December 6, 2025 Seham Tantesh  in Gaza, Julian Borger  and Emma Graham-Harrison  in Jerusalem When Jumaa and Fadi Abu Assi went to look for firewood their parents thought they would be safe. They were just young boys, aged nine and 10 and, after all, a ceasefire had been declared in Gaza . Their mother, Hala Abu Assi, was making tea in the family’s tent in Khan Younis when she heard an explosion, a missile fired by an Israeli drone. She ran to the scene – but it was too late

November 13, 2025 Oliver Milman  and Damian Carrington Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found. Only 100 countries have submitted plans to slash fossil fuel emissions at this ye

November 13, 2025 Maira Butt Hurricane Melissa tore its way through the Caribbean  this week, with 185pmh winds laying waste to anything in its path . Dozens of people have died and billions of dollars worth of damage has been caused after the category 5 storm made its way through Jamaica , Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti  and the Bahamas. However, while it was dubbed the “storm of the century”, forecasters have warned it could be anything but. Experts say climate change

November 13, 2025 Jeff Masters In the western Pacific, there is a special name for high-end Category 4 and 5 typhoons with winds exceeding 150 mph (240 km/h): super typhoons. No equivalent terminology exists in the Atlantic for “super hurricanes.” But perhaps there should be, because these strongest of the strong storms are an increasing threat to the viability of living along the Caribbean, as they are expected to become increasingly common because of climate change. A man w

November 10, 2025 Benjamin Neimark , Queen Mary University of London  and Kate Mackintosh , University of California, Los Angeles  People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes will be built back. But the climate consequences of the war will remain for years to come. https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/ravage-environment-respo

November 7, 2025 UN News Service From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural resources such as water systems, farmland and forests.         The impacts affect livelihoods, and fuel displacement as well as ongoing instability.  Moreover, they can linger even after the fighting has ended. © IOM/Raber Aziz Members of a family displaced by drought and conflict rest outside their tent.

November 7, 2025 Joëlle Gergis As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop  – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the

November 6, 2025 Rachael Mellor Dr. Norbert Stute Building on the legacy of the first summit held in Copenhagen in 1995, the primary goal of the second World Summit for Social Development is to advance global social development and bolster much-needed momentum for the Sustainable Development Goals  set out in the 2030 Agenda. This high-stakes event will be held November 4-6, 2025 in Doha, Qatar , and Better World Info  has carried out thorough research on the event. With just

October 29, 2025 Jonathan Watt The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian. These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average. Almost 60% of billionaire investments are in ‘high climate-impact sectors’, such as mining o

October 131, 2025 Philippa Nuttall It is estimated that processing the more than 42mn tonnes of building debris in Gaza will take decades © AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi

September 20, 2025 Ian Angus Discussions of climate change that focus on the 1.5°C or 2.0°C targets can be misleading. An increase of...

September 3, 2025 Kirsten Stade While recent heat waves were causing thousands of deaths , the Trump administration was busy dismantling...

September 3. 2025 By Catherine Goldberg  and Milan Vivanco No one was surprised when the United States withdrew  from the Paris Agreement...

August 20, 2025 The data was released in January but the bottom line is while nations of the world agreed in 2015 to reduce CO2, except...

August 17, 2025 Transnational Institute In 2025, there is one glaring security challenge facing everyone in the world – and that is the...

August 17, 2025 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Rainforest in Ecuador: functional biosphere integrity requires the plant...

August 8, 2025 UN News Service In this record-breaking July, heatwaves especially impacted Sweden and Finland, which experienced...

July 31, 2025 Jeff Masters We now live in the Pyrocene , a proposed new  geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by...

July 30, 2025 Corina Heri On Wednesday, July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague issued its long-awaited advisory...

July 23, 2025 By Damian Carrington  Guardian Environment editor Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a...