The pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming
The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming laid bare
A year after the UN sounded the klaxon, warning of ‘some countries becoming dysfunctional’ thanks to the climate crisis, governments aren’t responding
Crops allow the poor to provide for themselves, but they need support to do so during droughts
Afrobarometer research shows that 59% of people in South Africa do not know what climate change is
The platform’s algorithm regularly surfaces videos promoting climate denial in response to queries about climate change
Scientists using new climate models say a bigger heat rise than expected is possible by the end of the century
Where did that limit come from, and what if we miss it?
Abiy is leading by example as Ethiopia plans to plant a mind-boggling four billion trees by October
Losing birds in the Kalahari has a wider effect. Desert areas are critical to overall evolution in avian species, adding diversity to the species
Sorghum, which is in the same family as millet, is the world’s fifth-most important cereal crop
In the heart of Iceland’s volcano country, 21st-century alchemists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock for eternity
Since October, the world has seen a crescendo of grassroots protests around climate change, especially in western Europe and North America
The Extinction Rebellion is rooted in the conviction that humanity has dug its own grave and has one foot dangling over the edge
Russian authorities have so far refused permission to shoot the bears but are sending a commission to investigate the situation
Disease caused the death of 55-million indigenous Americans, resulting in the reforestation of vast tracts of land
The two-week talks are tasked with breathing life into the 2015 Paris Agreement, which vows to cap global warming at ‘well under’ two degrees Celsius
New calculations by the UN’s top science panel sharply reduce the real-world potential for drawing CO2 out of the air
Floyd must account. The M&G looks at Shivambu’s link to his brother’s business bank account in the VBS scandal.
A UN report warns about the effect of global warming but says the tools exist to avert this fate
‘Large corporates aren’t doing anything about climate change because they only care about returns on profit this quarter’
The country’s successful reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is an example that needs to be followed
The continent will have to chart its own way, not following the examples of Europe and North America, if it is to reach its targets
Earth’s surface has warmed 1°C and is on track toward an unliveable 3°C or 4°C rise
California is currently battling its third largest wildfire since 1932, and such devastation could be the "new normal."
The year was the second warmest in modern times for the fragile Arctic, said the peer-reviewed report compiled by 85 scientists from 12 nations.
Scientists and green campaigners say the peatlands hold gigatonnes of carbon — a stockpile that poses a threat to hopes of limiting global warming.
Clownfish are being expelled from their home of anemones as warming oceans stress both the fish and their invertebrate marine home.
Scientists have warned that swathes of South Asia may be uninhabitable due to rising temperatures by 2100.
Average US temperatures have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1 500 years.
Without protein, growth is stunted, diseases are more common and early mortality is far more likely.
Rising temperatures due to global warming will make it harder for aircraft to take off in coming decades.