UK Warned Cuts to Flood Defense Are Too Dangerous to Consider April 30, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard The UK should spare flood defense programs from budget cuts to be announced in June, as the country is already...
What Two Oil Firm Ads Show About Where UK Regulator Draws Line on Greenwashing April 10, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard An ad for TotalEnergies SE inflated the oil company’s investments in renewable energy, misleading consumers, the UK’s advertising regulator ruled...
Trump’s Return Prompts Companies to Stifle Climate Talk With ‘Greenhushing’ March 5, 2025 By Coco Liu and Olivia Rudgard As the chief executive officer of Caelux, Scott Graybeal runs a technology startup in Baldwin Park, California, that makes high-efficiency...
Europe’s Warming Ocean Current ‘Unlikely’ to Collapse This Century February 26, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard A new study disputes a long-held fear that climate change will lead to a quick, total collapse of the Atlantic...
UK Commits £2.65 Billion to Tackle Rising Flood Risk February 5, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard The UK will spend £2.65 billion ($3.31 billion) on flood defenses to protect homes from the growing risks posed by...
Climate Change Will Lead to Higher Deaths in Europe, Study Shows January 29, 2025 By Olivia Rudgard As Europe gets hotter, more people are expected to die from extreme heat, outweighing the reduction in those killed by...
Climate Change Makes Fierce Winter Storms Like Éowyn Even Stronger January 27, 2025 By Joe Wertz, Olivia Rudgard and Emily Biuso Winter Storm Éowyn pummeled Ireland and the UK with hurricane-force winds on Friday, creating blackouts for hundreds of thousands and...
Global Temperature Set to Surpass 1.5C Threshold in Hottest Year on Record December 9, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard This year is “effectively certain” to be the warmest on record with temperatures climbing above a closely watched threshold for...
Deadly Spain Floods Show Difficulty of Adapting to Intense Rains November 1, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard and Thomas Gualtieri Floods that killed more than 150 people in eastern Spain this week were caused by a storm that dumped a...
Gas Stoves Linked to 40,000 Premature Deaths in Europe Annually October 28, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard Gas stoves in European homes are associated with tens of thousands of premature deaths, a study has found. Nearly 40,000...