Climate

The UK is no longer a glowing example of tackling climate change - our carbon footprint is growing following Brexit

The “green Brexit” promised by the government has not been delivered, with weaker protections in areas such as nature and air quality, campaigners have said.

Fishing has overshadowed discussion of wider issues affecting the environment since Brexit

Warm words about climate action are one thing. But Brexit means it's likely all we will get is hot air. 

What would one mean, and how do we achieve it?

A new exhibition showcasing the works of Venetian artist Giovanni Antonio Canal, dubbed Canaletto, is set to open in Bath.  To begin when Covid restrictions permit, Canaletto: Painting Venice will run at the city’s Holburne Museum until September 5.   As Claudia Pritchard reports, such was Canaletto’s importance to our understanding and appreciation of the historic Italian city that his work is now helping assess its vulnerability […]

Coronavirus might have put it in the shade but, as Chloe Brimicombe reports, the globe also suffered from an extraordinary catalogue of extreme weather events in 2020. The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the climate […]

Tackling the climate emergency a political struggle needs to be won up against right-wing populism. RICHARD CALLAND says the new digital era provides an opportunity to do this. History may in due course record 2019 as the year in which the penny finally dropped about the climate emergency humanity faces. A sense of urgency was […]

WILL SELF on Naples and how our generation’s wake-up call on climate change is simply not enough to tackle the issue. One of the famous narrow streets in Italy. Picture: GettyImages – Credit: REDA&CO/Universal Images Group v My eldest son is heading off to Naples this week, to spend a few months in this storied […]

The urgency of the environmental cause is not just down to damage being caused, but the creeping fatalism that could overtake it, says ZOE WILLIAMS. More optimism is needed. It’s great when everyone agrees, right? We’ve had enough of the politics of division, the zero-sum atmosphere where nobody’s happy until their opponent has been obliterated. […]

Will former Remain campaigners now switch their attention to climate change activism? Green Party MEP CATHERINE ROWETT thinks not. Catherine Rowett MEP. Picture: Antony Kelly. – Credit: copyright ARCHANT 2017 Many of us who have spent the last few years fighting an increasingly desperate campaign for Remain are now struggling to find our feet in […]

Readers believe the Australian fires are a sign that more focus needs to go on climate change – and that Remainers can play a part in the fight. For over three years now the UK has, in effect, fiddled while Rome burned with endless talk about deals and borders and “taking back control”. Ignoring the […]

Images taken by a pioneering balloonist more than 100 years ago lay bare the impact of climate change on France’s biggest glacier, KIERAN BAXTER reports Like a one-man Google Earth, Swiss aviation pioneer Eduard Spelterini flew a gas-filled balloon from the French town of Chamonix to Switzerland on August 8, 1909 – a distance of […]