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Winter downpours also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warn

‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns

Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila

Nous avons demandé à 380 climatologues de renom ce qu’ils pensaient de l’avenir… Ils sont terrifiés, mais déterminés à continuer à se battre. Exclusif : Une enquête menée auprès de centaines d’experts révèle une image terrifiante de l’avenir, mais ils préviennent que la lutte contre le changement climatique ne doit pas être abandonnée.

Een enquête van de Britse krant The Guardian onder 380 vooraanstaande klimaatwetenschappers levert ontnuchterende resultaten op. Amper 1 op de 20 gelooft nog in het meest optimistische scenario. Toch moet de wereld blijven strijden tegen elke fractie opwarming.

Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Editorial: Top experts believe global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. That frightening prediction must spur us to action

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants at industrial facilities involved in the disposal of unprofitable natural gas, known in the industry as flaring.

Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders

Marcus Decker dared to protest the climate crisis and was punished. Now he could be deported, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds

The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030

If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert

Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled

Environmental pledges are being shredded to please agribusiness and appease extremists. It’s a terrible mistake, says environmental writer Arthur Neslen

World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds

Dr Sarah Benn has long been concerned about the climate crisis, diligently recycling until she was “blue in the face”. But the rise of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in 2019 inspired her and her husband to go further. “We thought: well, if we don’t do it then who else is going to?”

Activist accuses Sweden of being ‘very good at greenwashing’ as group sits outside building’s main entrance. Greta Thunberg has accused Sweden of being “very good at greenwashing” as she staged a protest along with about 50 other activists outside her home country’s parliament.

Dangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says

Scientists express concern over health impacts, with another study finding particles in arteries

In Munich I heard both Ukrainians and Alexei Navalny’s widow tell us why Putin must be defeated, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Rapid ocean warming and unusually hot winter days recorded as human-made global heating combines with El Niño

Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible

Exclusive: Meeting took place days after BP reported record profits while households were squeezed by high energy bills

In the UK and around the world, those who challenge rich corporations are being hounded and crushed with ever-more inventive penalties, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental costs, researchers say

Grâce à leur prix modique, les nouilles instantanées ont conquis les rues et les troquets africains. Mais ce plat lyophilisé est un produit ultratransformé qui présente des risques pour la santé, avertit “The Guardian”.

Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than was previously thought. Some scientists are concerned that this additional source of freshwater pouring into the north Atlantic might mean a collapse of the ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is closer to being triggered, with severe consequences for humanity.

New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.

Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows

James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s

Ce sigle effrayant, pour “Wounded child, no surviving family”, utilisé par les travailleurs humanitaires reflète la réalité d’un conflit dans lequel 40 % des victimes seraient des mineurs, rappelle “The Guardian”. Et la situation ne peut qu’empirer.

Avec la disparition de son patrimoine matériel, de ses universitaires, de ses artistes et même de ses cimetières, c’est toute une nation, avec sa population, sa culture et son identité propres, qui est en train d’être effacée dans l’enclave palestinienne, écrit la chroniqueuse Nesrine Malik dans ce texte émouvant.

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms

‘We need you,’ says Scientist Rebellion, which includes authors of IPCC reports on climate breakdown, as diplomats meet for Cop28

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’

It’s obscene that the super-rich can criminalise protest, while they burn the world’s resources and remain untouched by the law, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”. Little was known about the oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

Global fall averaged 4.2% between 2010 and 2022 but would have been far more if vehicle sizes stayed same

Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more than double last decade’s annual average

World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning

When Rishi Sunak granted 27 new North Sea licences this week, he wasn’t thinking about the survival of the living world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Exclusive: UK climate campaign group Possible calls for ‘polluter pays’ tax based on vehicle size

UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terrorists

The renowned US scientist’s new book examines 4bn years of climate history to conclude we are in a ‘fragile moment’ but there is still time to act

Maar liefst 98 procent van de Europeanen leeft in een gebied met een schadelijke luchtkwaliteit. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek in opdracht van de Britse krant The Guardian.

Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

Human activity has caused species groups to go extinct 35 times faster than they have over the past 500 years

Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say

First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged

Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans

Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness

Forecast downturn still ‘nowhere near steep enough’ to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, says watchdog

Heatwaves, wildfires and floods are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, leading climate scientists say

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

Cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet

Link to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers

Human-caused climate disruption and El Niño push temperature in mountains to 37C

The celebrated science broadcaster and environmental activist says we have to stop elevating the economy and politics over the state of our world

Antarctica’s sea ice levels are plummeting as extreme weather events happen faster than scientists predicted

Exclusive: Long list of ‘sensitive’ topics for petrostate include oil and gas production, emissions and Yemen war crimes

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

les scientifiques du climat sont horrifiés et exaspérés par les prévisions mondiales. Par 7 experts du Climat - Alors que l’hémisphère nord brûle, les experts ressentent une profonde tristesse – et du ressentiment – en redoutant ce qui attend l’été australien. Le Guardian Australia a demandé à sept éminents climatologues de décrire ce qu’ils ressentent alors qu’une grande partie de l’hémisphère nord est engloutie par des vagues de chaleur torrides et qu’un certain nombre de records climatiques terrestres et océaniques mondiaux sont battus.

As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and resentment – while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer

After hottest day ever, researchers say global heating may mean future of crop failures on land and ‘silent dying’ in the oceans

le scientifique qui a tiré la sonnette d’alarme sur le climat dans les années 80 annonce le pire pour l’avenir. James Hansen, qui a témoigné devant le Congrès sur le réchauffement de la planète en 1988, affirme que le monde s’approche d’une « nouvelle limite climatique ».

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions

Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Three brush fires burning in rural areas across Riverside county, where 1,000 homes are under evacuation orders

Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet

Many of those who drowned near Greece last month were escaping environmental crises in Pakistan, says author Fatima Bhutto

Applications to mine the seabed in our ocean commons can be made from 9 July, says Guy Standing, author of The Blue Commons

Emmanuel Macron’s government is at least doing the bare minimum to avert the planetary crisis – and putting the UK to shame, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot