Candidates are being nominated to take over as the UN secretary general, when António Guterres steps down after nearly a decade in the role at the end of 2026. Since becoming the ninth secretary ...

New research finds that climate change has been responsible for around 4km – roughly a fifth – of the Pine Island glacier’s ...

HOTTEST EVER: The UK broke its temperature record for June twice this week, while France recorded its hottest day ever two ...

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The World Bank has abandoned a target for 45% of the funding it gives developing countries to be “climate finance”.

Twice as many animals died due to heat stress en route to slaughterhouses during the UK’s record-hot summer in 2025 compared ...

Clean power added more to global energy supplies than any other source in 2025, according to the latest Energy Institute statistical review of world energy. Outside the Covid pandemic, it was also the ...

Dangerous, record-breaking heat could thwart 4 July plans across much of the north-east US this weekend, reports the Associated Press.

The World Bank has announced that it will “retire” its goal to devote 45% of its annual lending to projects with climate co-benefits, reports Reuters. The newswire adds that the lender will extend its ...

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