Climate change could be kept in check if a phaseout of all fossil fuel infrastructure were to begin immediately, according to research.

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98 per cent of ground insects had vanished

Seas absorb 90 per cent of climate change’s energy as new research reveals vast heating over past 150 years

Rising temperatures are linked to increasing rates of suicide, according to a large new study.

The Republic of Ireland will become the world’s first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, after a bill was passed with all-party support in the lower house of parliament.

The findings, based on multiple lines of scientific evidence, throw into question previous predictions that a catastrophic collapse of the Gulf Stream would take centuries to occur.

The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool: each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way, says the Guardian’s Environment editor,