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Scientists know how to alter our atmosphere to try and fix climate change, but doing so could bring other potential unintended impacts

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

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).

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”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible damage pushes many basins beyond recovery

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

Melting glaciers, coastal areas wiped off the map and regular 40C heat in Europe. Climate experts warn the gloomy predictions of long term environmental change are no longer the future - they are already here. Last year was the third hottest on record, with the World Meteorological Organization this week warning that 2025 continued a run of “extraordinary” global temperatures. The EU has said the Paris climate agreement of 1.5C could be broken before 2030, a decade sooner than expected.

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

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

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

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

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