Experts warn that the EU’s interim climate targets are being ‘undermined’ by a loophole that comes into effect in 2036. The EU has been accused of “weakening its climate leadership” after greenlighting an interim emissions target for 2040. Last week, the European Council formally adopted the amended European climate law. It means by 2040, member […]

“Winning for this species might mean losing for another species,” one scientist warns. The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it’s usually bad news for species that depend on each other – like flowers blooming too early and pollinating bees arriving too late. But researchers have found the rare critter that’s getting […]

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), working with international collaborators, have discovered that ocean temperature patterns play a key role in limiting how widely droughts spread across the globe. Their findings, published in Communications Earth & Environment, are based on climate records spanning 1901-2020. The analysis shows that synchronized droughts typically affect only […]

Wildfires sweeping through the vast boreal forests of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia could be having a larger impact on the climate than scientists once believed. A new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley suggests these northern fires may release far more carbon into the atmosphere than current estimates indicate. The reason is that […]

Heatwaves, drought, wildfire risk and El Niño are compounding to create a dangerous cocktail of climate change. Heatwaves that lead to sudden and damaging drought are spreading across the globe at an accelerating rate, highlighting how climate change-fuelled extremes can build dangerously off each other, a new study found. Researchers from South Korea and Australia […]