Climate

Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision of a beautiful, sustainable planet. Now it inspires Hollywood movies and real-life tech. Can it change the world?

In What We Can Know, our greatest living novelist sees the UK slip beneath the waves – and looks for light in a drowned world

A devastating earthquake hit Afghanistan, and the call for aid has gone out. But if it’s all being stolen by the Taliban, what’s the point?

While railing against net zero in public, Reform's deputy leader has been investing in solar panels

Panama, undeserving of its media silence, is still humming with creatures great and small

Unfortunately, this time comes with unique reminders of the inequality and suffering that is the core experience of South Africans

In Iceland, where the boundaries of what’s possible are often pushed, Thermal Beets is ditching the harmful plastic ordinarily used to make records

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

Extreme summer heat, driven by climate change, is putting off tourists and having a devastating effect on the Eternal City’s economy

The cool, damp climate of the south-west of Ireland has become a surprising summer refuge for weary travellers escaping the heat of Europe

After two years of droughts, farmers are being forced to find new, innovative ways to grow ingredients for the classic Italian dish

It's time for the country to change its entire approach to the weather

As temperatures rise and insurance markets get spooked, voters and populist politicians still want to spend less on the environment

The human cost of air pollution is too high to ignore. But, how do we tackle those individuals who won't change their ways?

Experiments to combat climate change using ‘iron fertilisation’ to boost plankton growth, first proposed in the 1980s, remain unproven and contentious

How São Paulo’s ‘Big Worm’ went from urban scar to public space – and what it tells us about city futures

Digging into the details and data to separate the noise from the news

A populist pushback is fuelled by voter scepticism that our global leaders can ever crack the climate crisis

A newly-elected mayor for Nigel Farage's party seems to have changed his view on green jobs very rapidly

Enzo Suma’s Archeoplastica project turns pollution into art shaped by the sea – to make a point

Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer. And the craziest thing is… they’re half right

Reform are winning by offering wrong answers to real problems. Switching off the booming green economy is worse than Brexit

Whatever you do, don’t give in to the idea that we are all doomed. It only makes it all much worse

Communities whose lives have been shaped and scarred by mining are now shaken by the prospects of a green transition

Thousands of trees are being felled in the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway for this year’s climate summit in Belém

Meet the Americans swapping Trump’s Florida for the gentle rural landscapes of County Kerry

Reliable snowfall is becoming a thing of the past in the Alps, where the effects of climate change are magnified due to the terrain

The case for green measures has never been clearer. But ideology in the US and internal battles in the UK threaten any progress

The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean

The rapid speed at which the Adamello is melting shouldn’t come as a shock; the past two years have been unbearably hot in Italy

European nations need to be vigilant and forward-thinking to prevent further disaster