As an airline in Taiwan launches a three-hour ‘flight to nowhere for singles looking for love’, Daisy Dunne asks how such services can be justified in the era of the climate crisis

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that “deep, rapid and sustained” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are urgently needed to keep climate change within livable limits.

Greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase, exacerbating the challenge world leaders face in preventing the impacts of climate change to get worse.

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As climate change becomes a health risk, the U.S. government has warned it will reassess spending priorities.

The West African Canary Current extends along the north-west African coast, from the northern Atlantic coast of Morocco to Guinea-Bissau. It's a hotspot for changes in the oceans driven by climate change. These include rising temperatures, ocean acidification and ocean deoxygenation. All affect marine life on multiple levels.

The youth climate movement has revolutionized the way both politicians and the media speak about climate change. Can it change how we act?

The clubs feeling the effects of climate change

It's been linked to a year of extremes – from bushfires to torrential rains – but what is it?

How does your knowledge of climate change compare with other FT readers? Take the quiz and find out!

The public's concerns about climate change could reduce support for natural gas as an alternative fuel source, research suggests.

Daisy Dunne assesses the merits of the prime minister’s bold new plan to tackle climate change – from recycled old pledges to ambitious new proposals

Despite the fact that poorer people generally have lower emissions, taxes on the carbon dioxide (CO2) our activities emit tend to affect people on low incomes more than richer people. Having less money means you can ill afford a switch to an untaxed alternative, like an electric car, or pay for carbon-saving measures like home insulation. You are also more likely to struggle to use less of an essential good like petrol or gas for heating, even if the price goes up.

ExxonMobil knew ‘as much as academic and government scientists knew,’ study finds

The Paris Agreement, if fully implemented, would lower temperatures around the planet by 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit, says Bjorn Lomborg.

At least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Court of Appeal had ruled Heathrow expansion decision was unlawful because ministers had not fully considered the goals of the Paris Agreement

The 30 or so golf courses in the Salt Lake County of Utah drink up around nine million gallons of water a day to stay pristine green -- that's more than 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt's breadbasket

Progressive Democrats plan to oppose the infrastructure bill unless a detailed agreement is reached in the larger social safety net package.

Early estimations of the carbon footprint for the average NFT suggest it is equivalent to the monthly footprint of someone living in the EU

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The last few months have seen floods, drought, heatwaves, fires and famine sweep across the African continent. Daisy Dunne reports on the human cost and possible causes

The suffering of animals raised for meat in the UK is utterly disgusting. The food we eat is the most direct way we impact our planet. This is an emergency – when will government and food retailers listen?

Climate change has many catastrophic consequences, including droughts, floods, wildfires, heat waves, rising sea levels and biodiversity loss. These all have adverse implications for social cohesion, economic development and financial stability.

Saudi-led sustainable tourism group promises rigorous measurement of the travel industry’s total emissions

Britain’s evacuation effort in Kabul has entered its final hours

Glasgow summit must be ‘turning point for humanity’, PM tells United Nations

Investor pressure over climate change leads American companies to change tack

Vor einem Jahr schlossen sich Gründerinnen und Gründer im Verein „Leaders for Climate Action“ zusammen. Ihr Ziel den CO2-Ausstoß der Tech-Szene reduzieren. Funktioniert das?

Short of a miracle, it seems unlikely the COP27 climate change negotiations in Egypt will deliver any concrete action on loss and damage.

Tropical forests are crucial for sucking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But they're also subject to intense storms that can cause "windthrow"—the uprooting or breaking of trees. These downed trees decompose, potentially turning a forest from a carbon sink into a carbon source.

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services is kicking off a campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change and foster greater awareness of how climate change affects vulnerable communities.

‘We have to feel the fierce urgency of now’, says Allegra Stratton

Young people are on the frontline of the fight for climate justice. But what do their parents think? Ella Glover spoke to three Generation Z climate activists - and their folks - to find out

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“CLIMATE. CHANGE. IS. REAL,” tweeted Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Short of a miracle, it seems unlikely the COP27 climate change negotiations in Egypt will deliver any concrete action on loss and damage.

"The Office" star announced he's change names to protest climate change.

As climate change triggers sea-level rise and extreme weather, even New York, one of the world's best prepared cities, may not be doing enough

We can’t stand in front of the world imploring other countries to step up in the climate crisis fight, when many of our policies at home are taking us in the opposite direction

Sayed Abuel-Ezz has seen his crops wither from seawater before. As the Nile Delta farmer walks among his mango trees on his land not far from the Mediterranean Sea, he worries it will happen again despite spending the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars to prevent it.

The executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Convention discusses the international climate treaty adopted in 2015.

Techniques used by servants of the Inca empire 500 years ago could be vital in accessing an increasingly scarce resource

Delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow reach deal on climate action.

Climate change is a complicated phenomenon with a variety of both abrupt and gradual effects that scientists are working hard to uncover. Emerging findings on how various ecosystems are responding to a changing climate, stemming from long-term research conducted through the National Science Foundation's 40-year-old Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, have now been published in a series of articles in the journal BioScience.

The public's concerns about climate change could reduce support for natural gas as an alternative fuel source, research suggests.

While the distance of flights would vary, with an average flight length of three hours, Davos would see almost 34.6 million pounds burned during the event.

A heating-up planet has driven huge increases in wildfire area burned over the past few decades.

Environmentalists say ministers are living in a ‘fantasy’ by giving new fossil fuel production the green light