World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally…

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‘Like a 40-metre pizza’: the seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a cost

A white metal platform on the surface of the Pacific Ocean faces another, smaller one some distance away. Sam Donohue stands on the big platform,…

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Bank group accused of exploiting loopholes and ‘greenwashing’ in climate pledge

Banks that have signed up to a global climate pledge, led by Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, can still invest…

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Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen? | Simon Lewis

Amid the triple crisis of the war in Ukraine, the still-raging pandemic and escalating inflation, climate scientists have just pulled off a truly impressive achievement.…

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Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and economic turmoil

Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and soaring energy prices. The third…

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Q&A: Has the IPCC’s bleak warning of climate breakdown been heard?

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the dangerous impacts of climate breakdown are already being felt and are accelerating rapidly. Has…

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Life in the Arctic: the reindeer herders struggling against the climate crisis – video

As the arctic warms four times faster than the global average, Europe’s only indigenous population is under threat. For centuries, the Sámi people have herded reindeer…

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Ratchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played out

As weary delegates trudged into the Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday, few realised what a mountain they still had…

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