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Latest stories

Adapting to climate change
A 3°C world has no safe place

The extremes of floods and fires are not going away, but adaptation can lessen their impact

Overlooked no more
The private sector starts to invest in climate adaptation

Companies and investors hope to avert losses to climate catastrophes

Climate change
Carbon border taxes are defensible but bring great risks

The EU’s proposal may set off another trade war

Why the European Union is a less-than-jolly green giant

The EU is better placed than national governments to set green standards. This will hurt


Urban environments
Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?

A Japanese botanist thinks the answer is “yes”

Kelp wanted
Why New England is going wild for wet weeds

Kelp helps farmers’ wallets and the world

The grapes are off
Climate change is affecting wine flavours

British bubbly is getting easier to make; French grapes are threatened


Catastrophe in Florida
Did climate change undermine Champlain Towers South?

As the search for the missing continues, the cause of the building’s collapse remains unknown

China’s climate sincerity is being put to the test


Dirty pretty things
Historic Bath’s struggle to be both green and pleasant

One British city’s dilemma exemplifies a broader national trade-off

Business and finance

Free exchange
The EU proposes a carbon tariff on some imports

The effort could prove an instructive example for others—or a cautionary tale

Activist investors are both greening and greying

Engine No.1 represents a new breed of gadfly

Climate briefs

Softening the blow
Climate adaptation policies are needed more than ever

People are already suffering from catastrophic losses as a result of extreme weather events like cyclone Amphan

Not-so-slow burn
The world’s energy system must be transformed completely

It has been changed before, but never as fast or fully as must happen now

Bad times
Damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising

It will go far beyond drought, melting ice sheets and crop failures

Projections of the future
How modelling articulates the science of climate change

From paper and pencil to the world’s fastest computers

The problematic politics of climate change
Why tackling global warming is a challenge without precedent

The first of six weekly briefs looks at the history of efforts to limit greenhouse-gas emissions