BeyondKONA: Climate

Former WA premier Colin Barnett warns against Clive Palmer preference deal, while Shorten rebuffs Greens on climate policy. Follow the day’s news live […]

Extinction Rebellion has carried out the final day of its campaign to draw attention to climate change, using peaceful, mass civil disobedience that resulted […]

Ceremony in London park marks break in activism after day spent targeting the CityHundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists have gathered at Hyde Park Corner […]

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Labor leader says ‘I’m not going to have this argument that somehow, we are going to go into coalition with the Greens’ Bill Shorten has […]

Data matches predictions that weather will get more extreme as planet warms, scientists sayThe world’s oceans have become more stormy during the past […]

Extinction Rebellion got the ball rolling, but more radical action is now necessary if humanity is to surviveIf only the Daily Express was right. That is not a […]

Environmentalists say Beijing is exporting a highly polluting model of growthChina will host a trillion-dollar investment summit this weekend amid rising […]

Rolling coverage of the day’s political coverage as it happensLunchtime summaryAfternoon summary 5.18pm BSTScotland’s future cannot and will not be […]

International trade secretary appeared to suggest scientific consensus could be questionedThe international trade secretary, Liam Fox, has been forced to […]

After two weeks of mass civil disobedience, we look at what has changedOrganisers of the climate protests that have seen peaceful mass civil disobedience […]

The climate crisis can be a challenging topic to discuss – especially with younger children. That’s why it’s so important for parents to […]

Climate campaigners target financial district before ending occupations and blockadesUp to 400 Extinction Rebellion activists have been stopping traffic in […]

UK exclusion of international aviation and shipping figures from carbon budgets was highlighted by Greta ThunbergThe UK is breaching the Paris agreement on […]

Proposals to replace EU rules ‘downgrade’ green principles, says cross-party committeeProposals to replace the EU’s strong environmental […]

We asked readers to tell us how they feel about the climate movement in the UKThe last week has seen environmental activist Greta Thunberg meet with MPs in […]

Climate change activists have glued themselves to the London Stock Exchange and trains at Canary Wharf station in a fresh set of protests targeting the […]

The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new oneFor most of my adult life I’ve railed against […]

More than half the world’s new pipelines in the US and CanadaPipelines ‘locking in huge emissions for 40 to 50 years at a time’More than half […]

Pristine forests are vital for climate and wildlife but trend of losses is rising, data showsMillions of hectares of pristine tropical rainforest were […]

Last week, central London was brought to a standstill when thousands of protesters blocked sites including Waterloo Bridge in a ‘climate rebellion’ […]

You’ve made the decision to go solar. You’ve determined that your house is a great fit for a home solar panel system. The next step is figuring out […]

Across the political aisle, a majority of American parents support teaching climate change in schools even though most teachers currently do not. According to […]

By Andrea GermanosLawyer and visionary thinker Polly Higgins, who campaigned for ecocide to be internationally recognized as a crime on par with genocide and […]

By Jake JohnsonAn alarming study released Tuesday found that melting Arctic permafrost could add nearly $70 trillion to the global cost of climate change […]

Global inequality is worse today because of climate change, finds a new study published Monday by Stanford University professors Noah Diffenbaugh and Marshall […]

Earth Day 2019 just passed, but planning has already begun for Earth Day 2020, and it's going to be a big deal.The Earth Day Network announced on this year's […]

Greenland is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s, which is even faster than scientists thought, CNN reported Tuesday.The new figure is part of a […]

At least 16 people have died, 81 are injured and 14 are still missing after an earthquake struck Luzon island in the Philippines Monday, according to the […]

Extinction Rebellion, the climate protest that has blocked major London thoroughfares since Monday April 15, was cleared from three key areas over Easter […]

By Shuchi TalatiSolar geoengineering describes a set of approaches that would reflect sunlight to cool the planet. The most prevalent of these approaches […]

By Tim RadfordScientists have identified yet another hazard linked to the thawing permafrost: laughing gas. A series of flights over the North Slope of Alaska […]

By Jason Bittel It's that time of year again: Right now, monarch butterflies are taking wing in the mountains of northwestern Mexico and starting to flap their […]

When did kids become so smart? For months they’ve been stepping out of school and charging the streets with signs at hand. Not to convince people that […]

Rapper and comedian Lil Dicky released a 7-minute climate change awareness song and video today, ahead of Earth Day on Monday, with proceeds going to the […]

By Eoin HigginsThe New York City Council passed the world's "largest single carbon reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever put forward" on Thursday […]

Beloved nature broadcaster Sir David Attenborough narrated a BBC documentary on climate change Thursday that Guardian reviewer Rebecca Nicholson said aimed to […]

Public transportation is genuinely magical. Only it’s the kind of magic that actually works in real life. How? It reduces emissions, provides […]

By Jordan DavidsonThe climate crisis has us spiraling towards higher temperatures while also knocking out marine life and insect species at an alarming rate […]

By Jake JohnsonA petition calling on 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to hold a climate-specific debate has garnered over 30,000 signatures in just […]

In June of 2017, President Trump announced that the United States would begin the process of withdrawing from the historic Paris Agreement. In the absence of […]

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish 16-year-old who has inspired young people around the world to strike from school over climate change, addressed the European […]

More than 100 people were arrested during ongoing climate change protests in London that brought parts of the British capital to a standstill, police said […]

The American Museum of Natural History says it is "deeply concerned" about a gala honoring Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro that is scheduled to take place […]

By Jake JohnsonThe Extinction Rebellion movement kicked off a week of marches, demonstrations and peaceful civil disobedience across the U.S. and around the […]

By Tara LohanWe have a big job ahead of us. The perils of climate change will require that we craft new policies, fund robust scientific research and […]

The center left Social Democrats secured a narrow victory Sunday in a Finnish election dominated by the question of climate change.In Finland, one-third of […]

In an in-depth interview with Reuters Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler repeated claims that climate change is not the […]

Around the world, cities, states, countries, and companies are making the switch to clean, renewable energy to help stop climate change. Better yet? It just […]

By Kaitlin GrableUnder the restless surface of our seas, hundreds of miles from land, there's a world of giants and hunters; ancient lifeforms and lost […]