The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.

Extreme heat caused by this year's "super-El Niño" could result in as many as 451,000 excess deaths across the ​globe in the six months through February 2027, ‌researchers with the University of Chica...

Short film about scientists taking direct action for the climate.

How Rewilding can tackle the climate crisis

An EU export ban on Dutch tech giant ASML’s machines could force the pause we all need, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

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The first conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (Santa Marta, Colombia; April, 2026), co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, convened representatives from 57 nations to advance a just...

Provocation · Audrey Tang on Replacing the Logic of Maximization With an Ethic of Care in Democracy's Operating System

The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...

How the good-news hunger headlines you are seeing about the state of global hunger are hiding the new acute hunger numbers and famines that aid cuts are causing right now.

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

Whatever it is that you personally care about: it will be affected by climate change and nature loss. As David Boyd put it: “I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong wi...

With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

A striking new visualization maps every El Niño and La Niña since 1979 — nearly five decades of the ocean breathing warm, then cool, then warm again. And it lands at a pivotal moment: World Meteorolog...

An open letter to the reader who feels the climate case is overstated

Extreme heat hits Europe — the US is next

Top 10% generate climate and biodiversity damage bill that exceeds economies of most countries, say researchers

As El Niño develops this year, scientists are increasingly confident it could be one of the strongest on record with global consequences, as Simon King explains.

We dropped the torch. They picked it up.

Sie leitet eine indische Gewerkschaft, die 3,7 Millionen selbst­ständige Frauen unterstützt.

Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

Hitze und Wind setzen unseren Äckern zu. Aber eine simple Idee schafft Abhilfe.