The Guardian • global warming
Issue #2180
Africa climate crisis alert: 1.5ºC limit ‘shattered’
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared that the Africa climate crisis demands immediate global action, during the opening of the 39th Ordinary Session of the...
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Issue #2200
Europe and the cost of climate inaction
The 2026 European heatwave is on track to exceed Europe’s previous heat events. While much has been said in the media about the human costs...
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Issue #2112
GREEN NOTES
After more than 4 decades of struggle the Mirarr traditional owners have won a ban on mining of Jabiluka uranium deposits. The Northern Territory government,...
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Issue #2142
GREEN NOTES
Extreme and costly weather events continue to have a deadly and destructive impact on people, our biosphere, and the planet. 2024 was the second consecutive...
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Issue #2114
GREEN NOTES
After considerable campaigning by climate scientists and environmentalists Google took an important step by demonetising the Heartland Institute by removing paid ads. Youtube is a...
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Issue #2182
GREEN NOTES
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time, thanks to climate change making the environment more hospitable. The three specimens of Culiseta annulata...
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Issue #2108
GREEN NOTES
Temperatures continue to rise, breaking records on a monthly basis accompanied by an increase in catastrophic weather events. In a paper published in the Proceedings...
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Issue #2150
GREEN NOTES
The COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference is to be held in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula...
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Issue #2116
GREEN NOTES
Under the Paris Agreement, governments set voluntary commitments for action on climate change with the aim of limiting climate warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial...
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Issue #2158
GREE NOTES
Extreme weather events are on the rise with no continent spared. Massive flooding, cyclones, out-of-control wildfires, drought, and extreme heat are taking a huge toll...
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Issue #2106
GREEN NOTES
Each of the past 12 months from June 2023 to May 2024 has set a new global record temperature for the time of year. That...
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Issue #2124
GREEN NOTES
In Spain torrential rain has battered the eastern region of Valencia, and taken the lives of hundreds of people. It has swept away bridges, buildings,...
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Issue #2152
GREEN NOTES
Extreme weather events are no longer ‘one-in-a-hundred-year’ or ‘one-in-five-hundred-year’ events. They are becoming more frequent and more extreme with records constantly being broken. Yet the...
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Issue #2131
GREEN NOTES
The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a liveable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewables-based...
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Issue #2163
Algae bloom devastation in South Australia
In a warmer climate, changing conditions are creating a devastating algae bloom in South Australia’s coastal waters, one which can out-compete other species. This has...
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Issue #2136
Capitalism and global warming
n his 1844 Manuscripts, Marx wrote “Man lives from nature, and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it if he is not to die....
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Issue #2138
GREEN NOTES
The Arctic and Antarctic polar ice caps are usually covered in white snow and ice that reflect heat back into space. The ice has melted...
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Issue #2176
Heatwaves: Silent killers
“Exposure to high heat is a major threat to human health. More people die in Australia from heatwaves than all other extreme weather events combined....
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Issue #2122
A UN target to protect and restore 30 per cent of nature by 2030 will not be achieved in ocean environments until 2107 on current...
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Issue #2206
The Pacific Islands Forum
The 55th annual Pacific Islands Forum was held against the backdrop of a UN report warning that the world will likely pass 1.5°C global warming...
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Issue #2139
DINGO
Environmental activist group Greenpeace International has been ordered to pay more than $660 million (US) in damages to a pipeline company by a US court....
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Issue #2138
DINGO
A survey of 1,011 people across Australia has found half of respondents are going without food, medication and other essentials to try to pay their...
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Issue #2173
COP30. ‘End the era of fossil fuels’
“COP30 will go down in history as the deadliest talk show ever produced,” Harjeet Singh of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation said at the conclusion...
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Issue #2171
Net zero hijacked by fossil fuel polluters
Net zero emissions by 2050 is a target adopted internationally under the UN International Framework on Climate Change at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015...
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Issue #2196
EDITORIAL
There’s an El Niño on the way. It will push global heat higher. It’s impossible to say exactly what will happen where, but next year...
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Issue #2136
EDITORIAL
What do real action on Climate Change and the acronym Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have in common? The answer is not ‘Donald Trump,’ although...
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Issue #2172
COP30: Ground zero of climate crisis
“Climate change is no longer a threat of the future; it is a tragedy of the present,” said President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da...
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Issue #2202
EDITORIAL
Allister Heath is a right-wing British opinion columnist, easy to ridicule. There’s even a website which will generate Allister Heath headlines on any topic under...
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Issue #2178
Fire season: Albanese adds petrol
Australia is breaking records, but not the sort to be proud of. Some parts of Australia recorded their highest temperatures ever this January. South Australia’s...
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