doubt over whether the world can rally enough ambition to address global warming in time to avert its worst impacts. ...more

Wildfires are destroying California's forest carbon credit reserves, study says 8/8/2022

Carbon offsets generated from forests to counteract future climate-warming emissions from California's big polluters are rapidly being depleted as trees are ravaged by wildfire and disease, new research published on Friday suggests. ...more

Colombian deforestation unlikely to slow in 2022, say environmentalists 8/8/2022

Deforestation in Colombia shows no signs of abating in 2022 versus 2021, warned environmental groups this week, with destruction of the country's Amazon region increasing slightly through the end of July. ...more

World’s wildlife more at risk than realised - study 5/8/2022

The world's wildlife may be in more trouble than scientists have so far reported, new research published on Thursday suggests. ...more