The year 2024 was the first in which average global temperatures at the surface of the planet exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the majority of leading datasets.
Earth reached its hottest year on record in 2024, according to the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Service, the UK Met Office and Japan’s weather agency ...
More than 2,000 buildings destroyed and at least five people killed in “wildfires scorching communities across Los Angeles County”, and more climate news.
China is the world’s most populous nation and largest current emitter of greenhouse gases. How – and, crucially, when – this vast, complex nation fully decarbonises its surging economy is one of the ...
The UK’s electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, new Carbon Brief analysis shows, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade. This is because the UK ...
President Joe Biden has announced a “permanent stop” to new oil and gas drilling across more than 625m acres of coastal waters around the US, the New York Times reports. According to the newspaper, ...