Guest post: Planned growth of UK airports not consistent with net-zero climate goal
Dr Declan Finney is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds’ Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS); and Dr Giulio Mattioli is...
Guest post: Air pollution and irrigation mask extremes of India’s 2019 heatwave
Dr Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Dr Gabriel Vecchi, Dr Flavio Lehner, Dr Friederike Otto, Dr Karsten Haustein, Dr Claudia Tebaldi, Dr Maarten van Aalst...
Cold-war spy photos reveal ‘doubling’ of glacier ice loss in Himalayas
The rate of glacier retreat in the Himalayas has doubled since the late 20th century, a new study finds.
By comparing modern-day satellite data to...
In-depth Q&A: Why Ireland is ‘nowhere near’ meeting its climate-change goals
Despite its comparatively small population, stalling efforts to tackle climate change mean Ireland contributes a disproportionate volume of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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More than half the world could see ‘record-setting heat’ every year by 2100
More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global...
In depth Q&A: The UK becomes first major economy to set net-zero climate goal
The UK is to raise its ambition on climate change by setting a legally binding target to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to “net-zero”...
In-depth: BP data reveals record CO2 emissions in 2018 driven by surging use of...
Last year saw record levels of CO2 emissions, gas and oil use, and installations of renewable energy, according to new global data from oil...
Northern hemisphere’s extreme heatwave in 2018 ‘impossible’ without climate change
Last summer’s unprecedented northern-hemisphere heatwave “could not have occurred without human-induced climate change”, a new study concludes.
Scientists are “virtually certain” that the three-month event...
Interactive: How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade
This interactive article shows how the UK has transformed its electricity supply in a decade – and how things are expected to continue changing.
To...
Healthcare in world’s largest economies ‘accounts for 4%’ of global emissions
CO2 emissions from healthcare in the world’s largest economies account for about 5% of their national carbon footprints, according to a new study.
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