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Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy security

As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all.

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis

Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’

Un État ou une entreprise peuvent-ils influencer le GIEC ? En théorie, c’est impossible, et pourtant. 11 chercheurs liés à l’Arabie saoudite figurent parmi les auteurs du prochain rapport de l’institution internationale, chargée de faire état des connaissances scientifiques sur le réchauffement climatique. Une enquête menée par l’Humanité, en partenariat avec le Guardian et quatre autres médias européens, révèle ces cas de conflits d’intérêts au sein de l’un des trois groupes de travail du GIEC.

Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops

One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worse

Ce qui ressemble à l’avant-dernier épisode excessivement dramatique d’une série de science-fiction sur l’apocalypse provoquée par l’IA est désormais notre réalité. Mardi (8 sept 2026), un ancien chercheur d’OpenAI a quitté son poste chez Anthropic, avertissant que « ni l’une ni l’autre des deux entreprises n’agit de manière responsable » et que « les personnes qui construisent l’IA pensent sincèrement qu’elle pourrait tous nous tuer d’ici la fin de la décennie. Ce n’est pas un coup de marketing ». En tant que personne qui suit les risques liés à l’IA depuis des années, cette nouvelle ne m’a pas surpris. Mais la vague d’inquiétude suscitée par cette déclaration montre qu’un public beaucoup plus large est enfin confronté, pour la première fois, à cette situation absurde.

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies.

Les systèmes d'intelligence artificielle sont entrainés sur les comportements humains qu'ils lisent et regardent/écoutent. Dès lors, le mensonge est une partie intégrante de leurs stratégies. Leur capacité (à mentir et à masquer leurs mensonges) risque de nous dépasser assez rapidement.

Lethal temperatures ​and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding ​action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

Exclusive: Federal government court filings claim internal company documents included warnings about products being toxic

This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever

Exclusive: As wildfires rage, Frank Elderson says more work needed to assess risk from collapse of ecosystem services

Some have called for Nuremberg-style trials against big oil. But there are laws already on the books to describe companies’ conduct

Exclusive: Global investigation reveals 235 lawsuits have been brought against governments in five countries since 2010

Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

Des économistes avertissent qu’un cycle météorologique de type « super » El Niño cette année pourrait provoquer un grave choc sur les prix alimentaires mondiaux, dont les effets pourraient se faire sentir jusqu’en 2028. Alors que la guerre en Iran fait grimper les prix alimentaires mondiaux à leur plus haut niveau depuis trois ans, les économistes estiment que les chaînes d’approvisionnement sont confrontées à « deux chocs simultanés », alimentés par des phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes liés au réchauffement climatique.

Members of parliament have demanded full publication of an explosive report by the UK’s spy leaders that found the collapse of ecosystems overseas would have catastrophic consequences for the UK’s national security, warning that the UK has “no future” if the findings are not urgently acted on.

Weather cycle threatens harvests worldwide, adding to inflation already fuelled by the Iran war

European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

Drug-resistant bacteria are no longer confined to hospital settings but are spreading into communities in every country

Une étude révèle également que l’humidité élevée expose les habitants de centaines de villes au pire stress thermique jamais enregistré.

Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

Nearly every indicator of climate change is flashing red. But we still hold the tools available to bring the planet back into balance

Four months into US oil blockade, Cubans see island drained as state electric company fights to provide even a few hours of power a day Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana - The doctor called from the darkness, a shadowy figure sitting on the stoop of his apartment building. “I want to tell you we’ve been four days without light,” he said. “And without electricity, water is also a problem. And there are mosquitoes everywhere.”

Cet article rapporte la difficulté du secteur manufacturier en Grande Bretagne à faire face à l’augmentation du cout de l'énergie. Dans l'ombre de cet article apparait ce qui sera la réalité à un moment donné, sans pétrole bon marché, l'industrie manufacturière ne peut pas fonctionner dans les conditions actuelles. Le contrat social sera rompu et il faudra réinventer une manière de vivre ensemble. La situation en Grande Bretagne est peut-être exacerbée par le Brexit et la situation insulaire mais elle est l'avant-poste de ce qui attend une bonne part du monde industrialisé, à moins de relancer le charbon avec toutes les conséquences sur le dérèglement climatique et la santé des personnes que nous connaissons.

Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration

The system of ocean current that moves heat in the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate. Today’s monitoring of it may be discontinued...

L’humanité peut améliorer les niveaux de vie, réduire les inégalités et maintenir le réchauffement climatique en dessous d’une hausse de 2 °C, selon une vision ambitieuse de la survie de la planète rapportée la semaine dernière par The Guardian. À une époque marquée par l’angoisse écologique, c’est une affirmation remarquablement optimiste. Cet optimisme provient du Global Justice Report, élaboré par le World Inequality Lab de Thomas Piketty. […] Ce rapport va à contre-courant de l’époque actuelle. La démagogie anti-immigration, le retour en grâce des combustibles fossiles, les attaques contre le multilatéralisme et la captation du pouvoir par les milliardaires s’opposent tous à la capacité redistributive de l’État que le rapport juge nécessaire. Pourtant, l’équipe du professeur Piketty affirme que la décarbonation, la « sobriété » et l’égalité peuvent permettre à la majorité de mener une vie agréable.

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world, from UN agencies to grassroots movements. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it

The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is “much faster” than expected. Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work in AI, said there was a “10% to 20%” chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three decades.

The Global Justice Report offers a hopeful bargain: tax extreme wealth and replace consumer excess with social and economic security for all

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

La construction d'un datacenter en Utah a entrainé une opposition farouche des habitants. La course à l'IA repose la question de l'équilibre entre technologie et ressources limitées en eau, en terres arables et terres rares, en électricité. De nombreux datacenter vont utiliser des énergies fossiles.

Weather models project a potentially strong El Niño this year, which could spell disaster for heatwave-hit India, drench China and hurt agriculture across south-east Asia

World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research

Exclusive: Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying. The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said. The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).

Norway’s energy minister says country has a ‘responsibility’ to address shortfalls caused by wars in Ukraine and Middle East

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Analysis of six extreme heatwaves found when temperature and humidity were accounted for, all were potentially deadly for older people

The world has become well versed in the importance of the strait of Hormuz to the world’s energy flows, but attention is increasingly turning to its vital role in another market – the fertiliser on which harvests depend. A third of the global trade in raw materials for fertiliser passes through the maritime choke point, which is also the route for 20% of shipments of natural gas, which is required to make it.

Lorsque James Prescott Joule a donné son nom à une unité d’énergie, il n’aurait pas pu prévoir les calculs alarmants d’aujourd’hui. L’unité principale de l’effondrement climatique est le zettajoule…

Anti-authoritarian rallies, taking place in all 50 states plus 16 countries, are expected to be biggest in US history

Wael Sawan warns of pressure on diesel and petrol if strait of Hormuz does not reopen to oil and gas shipping

Nous laissons les grandes entreprises jouer avec nos vies. Agissez maintenant, sinon la nourriture pourrait venir à manquerLa fragilité du système alimentaire mondial m’emplit d’effroi – et la guerre avec l’Iran a révélé à quel point il est proche de l’effondrement.

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is

When James Prescott Joule lent his name to a unit of energy, he could not have foreseen today’s alarming calculations

Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face

Trump a lancé une attaque sans précédent contre l’environnement. Où est la riposte ? Les climatosceptiques s’attendaient à plus de résistance face à l’offensive en faveur des énergies fossiles. Mais les démocrates, les milliardaires et les militants sont restés silencieux. ...

Ten million people left without power in latest of outages that sparked violent protest last weekend

Le réchauffement climatique continu pourrait engager une trajectoire irréversible en déclenchant des points de bascule climatiques, mais la plupart des gens n’en ont pas conscience. Le monde est plus proche qu’on ne le pensait d’un « point de non-retour » au-delà duquel un emballement du réchauffement climatique ne pourrait plus être arrêté, ont averti des scientifiques.

L’économie mondiale doit cesser de céder aux « désirs frivoles des ultra-riches », affirme un expert de l’ONU Olivier De Schutter estime qu’un nouvel agenda économique est nécessaire pour faire face aux crises de l’inégalité croissante et de l’effondrement écologique.

The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

Seven Ukrainians arrested and money-laundering investigation launched in latest spat between Kyiv and Budapest

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback?

Fears US-Israeli onslaught could lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpile

Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

Extinction Rebellion says some members have been visited by agents claiming to be FBI amid Trump’s threats toward liberal groups

Des modèles économiques défaillants pourraient faire s’effondrer l’économie mondiale à cause de la crise climatique, préviennent des experts. Les États et les institutions financières utilisent des modèles qui ignorent les chocs liés aux événements météorologiques extrêmes et aux points de bascule climatiques.

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

I know it’s almost impossible to turn your eyes away from the Trump show, but that’s the point. His antics, ever-grosser and more preposterous, are designed to keep him in our minds, to crowd out other issues. His insatiable craving for attention is a global-threat multiplier. You can’t help wondering whether there’s anything he wouldn’t do to dominate the headlines.

La production alimentaire et les combustibles fossiles causent 5 milliards de dollars de dégâts environnementaux par heure Un rapport du PNUE affirme que mettre fin à ces dommages est essentiel à la transformation mondiale nécessaire « avant que l’effondrement ne devienne inévitable ».

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’

Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared. The overuse and pollution of water must be tackled urgently, the report’s lead author said, because no one knew when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion. All life depends on water but the report found many societies had long been using water faster than it could be replenished annually in rivers and soils, as well as over-exploiting or destroying long-term stores of water in aquifers and wetlands.

L’effondrement de la biodiversité menace la sécurité du Royaume-Uni, avertissent les chefs du renseignement […] La destruction des écosystèmes va accroître les pénuries alimentaires, le désordre et les migrations de masse, des effets déjà visibles.

As climate and geopolitics shocks bite, countries are rebuilding food buffers. The UK clings to neoliberal ideas while households pay the price

Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of Nato Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined. But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI

Nous vivons une époque de polycrises. Si vous vous sentez coincé·e, vous n’êtes pas seul·e. Je n’avais pas pleinement compris à quel point l’idée d’un avenir meilleur me soutenait – aujourd’hui, comme beaucoup d’autres, j’ai du mal à être productive

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone. I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive

Bronwen Maddox says Trump’s rejection of international law leaves UK and Europe facing huge dilemma

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas

Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans

The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival

Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost

From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

Les réserves d’eau de l’Europe s’assèchent en raison du dérèglement climatique Des scientifiques de l’UCL constatent que de vastes zones du sud de l’Europe s’assèchent, avec des conséquences « de grande envergure » […] D’immenses pans des réserves d’eau européennes sont en train de s’assécher, révèle une nouvelle analyse basée sur deux décennies de données satellitaires, montrant une diminution des stocks d’eau douce en Europe du Sud et centrale, de l’Espagne et de l’Italie jusqu’à la Pologne et certaines régions du Royaume-Uni.

Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

Compromis, mesures volontaires et absence de mention des combustibles fossiles : points clés de l’accord de la COP30 […] Le sommet des Nations unies sur le climat COP30 a fait avancer la lutte contre la crise climatique et les dommages qu’elle cause déjà aux vies et aux moyens de subsistance. Mais les mesures convenues constituent des pas en avant, plutôt que les bonds en avant nécessaires.

Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions

A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps

Une analyse magistrale de 5 000 ans de civilisation soutient qu’un effondrement mondial est imminent si les inégalités ne sont pas éliminées. […] Nous ne pouvons pas fixer une date pour la fin du monde, mais en examinant les 5.000 ans de [civilisation], nous pouvons comprendre les trajectoires auxquelles nous sommes confrontés aujourd’hui et l’autodestruction est la plus probable », déclare le Dr Luke Kemp du Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (Centre d’étude des risques existentiels) de l’université de Cambridge (*).

Exclusive interview with ex-US vice-president at Cop30 also reveals his hope around much-maligned climate summit

Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling

Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

US president’s son-in-law was instrumental in getting deal – which could bring him huge windfall if plan to redevelop Gaza ever comes to fruition […] For a man with no formal role in the White House, Jared Kushner last week literally took centre-stage as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East. As the administration took a victory lap for hammering out a Gaza ceasefire last week, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, stood in Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, addressing a feverish crowd that had booed the mention of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and later broke into chants of: “Thank You Trump!”

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

The planet is nearing dangerous limits. Yet progress on clean energy shows what’s possible. With political will, cooperation can still avert the worst of the climate crisis

EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’ […] The European way of life is being jeopardised by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules. The continent has made “important progress” in cutting planet-heating pollution, according to the European Environment Agency, but the death of wildlife and breakdown of the climate are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy.

Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages, and calls on member countries to punish those responsible

Une commission d’enquête des Nations unies a désormais confirmé ce que les organisations israéliennes, palestiniennes et internationales de défense des droits humains, ainsi que de nombreux spécialistes du génocide, affirmaient déjà : la guerre menée par Israël à Gaza équivaut à un génocide. La commission estime que les massacres, les attaques contre les infrastructures vitales, la famine, les déplacements de population et le refus de soins médicaux répondent à la définition juridique du crime le plus grave de l’histoire. Elle conclut que l’intention génocidaire est « la seule conclusion raisonnable » à tirer des déclarations des dirigeants israéliens et du comportement de leurs forces à Gaza.

Legal analysis has accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention

A UN commission has found Israel’s war in Gaza ranks among history’s greatest crimes. The UK government must stop hiding behind legal fictions and recognise the reality

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded missionEarlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process.

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testing

Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction

The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

Some experts tee up public comment on EPA report calling fossil fuel concerns overblown, as others fast-track review

Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’

Exclusive: Increasingly extreme weather a threat to production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere

Exclusive: Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79% of traffic if results appear below Google Overview

Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling

António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels

Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

Research in Chile suggests climate crisis makes eruptions more likely and explosive, and warns of Antarctica risk

Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas iceberg

Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the next generation may not see their glory because so many reefs are now “flickering out across the world”.

For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return. Working first at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and more recently at the University of São Paulo, he is a global authority on tropical forests and how they could be restored.

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

A subreddit tracking apocalyptic news in a calm, logical way comforts users who believe the end The threat of nuclear war, genocide in Gaza, ChatGPT reducing human cognitive ability, another summer of record heat. Every day brings a torrent of unimaginable horror. It used to be weeks between disasters, now we’re lucky to get hours.

Pourquoi la guerre nucléaire, et non la crise climatique, est la plus grande menace qui pèse sur l’humanité, selon Mark Lynas Mark Lynas a passé des décennies à faire pression pour que l’on agisse sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, mais il affirme aujourd’hui que la guerre nucléaire est une menace encore plus grande.

Iran’s parliament approved a measure to close the vital global trade route, through which more than a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through daily

New data from Nasa has revealed a dramatic rise in the intensity of weather events such as droughts and floods over the past five years.The steepness of the rise was not foreseen. The researchers say they are amazed and alarmed by the latest figures from the watchful eye of Nasa’s Grace satellite, which tracks environmental changes in the planet.

False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future

Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

Les scientifiques ont déclaré aujourd’hui que les océans de la planète sont en plus mauvaise santé qu’on ne le pensait, tout en avertissant qu’une mesure clé montre que nous « manquons de temps » pour protéger les écosystèmes marins. L’acidification des océans, souvent appelée le « jumeau maléfique » de la crise climatique, est causée par l’absorption rapide du dioxyde de carbone par les océans, où il réagit avec les molécules d’eau, entraînant une baisse du pH de l’eau de mer. Elle endommage les récifs coralliens et d’autres habitats océaniques et, dans les cas extrêmes, peut dissoudre les coquilles des créatures marines.

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat Climate breakdown is usually held up as the biggest, most urgent threat humans pose to the future of the planet today. But what if there was another, greater, human-made threat that could snuff out not only human civilisation, but practically the entire biosphere, in the blink of an eye?

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new contentA major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired, the Guardian has learned.

Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding

There’s frustration among researchers that falling pH levels in seas around the globe are not being taken seriously enough, and that until the buildup of CO2 is addressed, the consequences for marine life will be devastating

La pandémie et les lois sévères ont étouffé les mouvements climatiques tels que nous les connaissions. Préparez-vous à un nouveau type d’action. […] Le mouvement a remporté des victoires impressionnantes. Sa première exigence, « dire la vérité », a été essentiellement honorée lorsque le Royaume-Uni est devenu le premier pays au monde à déclarer officiellement une urgence climatique, quelques jours après la fin de la rébellion d’avril. Le mouvement a également suscité un sentiment d’urgence parmi le public.

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

On 21 April 2019, I was on Waterloo Bridge in London with my younger siblings. Around us were planters full of flowers where there were once cars, and people singing. This was the spring iteration of Extinction Rebellion, when four bridges in London were held by protesters. My siblings, then 14, had been going out on school strike inspired by Greta Thunberg, and wanted to see her speak.

Toxic pollution from wildfires has infiltrated the homes of more than a billion people a year over the last two decades, according to new research. The climate crisis is driving up the risk of wildfires by increasing heatwaves and droughts, making the issue of wildfire smoke a “pressing global issue”, scientists said.

Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes. The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study.

The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.

Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heat

Une majorité silencieuse de la population mondiale souhaite une action climatique plus forte. Il est temps de se réveiller. Environ 89 % des citoyens souhaitent que leurs gouvernements fassent davantage pour lutter contre la crise climatique, mais ils ne savent pas qu’ils constituent la majorité. Le Guardian s’associe à des dizaines de rédactions du monde entier pour lancer le projet 89 % et mettre en évidence le fait que la grande majorité de la population mondiale souhaite une action en faveur du climat.

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

A superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.

Microplastics have been found for the first time in human ovary follicular fluid, raising a new round of questions about the ubiquitous and toxic substances’ potential impact on women’s fertility. The new peer-reviewed research published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety checked for microplastics in the follicular fluid of 18 women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment at a fertility clinic in Salerno, Italy, and detected them in 14.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online [...] The report recommended that if global red meat eating was cut by 50%, the “planetary health diet” would provide nutritious food to all while tackling the harms caused by animal agriculture, which accounts for over 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. It suggested individuals – particularly in wealthy countries – should increase their consumption of nuts, pulses and other plant-based foods while cutting meat and sugar from their diets.

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial The stunning $667m verdict against Greenpeace last week is a direct attack on the climate movement, Indigenous peoples and the first amendment. The North Dakota case is so deeply flawed – at its core, the trial was really about crushing dissent – that I believe there is a good chance it will be reversed on appeal and ultimately backfire against the Energy Transfer pipeline company.

Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systemsA single researcher with a desktop computer will be able to deliver accurate weather forecasts using a new AI weather prediction approach that is tens of times faster and uses thousands of times less computing power than conventional systems.

Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US. The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.

His Royal Highness King Godwin Bebe Okpabi has carried bottles of water drawn from the wells of his homeland in the Niger delta to the high court in London. For the past three and a half weeks, lawyers for Shell have argued at the high court that their client cannot be held responsible for an environmental catastrophe in Ogale, which has suffered from decades of spills and pollution from oil extraction.

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

As fossil fuel interests attack climate accountability litigation, environmental advocates have sounded a new warning that they are pursuing a path that would destroy all future prospects for such cases. Nearly 200 advocacy groups have urged Democratic representatives to “proactively and affirmatively” reject potential industry attempts to obtain immunity from litigation.

Donald Trump’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy

Exclusive: Medics more sleep deprived now than during Covid crisis amid staff shortages and surging demand

JD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president. But his starring role in Friday’s blowup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy – where he played a cross between Trump’s bulldog and a tech bro Iago – may mark the moment that the postwar alliance between Europe and the US finally collapsed.

The tiny former Soviet republic’s determination not to be cowed by the Kremlin could provide a template for the west on how to hold back the tide of subversion and corruption

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump’s return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil

Concerns raised as $10bn Bezos Earth Fund halts funding for Science Based Targets initiative, which monitors companies’ decarbonisation

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole

Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

Elon Musk has achieved astonishing power in Trump’s administration – and spent the weekend wielding it

The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study. It found a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried out between 1997 and 2024. The researchers also found the tiny particles in liver and kidney samples.

A panel of international scientists has moved their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, tensions in other world hotspots, military applications of artificial intelligence and the climate crisis as factors underlying the risks of global catastrophe.

Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders

In 1919, at the height of a global crisis that resulted from the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the devastation of the first world war, and the collapse of Europe’s great continental empires, Irish writer William Butler Yeats penned his famed warning to humanity, mourning the end of the old world: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”

The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each year as a result of “suboptimal temperatures” even under the most optimistic scenario for cutting planet-heating pollution. The hottest plausible scenario they considered showed a net increase of 80,000 temperature-related deaths a year.

The world’s addiction to fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein’s monster sparing nothing and no one”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. “Our fossil fuel addiction is a Frankenstein’s monster, sparing nothing and no one. All around us, we see clear signs that the monster has become master,”

Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies Helena Horton, Sam Bright and Clare Carlile Wed 22 Jan 2025 13.01 CET Last modified on Wed 22 Jan 2025 14.27 CET Climate science deniers from a US-based thinktank have been working with rightwing politicians in Europe to campaign against environmental policies, the Guardian can reveal. MEPs have been accused of “rolling out the red carpet for climate deniers” to give them a platform in the European parliament, amid warnings of a “revival of grotesque climate denialism”.

The 29-year-old was arrested by City of London police after activists said they had cut the cables to insurance company offices in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Sheffield on Monday. In a press release, the group, which calls itself Shut the System, said it had targeted insurers “due to their critical role underpinning the fossil fuel economy through underwriting contracts and investments”.

As authorities declared 2024 the hottest on record, a key private sector climate alliance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) abandoned a requirement that members be aligned to the Paris agreement. That was followed by a network of net zero asset managers suspending work, and deleting from its website its statement of commitments that members must adopt, after BlackRock, the biggest of them all, quit its ranks.

Shifting responsibility to consumers minimises the role of energy industry and policymakers, University of Sydney research suggests

Wildfires that blazed around the world in 2024 helped to drive a record annual leap in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, surprising scientists. The data shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather.

he global economy could face 50% loss in gross domestic product (GDP) between 2070 and 2090 from the catastrophic shocks of climate change unless immediate action by political leaders is taken to decarbonise and restore nature, according to a new report The stark warning from risk management experts the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) hugely increases the estimate of risk to global economic wellbeing from climate change impacts such as fires, flooding, droughts, temperature rises and nature breakdown.

Britain’s crackdown on climate protest is setting “a dangerous precedent” around the world and undermining democratic rights, the UK director of Human Rights Watch has said. In the UK “laws criminalising protests undermine democratic rights”, the NGO says in its latest annual world report, published on Thursday, adding that in the past year “the UK continued to crack down on and criminalise climate protests”.