China’s power sector is both the world’s largest emitter and the largest source of clean-energy growth, making it essential to global climate efforts.

Many people around the world say they are feeling more worried about climate change. Researchers call this growing phenomenon “climate anxiety”.

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

Extreme “wind droughts” that reduce power output from turbines for extended periods could become 15% longer by the end of the century across much of the northern hemisphere under a moderate warming ...

“Unprecedented” ocean warming could make key habitats “inhospitable” for critically endangered angelsharks, according to new research.

Heavy rains hit a number of northern provinces in China throughout the weekend, “intensif [ying] around Beijing and nearby provinces on Monday”, Reuters reports, with at least “four people killed in a ...

Nations are meeting at a UN conference in Geneva, in a bid to develop a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution, BBC News reports.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s forthcoming special report on climate change and cities has more women than men on its authorship team, for the first time in the organisation’s history ...

The UK should cut industrial emissions by two-thirds over the next 15 years under the government’s new plan for low-carbon industry.

Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.

Clouds could have a greater cooling effect on the planet than climate models currently suggest, according to new research.

Expansion of the “Azores high” – a high pressure system in the north Atlantic – is driving “unprecedented” changes in western Europe’s climate, new research suggests.