2024 by the numbers โ€• from victims of war to a warming planet

Out with the old, in with the … old. Familiar trends characterized a year of elections and bloodshed.

2024 temperatures set to break last yearโ€™s global record

The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administrationโ€™s efforts to combat climate change.

Collaboration is key to fulfilling regenerative agriculture goals

By lowering emissions, reinvigorating depleted soils and advancing biodiversity, regenerative agriculture can pave the way to more resilient, climate-friendly farms

Romaniaโ€™s presidential front-runner is all about farmers

Far-right independent Cฤƒlin Georgescu is trying to capture rural voters with fascist tropes.

5 things to know about Teresa Riberaโ€™s hearing

Groans, moans, applause, scolding. It was more open-mic night than august debate.

โ€˜Welfare for the richโ€™: how farm subsidies wrecked Europeโ€™s landscapes

The steep and stark environmental decline was not supposed to happen under the common agricultural policy The Rhine overflowed last winter, covering fields miles from the river and in some places leaving just the tops of trees visible.But Thomas Bollig…

Spainโ€™s deadly floods and droughts are two faces of the climate crisis coin

Scientists say violent weather battering Mediterranean is a harbinger of what the rest of Europe can soon expectResidents of Chiva, a small town on the outskirts of Valencia, can expect a grim future of worsening drought as the planet heats up and the …

Man swept away in floodwater as heavy rainstorms batter parts of northern Italy

Scientists warn that the climate crisis is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts, downbursts and flooding in Europe and around the globe.

Soaring temperatures need new genomic techniques to combat agricultureโ€™s rising challenges [Advocacy Lab Content]

As most of Europe headed to their favourite holiday destinations, European agriculture grappled with the challenges of record-breaking temperatures and prolonged droughts, impacting critical food-producing regions. Elisabeth looks at climate impact on …

โ€˜The place I love is in flamesโ€™: the people living and working in extreme heat

From a firefighter to a fruit farmer, from Greece to Thailand, the Guardian speaks to people in places hit hardest by the climate crisisExtreme heat records have been broken around the world this year, and scientists say 2024 is likely to be the hottes…

Why your coffee got so damn expensive

Blame the underwater drones.

Europeโ€™s southerners want Brussels to save them from climate change

Ursula von der Leyen faces pressure from the south over climate adaptation plans.

Von der Leyen threads the climate needle to keep her job

It was a love fest today. The green fights begin tomorrow

EU leaders ditch call to prepare for โ€˜new realitiesโ€™ of warmer planet

The European Environmental Agency found Europe unprepared for climate change risks such as floods and heatwaves.

From parched earth to landslides: crisis in the prosecco hills of Italy

Farmers and researchers tell of the impact of a rapidly changing climate, and the measures being taken to adaptPaola Ferraro marches through the neat grids of vines that chequer the slopes of Monfumo and rattles off the number of ways violent weather h…

Italy can do without Russian gas, says energy minister

Rome has no reason to oppose EU sanctions targeting Russian LNG, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin says.

No more โ€˜business as usualโ€™ in climate fight, UN boss warns โ€˜slippingโ€™ politicians

UN’s Simon Stiell uses event in London to warn politicians against downgrading climate policy.

Droughts prove EUโ€™s water resilience urgently needs holistic strategy [Advocacy Lab Content]

With several EU member states facing the impacts of drought conditions and the blocโ€™s water ecosystems under pressure, experts have voiced the need for a โ€œholistic approachโ€ to increase Europeโ€™s water resilience.

EU takes the ax to green farming rules

The European Commission’s move to slash environmental requirements for farmers comes as top scientists are urging just the opposite.

Europe must quicken green efforts after election, EU climate chief says

The bloc should โ€˜focus just as much and probably moreโ€™ on climate in the coming years, Wopke Hoekstra told POLITICO.

5 things we learned from the EUโ€™s big (and first) climate risk report

Farming must change. Diets must evolve. Southern Europe is at risk. And disaster looms if EU leaders donโ€™t act after Juneโ€™s elections.

Brussels warns of danger of water conflicts in EU

A document obtained by POLITICO shows the European Union will urge capitals to accelerate their preparations for a warming world.

โ€˜It makes me so sadโ€™: church reemerges from reservoir as Spain faces droughts

Increased evaporation, shorter rainy seasons and less mountain snow cover are set to worsen water crises in the western MediterraneanMagdalena Coromina tapped the hard ground with her walking stick and looked up at a church that was meant to be underwa…