Climate change

It sounds like the title of a disaster movie, but a “Hothouse Earth” is what a group of climate scientists say we could be heading for – even if current carbon reduction targets are met.  

Up to 76 people are feared to have died and scores are missing amid unprecedented floods in western Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says rescue efforts are a “race against time”.

Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman – who was head of the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Bush – says President Trump’s ‘denial’ of climate change is ‘dangerous for our future’.

Just days before this massive storm slammed into Texas, President Trump scrapped a raft of federal flood protection standards which Barack Obama had introduced: measures which would legally have to take into account the impact of climate change.

One man who is in no doubt about the science and has been shouting about climate change for decades is the former Vice President of America, Al Gore. I caught up with Mr Gore ahead of the film’s premier at London’s Somerset House and began by asking him how he persuades climate skeptics like the…

How to cut down energy bills while still meeting targets on climate change? That’s the challenge for a new independent review tasked with examining ways of controlling costs.

Extreme weather is one of the biggest global threats to human health, scientists have warned.

Donald Trump is expected to announce that the USA will pull out of the Paris climate change agreement.

Will he – won’t he? President Trump seems to love drama – especially a drama with him in the lead role. This time its climate change.

Christiana Figueres, former head of The Framework Convention on Climate Change, discusses Donald Trump’s decision on the Paris Climate Agreement.

President Trump looks set to pull the US out of the landmark Paris climate accord within the next few days. The deal, signed two years ago, was a cornerstone of international engagement on climate change.

The High Court has thrown out a government attempt to delay publication of its plans to tackle illegal air pollution until after the General Election. Campaigners have pressed the government for years to draw up a strategy to improve air quality. Now Mr Justice Garnham has ruled that the draft plan MUST be made public…

He says it will put thousands of people back to work and reduce America’s reliance on imported fuel. But critics say that Donald Trump is ripping up a series of important protections against global warming.

Donald Trump’s new head of the Environmental Protection Agency has said that he doesn’t agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.

The new head of America’s environmental protection agency has told conservative activists he won’t go through with earlier threats to scrap the EPA altogether. But Scott Prewitt said the task of rolling back key climate and clean water regulations could start as soon as next week. And he’s not the only climate change sceptic with…