EU agrees stronger price controls for new carbon market 12/6/2026

The European Union agreed stronger measures to control prices in its new carbon market early on Thursday, responding to governments' concerns that the emissions-cutting initiative ‌could increase fuel bills. ...more

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown 12/6/2026

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region. ...more

Deadly Indonesia floods wiped out at least 7% of rare orangutan population, report says 12/6/2026

Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia's Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new report released on Wednesday ‌showed. ...more

Climate summit host Turkey proposes 2035 global electricity target 11/6/2026

Turkey will seek to rally support for a global target for electricity to ‌meet 35% of the world's energy demand by 2035, aiming to cut fossil fuel consumption, the president of this year's global climate summit said on Tuesday. ...more

May was the world's second-hottest on record, EU scientists say 11/6/2026

The world has just experienced the second-hottest May since records began, as climate change and the developing El Niño weather ‌pattern conspired to push up average land and sea temperatures, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday. ...more

‘Coal power has lost its status’: Solar power outstrips coal in US despite Trump's attacks 11/6/2026

States won by Trump in the 2024 election accounted for 74 per cent of all solar capacity installed in the first quarter of 2026. ...more

Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals 11/6/2026

Conservationists say cherished creatures such as whales, dolphins and seabirds are being killed in large numbers by fishing tackle. ...more

Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says 11/6/2026

Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions. ...more

Two Iraqi cities among the world's riskiest for extreme weather 10/6/2026

Rising temperatures, low incomes, lack of green spaces and poor infrastructure put Basra and Baghdad in danger. ...more

'Short, sharp and more strategic': the EU's new approach to climate talks 10/6/2026

The EU wants to target fewer, clearer goals at the world's annual climate ‌summit in November, building alliances in advance to avoid a repeat of last year's bruising talks where the bloc struggled to advance its agenda, a document showed on Monday. ...more