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Once described as “the most important and original scientific thinker in the world”, James Lovelock is still a hugely influential environmental thinker – and he’s about to celebrate his 100th birthday. In the 1960s he was a campaigning eco-pioneer and now he’s a firm advocate of nuclear power. The BBC’s Mishal Husain went to meet …

Image copyright NASA Last week’s record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made “at least five times” more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists. Their rapid attribution study says that rising temperatures “super-charged” the event, making it more likely to happen than through natural variability alone. Heatwaves in June are now about …

Image copyright Maxar DigitalGlobe Image caption The Wilkins Ice Shelf underwent a series of fragmentation events from the late 2000s onwards Even if global warming can be kept to a 1.5-degree Celsius rise from pre-industrial times, the Antarctic Peninsula is set for some big changes. This is the assessment of an expert panel of scientists. …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“We are stronger when we work together,” says Theresa May World leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, after Theresa May urged them to do more on climate change. The prime minister called on the G20 countries to set targets for net zero greenhouse …

In May, for the second time this year, more than 1.5 million young people in more than 125 countries walked out of schools, colleges and universities in the biggest day of global climate action ever. Young people have protested en masse before – millions marched against the Iraq war in 2003 – but this child-led …

Image copyright KIARA WORTH/IISD/ENB Image caption The small island states accused Saudi Arabia and others of denialism UN delegates in climate talks have agreed a “compromise” on how to include a key scientific report after two weeks of talks in Bonn, Germany. Negotiators decided the report represented the “best available science”. But they have not …

Image copyright KIARA WORTH/IISD/ENB Oil producing countries are trying to “erase the science” on keeping the world’s temperatures below 1.5C, say some delegates at UN talks in Bonn. The chair of the Alliance of Small Island States said Saudi Arabia and others were trying to pretend a key scientific report didn’t exist. Small island states …

WASHINGTON (AP) — This was no Trump rally. Ten Democrats kicked off the presidential debate season with a sober rendering of policy that featured a smattering of missteps on climate change, the economy and more but no whoppers. The Democrats spoke largely in generalities Wednesday night and when they got into the nuts and bolts, …

Unlike in past primaries, many Democratic contenders are treating the climate crisis as a major campaign issue. Many leading Democrats have said they support the Green New Deal, an ambitious and sweeping set of policy proposals to address climate change, or have proposed similar plans. RELATED: Here is what Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke and others …

Image copyright KIARA WORTH/IISD/ENB A “triple whammy” of events threatens to hamper efforts to tackle climate change say UN delegates. At a meeting in Bonn, Saudi Arabia has continued to object to a key IPCC scientific report that urges drastic cuts in carbon emissions. Added to that, the EU has so far failed to agree …