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Climate crisis

  • Two people sit on grass next to a beach and look out across the Firth of Forth

    Coastlines
    Up to half of coarse sediments on UK urban beaches may be human-made, study suggests

    Researchers say waste dumping and climate breakdown have contributed to rise in brick, concrete and glass on beaches
  • An aerial view of a curved terrace of homes across the road from a river

    Wales
    South Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to flooding

  • People walk along a street destroyed by Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica, in October 2025

    Fossil fuels
    Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax

  • A tennis fan cools down in front of a mist sprayer at Melbourne Park

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Day and night, there’s no relief: five ways this heatwave is one of Australia’s worst on record

  • Illustration of men and climate crisis

    US Environmental Protection Agency
    How Trump’s EPA rollbacks could harm our air and water – and worsen global heating

Opinion

  • Coal Power Plant in West Viriginaepa11954643 A view of the Harrison Power Station, a coal-fired power plant owned by FirstEnergy that was built in the early 1970s and uses approximately 5 million tons of coal annually, in Haywood, West Virginia, USA, 10 March 2025. President Donald Trump has moved to substantially change the Untied States’ energy policy since taking office in January, including rescinding industry regulations aimed at reducing pollution and promoting coal as potential solution to large energy demands of the Artificial Intelligence computing. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Why US household energy bills are soaring – and how to fix it

    Mark Wolfe
  • Heatwave2026pixie

    It’s getting hotter thanks to climate change. Seriously though what will it take?

  • George Monbiot

    The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised

    George Monbiot
  • Adam Morton

    Through the heatwave haze, the hypocrisy of Australia’s fossil fuel policy shines bright

    Adam Morton

Features

  • A woman and a man holding a small child stand outside a home made of blue corrugated panels.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis

  • Roast beef on a board

    Beef
    The rise of ‘beef days’: why even meat lovers are cutting back

  • Brazil's President Lula attends the inauguration of a BYD plant in Camacariepa12443403 People clean vehicles during the inauguration of the Chinese company Build Your Dreams (BYD)'s factory, which will serve as the base for the company’s future expansion into the Latin American electric vehicle market in Camacari, Brazil, 09 October 2025. EPA/AMERICO ROBERTO

    Down to Earth newsletter
    Electric ​cars ​go ​mainstream as ​adoption ​surges ​across ​rich and ​developing ​nations

    Newsletter
  • Closeup of sausages and beef grilling on an outdoor grill in a park

    Meat industry
    ‘Humanity’s favourite food’: how to end the livestock industry but keep eating meat

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