All news on the topic: Climate crisis

Brian Eno, Massive Attack and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie are among 211 artists calling on prime minister Andy Burnham to block plans for new oil drilling in the North Sea.

The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day peak, scientists have estimated. Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.

The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every country except the US and China, a study has found.

The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an "unfathomable" increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil, and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found.

Powerful radar system is providing new data on city’s subsidence, which experts hope will draw more attention to it.

A British advertising conglomerate has assisted oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP in spending an estimated $1.5bn (£1.1bn) on advertisements in the US since the 2015 Paris agreement to combat the climate crisis, a report shows.

Rachel Kyte has accumulated over 150,000 air miles in a year with trips to conferences such as COP30, Africa Energy Indaba Week in South Africa, and Clean Cooking Dialogue in Riyadh, at a cost of over £100,000.

Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker also called for support for the secondhand market, documents reveal.

A climate activist who served one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for a peaceful protest has won his appeal against deportation.

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.

A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has initiated legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.

As world leaders convene this week for the Paris Peace Forum, commemorating a decade since the significant climate accord aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, researchers are cautioning that numerous new and existing fossil fuel projects could drive the planet far beyond its remaining carbon budget.

Residents of a small Mississippi town are suing Drax Biomass after the company won a permit to become a “major source” of hazardous air pollution at a local wood pellet production plant.

Extreme weather events and rising seas are putting precious heritage sites around the world in harm’s way.

Shippers are accused of contributing to forest destruction driven by the beef industry.

The future is not looking bright for many UK seaside towns as the effects of climate change could drown them by 2050.

Luke Evans, whose work has been called ‘breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipment.

Woman jailed for M25 protest not allowed to continue home detention because electronic tags are too big

Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use

Corporations such as ExxonMobil and Blackstone also big funders of climate crisis, new trade union report finds

Oxfam says ‘commonsense solution’ would reduce emissions and raise urgently needed climate finance

Legislation makes it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint

Court rules against West Cumbria Mining’s fossil fuel development in Whitehaven

Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south