Climate change is spiralling out of control, with many of the consequences now 'irreversible', a damning report has found. In 2024, records were smashed for greenhouse gas emissions, global ...

The fund was fully operationalised at UN climate meet in Baku last year. It is meant to assist developing countries in ...

New research on historical sea-level rise will give scientists new knowledge into how global warming will affect the earth’s rapidly melting ice sheets. Source: Deltares, Utrecht University, TNO ...

Scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift nearly 90 feet (27 metres) by 2100.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

GREENLAND, AS YOU MAY KNOW, IS NEITHER NOT GREEN AND NOT REALLY LAND, BUT RATHER COVERED BY THE SECOND LARGEST BODY OF ICE IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO THE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET. BUT THE ICE IS MELTING.

Flood maps are difficult to decipher. But understanding the risk is critical for people wanting to live and work by the coast ...

One evening earlier this year, I came downstairs after putting our 4-year-old daughter to bed to find my husband looking at a ...

The Philippines, an archipelago comprised of 7,641 islands and islets, is highly vulnerable to climate change and the ...

Thames Flood defences - A tool can more accurately predict when the Thames Estuary flood defences will need to be closed.

Fresh evidence today has set out how quickly the Earth's climate is changing - in some places so fast it has shocked scientists. The new report arrives as the UK's long-standing political ...