Climate News

As fires burn and temperatures soar, it’s time to imagine a world beyond GDP

August 7, 2026

Matched: climate

• gdp
• climate change
• economics
• environmental policy
• sustainability
• wealth measurement

When taps run dry in the Caribbean, it’s not enough to blame El Niño

August 6, 2026

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• climate change
• el niño
• caribbean
• water scarcity
• drought
• extreme weather

Disabled people face greater climate change risks – and they can also help NZ adapt

August 5, 2026

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• disability
• climate change
• new zealand
• climate adaptation
• inclusion
• resilience

Climate change may be making us lonelier: How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections everyone relies on

August 5, 2026

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• climate change
• loneliness
• extreme weather
• mental health
• social isolation
• heat waves

Butterflies are on the move as the planet warms: new research

August 5, 2026

• climate change
• butterflies
• wildlife migration
• conservation
• biodiversity
• habitat

‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities

August 5, 2026

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• cloudbursts
• flooding
• mountain communities
• climate change
• displacement
• pakistan

Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves

August 4, 2026

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• heatwaves
• nuclear power
• gas power
• wind power
• solar power
• climate change

East Africa’s iconic snow peaks will soon disappear for good – what will be lost when they melt

August 4, 2026

• climate change
• glaciers
• east africa
• global warming
• indian ocean
• biodiversity

Multiple threats endanger the world’s rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

August 4, 2026

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• tapanuli orangutan
• endangered species
• deforestation
• climate change
• wildlife conservation
• great apes

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

July 31, 2026

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• climate change
• heatwave
• extreme weather
• fossil fuels
• climate attribution
• global warming

Falls in whale sightings, rare seabirds appearing – is something unusual happening in the Southern Ocean?

July 30, 2026

• southern ocean
• marine heatwaves
• whale sightings
• seabirds
• ocean ecology
• climate change

Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action

July 30, 2026

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• climate action
• climate change
• public perception
• behaviour change
• social norms
• climate communication

Humanity Has Already Used Up Nature’s Entire Annual Budget of Ecological Resources and Services

July 30, 2026

• climate change
• earth overshoot day
• sustainability
• natural resources
• ecological footprint
• explainer

Flash droughts pull ‘alarming’ amounts of moisture from the landscape and intensify wildfires: new research

July 29, 2026

• flash drought
• wildfire risk
• drought research
• soil moisture
• climate change
• fire weather

Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa

July 29, 2026

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• climate change
• children
• sub-saharan africa
• disease risk
• temperature
• epidemiology

Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ for renewables mean for climate change?

July 29, 2026

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• climate change
• energy policy
• solar power
• wind energy
• emissions
• clean energy

‘The fire has such power’: why the wildfires gripping France and Spain are off the charts

July 29, 2026

• wildfires
• france
• spain
• climate change
• firefighting
• extreme weather

Donald Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke — but global warming is loading the wildfire dice

July 28, 2026

• wildfires
• climate change
• donald trump
• canada
• air quality
• misinformation

Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection

July 28, 2026

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• wildfires
• climate change
• media coverage
• journalism
• environmental reporting
• attribution science

Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation

July 28, 2026

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• climate change
• tropical vegetation
• biodiversity
• deforestation
• ecosystem disruption
• environmental science

What two centuries of Perth storm records tell us about future climate risk

July 28, 2026

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• perth
• climate history
• storm records
• australia
• climate change
• fossil fuels

It’s getting hotter in classrooms and on playgrounds – schools aren’t ready to handle extreme temperatures

July 27, 2026

• climate change
• education
• extreme heat
• school safety
• public health
• infrastructure

Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution

July 24, 2026

• fact-checking
• air pollution
• climate change
• extreme weather
• attribution

As Europe Roasts, the World’s Largest Meat Producer Ditches Net-Zero

July 23, 2026

• climate change
• jbs
• corporate accountability
• food systems
• emissions
• sustainability

Flood deaths in West African cities raise fraught issue of slum evictions

July 20, 2026

Matched: climate

• flooding
• urban planning
• climate change
• displacement
• poverty
• cities