21 août 2025
Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
29 juin 2025
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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.
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”.
28 juin 2025
The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton
27 juin 2025
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
26 octobre 2024
If despair is the most unforgivable sin, then hope is surely the most abused virtue. That observation feels particularly apposite as we enter the Cop season, that time of United Nations megaconferences at the end of every year, when national leaders feel obliged to convince us the future will be better, despite growing evidence to the contrary.
23 octobre 2024
Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life
25 août 2024
The signs of weakening resilience raise concerns that the world’s greatest tropical forest – and biggest terrestrial carbon sink – is degrading towards a point of no return. It follows four supposedly “one-in-a-century” dry spells in less than 20 years, highlighting how a human-disrupted climate is putting unusually intense strains on trees and other plants, many of which are dying of dehydration.
17 avril 2024
Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds
10 avril 2024
Un mois de plus, un nouveau record de chaleur à l’échelle mondiale qui laisse les climatologues perplexes, espérant qu’il s’agit d’un phénomène lié à El Niño et non d’un symptôme d’une santé planétaire plus mauvaise que prévu. Les températures à la surface du globe en mars étaient supérieures de 0,1 °C au précédent record pour ce mois, établi en 2016, et de 1,68 °C à la moyenne préindustrielle, selon les données publiées mardi par le Copernicus Climate Change Service.
09 avril 2024
If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert
19 février 2024
Jonathan Watts Traduction Deepl Josette – The Guardian - Le mois de février est en passe de battre un nombre record de records de chaleur, selon les météorologues, car le réchauffement climatique d’origine humaine et le phénomène naturel El Niño font grimper les températures sur terre et dans les océans.
17 février 2024
Rapid ocean warming and unusually hot winter days recorded as human-made global heating combines with El Niño
09 février 2024
Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible
02 février 2024
Selon les chercheurs, la production actuelle détruit plus de valeur qu’elle n’en crée en raison des coûts médicaux et environnementaux.
29 janvier 2024
Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental costs, researchers say
28 août 2023
Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists
06 août 2023
Human-caused climate disruption and El Niño push temperature in mountains to 37C
22 juin 2023
Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems could collapse ‘very soon’, researchers warn