This comes as a senior minister calls on the world’s most polluting countries to “wake up” and accept shared responsibility for a disaster that led to the death or disappearance of more than 6 000 people. Scientists believe the climate…

Big increases in wildfires and heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis are hindering improvements to air quality around the world, United Nations (UN) experts say. Regions that had recorded a fall in pollution emitted by cars and industrial sites are…

About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting. This is in addition to the hundreds of millions of people…

Enough new coal mining projects were proposed last year to increase global supplies by 2.5 billion tonnes a year, an increase of 11% from the year before, even as demand for coal plateaus. Global Energy Monitor found that India ignited…

The recent deaths of 15 elephants near a park in southern Kenya were likely caused by the animals ingesting pesticides used on tomato farms, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says. The agency’s director general, Erustus Kanga, says analysis of samples…