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Farmers warn food shortages are just 10 days away – the signs suggest they’ve already arrived As farmers sound the alarm about a growing food crisis, experts say that Britain's food insecurity needs to be treated as a growing national security risk. As climate change and conflict affect fragile supply chains, the warnings are becoming impossible to ignore, writes disaster planner Lucy Easthope

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

The climate and nature crisis threatens all aspects of British life, from national security to the food supply. Despite the scale of the risks now facing the UK, there has been no comprehensive national emergency briefing delivered to the public by the Government.

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

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

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.

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

In How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change serveert Jens Beckert ons een analyse van de klimaatcrisis als een kom havermout: voedzaam, degelijk en zonder poespas.

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

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.

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

Earth’s average temperature rose more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in 2024 for the first time – a critical threshold in the climate crisis. At the same time, major armed conflicts continue to rage in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. What should be increasingly clear is that war now needs to be understood as unfolding in the shadow of climate breakdown. The relationship between war and climate change is complex. But here are three reasons why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war.

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.

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