Damian Carrington
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find
First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged → Read More
Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms – study
Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions of people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths → Read More
Chasm between climate action and scientific reality laid bare in UN stocktake
Rise in global emissions must be halted within two years to avoid the worst – and it can be done, says report → Read More
Nuclear bomb fallout chosen to define start of Anthropocene
Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet → Read More
UK should quit ‘climate-wrecking’ energy treaty, say official advisers
Climate Change Committee recommends leaving energy charter treaty, which critics say is ‘weaponised’ by fossil fuel firms → Read More
‘Revolutionary’ solar power cell innovations break key energy threshold
Next generation cells surpass limits of today’s cells and will accelerate rollout of cheaper, more efficient solar power → Read More
Climate-heating El Niño has arrived and threatens lives, declares UN
World Meteorological Organization warns of record temperatures and extreme heat in environmental ‘double whammy’ → Read More
The oil company CEO running the next UN climate change summit
The UN’s annual climate conference is being dogged by scandal months before it even begins. Environment editor Damian Carrington reports → Read More
El Niño: how the weather event is affecting global heating in 2023
Planet is being hit by double whammy of global heating and emerging El Niño → Read More
Thames Water pipe leaks at highest level in five years, FOI reveals
Water company to have regular meetings with environment secretary after failing to meet promised targets to fix leakage rates → Read More
Air pollution ‘aged’ hospital Covid patients by 10 years, study shows
Patients exposed to dirty air spent four days longer in hospital, the same impact as if they had been a decade older → Read More
Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’
World Bank says subsidies costing as much as $23m a minute must be repurposed to fight climate crisis → Read More
Turkmenistan moves towards plugging massive methane leaks
Central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating ‘super-emitter’ events in the world → Read More
Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit
Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say → Read More
‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails
Exclusive: UN conference president Sultan Al Jaber is also head of oil firm, which was consulted on how to respond to a media inquiry → Read More
Too late now to save Arctic summer ice, climate scientists find
Ice-free summers inevitable even with sharp emissions cuts and likely to result in more extreme heatwaves and floods → Read More
US deal could plug Turkmenistan’s colossal methane emissions
The central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating ‘super-emitter’ events in the world → Read More
Pesticide firms withheld brain toxicity studies from EU regulators, study finds
Exclusive: The same studies were submitted to US regulators and some are relevant to safety levels, the researchers say → Read More
Rock ‘flour’ from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows
Powder produced by ice sheets could be used to help tackle climate crisis when spread on farm fields → Read More
Global heating will push billions outside ‘human climate niche’
World is on track for 2.7C and ‘phenomenal’ human suffering, scientists warn → Read More