Category: Climate crisis

The climate crisis is an urgent and growing global problem that threatens the health and safety of people, animals, and the environment. It is caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and agricultural practices that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These gases trap heat and cause the planet to warm, leading to extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and other impacts.

The effects of the climate crisis are already being felt around the world. Heat waves, floods, drough

↪ Spanish floods: before and after footage shows the scale of destruction in Valencia – video 2 years ago
↪ ‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions 2 years ago
↪ Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find 2 years ago
↪ Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report 2 years ago
↪ Trump voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own | George Monbiot 2 years ago
↪ Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him | George Monbiot 2 years ago
↪ Dining across the divide: ‘The only thing we agreed on was our mutual dislike of Boris Johnson’ 2 years ago
↪ Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do | Rebecca Solnit 2 years ago
↪ ‘It can lead to chaos’: false claims and hoaxes surge as Spain’s floods recede 2 years ago
↪ This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme 2 years ago