Latest climate change news
Coal protest highlights danger to Great Barrier Reef
NEWS: Aboriginal elders and residents oppose Abbot Point port expansion as Unesco mulls “in danger” status for unique coral ecosystem
Why should you care about the Sustainable Development Goals?
ANALYSIS: Revamped version of Millennium poverty-busting plan can protect the climate, but experts say it needs cash
Australia military ‘unprepared’ for climate impacts – experts
CRIB NOTES JUNE 22-26: Canberra drops defence brief, UK debates fracking, SDGs dominate in NY and FormulaE hits London
After the Pope’s plea, what do other faiths think on climate?
ANALYSIS: Scholars from Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and leading evangelicals explain why the environment matters to their religion
Indian heatwave deaths blamed on global warming
NEWS: Fierce temperatures in India doubled the heat-related deaths normally recorded in May − and the government insists natural causes are not to blame
Is avoiding 2C of global warming possible?
VIDEO: Models that suggest the world can rapidly cut CO2 emissions are optimistic, says CICERO’s Glen Peters
Is Russia moving towards a fracking future?
NEWS: US fracking has challenged the Kremlin’s hold on the global gas market and Russia is keen to regain its share, say analysts
Obama welcomes Pope’s climate call, Republicans cry foul
WEEKLY WRAP: All you need to know from the last seven days of international climate change and energy politics
Renewable energy in numbers – REN21 report
BLOG: Clean power installations outstripped fossil fuel and nuclear plants in 2014, backed by increasingly widespread policy support
It’s not about numbers, it’s about love
COMMENT: To count the people on the streets of London for yesterday’s mass climate lobby misses the point, writes Louise Gray
UK government ordered to publish censored fracking report
NEWS: Transparency watchdog rules redacted study must be printed in full amid debate on shale gas ahead of Cuadrilla verdict
May 2015 was the hottest on record, say US govt scientists
NEWS: Record temperatures and impending El Nino set year on course to be warmest since 1880
Pope takes climate debate mainstream in bullish intervention
ANALYSIS: ‘We may well be leaving to coming generations debris, desolation and filth’, Pope Francis tells flock of 1.2 billion
US biodiesel fraudster faces 10+ years in jail
NEWS: EPA warns of severe penalties for undermining green transport policy, after 50-year-old runaway pleads guilty to charges
AS IT HAPPENED: Pope Francis’ climate call to action in encyclical
BLOG: Rolling coverage from the launch of the Pope’s call to all Catholics to respect the environment and tackle climate change
What does the Pope’s encyclical mean for the climate fight?
COMMENT: Pope Francis’ unequivocal call to arms will reverberate globally in acting on climate change says IIED’s Camilla Toulmin
UK political consensus on fracking for gas disintegrates
NEWS: Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful latest to call for fracking ban, while Labour favourite and SNP also support moratorium
Britain rallies on climate change in mass lobby
NEWS: More than 9,000 people flocked to Westminster to urge MPs to back action on global warming, in the largest ever demo of its kind
Tea Party supporters score high on climate ideology, low on facts
NEWS: Researchers find “ideological roots” for a false sense of understanding among US right wing faction
Why love of landscapes is central to climate challenge
ANALYSIS: With land degradation soaring, climate strategists are looking beyond piecemeal projects to raise cash for conservation