The year 2024 was the first in which average global temperatures at the surface of the planet exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the majority of leading datasets.

The UK's right-leaning newspapers unleashed a huge wave of editorials attacking energy secretary Ed Miliband throughout 2024.

Earth reached its hottest year on record in 2024, according to the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Service, the UK Met Office and Japan’s weather agency ...

More than 2,000 buildings destroyed and at least five people killed in “wildfires scorching communities across Los Angeles County”, and more climate news.

Last year was significant for energy and climate developments in China. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions growth hovered close ...

Despite coal-power output in the US falling to its lowest level in nearly 60 years, greenhouse gas emissions fell by just 0.2% in 2024.

A wildfire fanned by strong winds tore through an affluent Los Angeles neighbourhood yesterday, forcing 30,000 people to evacuate, and more climate news.

President Joe Biden has announced a "permanent stop” to new oil and gas drilling across more than 625m acres of coastal waters around the US ...

Donald Trump has criticised the UK government’s energy policy with a call to “open up” North Sea oil and gas production and “get rid of windmills” ...