Home
Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents
Children born after 2025 will experience three more years of brutally fire-conducive weather as global heating...
Climate crisis
Home
Science
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in...
Business
US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos
Some experts worry factors affecting wheat exports could push global food prices even higher than they are now
Technology
The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it
One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leader...
Science
The world’s rivers are at breaking point. Can we save them before it is too late?
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issu...
Science
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with c...
Science
Climate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study finds
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August
Home
Who are the 514 people accused of starting French wildfires and what motivates them?
Experts believe one-third of wildfires in France are set deliberately, with arson the biggest single cause of...
Home
Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which cont...