Climate

As the mercury climbs in the Greek capital and forest fires spark into life again, Athens’ chief heat officer worries about what summer will bring but tempers her fear with dreams of change in one of the world’s oldest named cities

Emissions and temperatures continue to rise, leading to increasingly radical research into limiting climate change. But are they safe?

Swallows can't exactly reflect on their actions. We, however, can think about if we're actually acting virtuously or not

Instead, the conservative government’s panicked U-turn on the windfall tax does the opposite

The government is pushing the idea that energy security means more North Sea oil and gas. It’s a myth

Dale Vince is selling his green energy firm Ecotricity to enter the world of politics. He tells MATT WITHERS why (if not necessarily how)

From climate change to Covid and now the Ukraine war. Everyone is feeling anxious – can we cope with any more?

With China's demand for seafood expected to triple by 2030, its fishing vessels have begun encroaching on Australia's neighbours to satisfy this hunger

The vicious conflict in Ukraine could lead to even more deaths from hunger far beyond the country’s borders as grain exports from the region grind to a halt and global food prices soar

After activists glued their hands to the Autobahn, our columnist explains why a well-run information campaign would do more for climate change than performative protests

The government’s abandonment of rail plans has left its levelling-up policy in tatters.

Our columnist argues how the timing of Germany's nuclear phase-out is irresponsible.

Buffeted by the pandemic, Eurostar faced collapse. With little thanks to the UK government, this link to the continent is revived.

The concept is fashionable yet controversial, exerting a romantic appeal on some and exerting deep atavistic fears in others. But at its essence, rewilding is a simple necessity.

The summit failed to offer any immediate hope to those on the front lines of climate change.

It's the most important conference on the planet, yet already its organisation is being labelled as farce in the making.

Global tensions mean self-interest as much as collaboration will be key to cracking climate change. 

Ahead of the Med9 event in Athens, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis shares his thoughts on the escalating climate and environmental crisis

As the US once again swelters through a record-breaking hot summer, climate change historian Alice Bell looks back at the events in mid-1988, when the debate over global warming decisively shifted

The country's tragic floods might have been expected to boost support for the Greens ahead of September's elections. But this doesn't appear to have happened

The UK is no longer a glowing example of tackling climate change - our carbon footprint is growing following Brexit

The “green Brexit” promised by the government has not been delivered, with weaker protections in areas such as nature and air quality, campaigners have said.

Fishing has overshadowed discussion of wider issues affecting the environment since Brexit

Warm words about climate action are one thing. But Brexit means it's likely all we will get is hot air. 

What would one mean, and how do we achieve it?

A new exhibition showcasing the works of Venetian artist Giovanni Antonio Canal, dubbed Canaletto, is set to open in Bath.  To begin when Covid restrictions permit, Canaletto: Painting Venice will run at the city’s Holburne Museum until September 5.   As Claudia Pritchard reports, such was Canaletto’s importance to our understanding and appreciation of the historic Italian city that his work is now helping assess its vulnerability […]

Coronavirus might have put it in the shade but, as Chloe Brimicombe reports, the globe also suffered from an extraordinary catalogue of extreme weather events in 2020. The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the climate […]

Tackling the climate emergency a political struggle needs to be won up against right-wing populism. RICHARD CALLAND says the new digital era provides an opportunity to do this. History may in due course record 2019 as the year in which the penny finally dropped about the climate emergency humanity faces. A sense of urgency was […]

WILL SELF on Naples and how our generation’s wake-up call on climate change is simply not enough to tackle the issue. One of the famous narrow streets in Italy. Picture: GettyImages – Credit: REDA&CO/Universal Images Group v My eldest son is heading off to Naples this week, to spend a few months in this storied […]

The urgency of the environmental cause is not just down to damage being caused, but the creeping fatalism that could overtake it, says ZOE WILLIAMS. More optimism is needed. It’s great when everyone agrees, right? We’ve had enough of the politics of division, the zero-sum atmosphere where nobody’s happy until their opponent has been obliterated. […]

Will former Remain campaigners now switch their attention to climate change activism? Green Party MEP CATHERINE ROWETT thinks not. Catherine Rowett MEP. Picture: Antony Kelly. – Credit: copyright ARCHANT 2017 Many of us who have spent the last few years fighting an increasingly desperate campaign for Remain are now struggling to find our feet in […]

Readers believe the Australian fires are a sign that more focus needs to go on climate change – and that Remainers can play a part in the fight. For over three years now the UK has, in effect, fiddled while Rome burned with endless talk about deals and borders and “taking back control”. Ignoring the […]

Images taken by a pioneering balloonist more than 100 years ago lay bare the impact of climate change on France’s biggest glacier, KIERAN BAXTER reports Like a one-man Google Earth, Swiss aviation pioneer Eduard Spelterini flew a gas-filled balloon from the French town of Chamonix to Switzerland on August 8, 1909 – a distance of […]