Climate change news headlines

Buddha was born approximately 2567 years ago, and although the exact date is unknown, Buddha's official birthday is celebrated on the full moon in May in South Korea, which is on May 27 this year.

Up to 100 protesters were met by a large police presence as they blocked the intersection of Latrobe and Queen streets during peak hour in Melbourne.

Critics have said the measures don't go far enough stating, "no one will be fooled by this measure".

Shell Chairman Andrew Mackenzie could not start the meeting for more than an hour as dozens of protesters stood up, chanting and singing "Shut down Shell" and "Go to hell, Shell".

A climate protest caused chaos in Melbourne after blocking a major freeway exit during peak hour.

Climate activists in Italy dumped charcoal in Rome's famous Trevi Fountain on Sunday.

Albanese has met with Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan as the two leaders signed a new climate and clean energy agreement, as the US President apologised to the Aussie PM for cancelling his Sydney visit.

New York City is sinking from the weight of its own buildings, an alarming study has found.

More than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water over the last three decades.

The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is one of the "main mechanisms influencing Australia's climate" and meteorologists say it's just reached one of its strongest positive levels on record.

Australia could soon see a repeat of the conditions that sparked 2019-20's devastating bushfire season, as our planet is almost certain to set a new hottest year on record in the next half-decade.

Fears for the species are mounting after a grim discovery was made in a lake.

A major glacier in northwest Greenland is interacting with the ocean tides, scientists reported on Monday, resulting in previously unaccounted-for melting and potentially faster sea level rise.

Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of several weeks, leaving scientists scrambling to figure out exactly why.

The Northern Territory government has given the green light for on-shore gas drilling to go ahead at the Beetaloo Basin, despite warnings from scientists about its dangers.

One of Earth's largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life reduced by the end of the century due to the climate crisis.

An Extinction Rebellion member has been arrested after climbing onto the spire of the Arts Centre Melbourne in one of the group's latest stunt protests calling for climate action.

The Bureau of Meteorology says an El Niño weather system may form in the next few months, but said the chances of one this year remain at 50 per cent.

Droughts, floods and record low ice levels - from the top of the world's mountains to the depths of the ocean, the climate crisis took a heavy toll in 2022.

The world's ice sheets are melting at a frighteningly rapid pace, and there's an obvious cause.

The global mean ocean surface temperature is at record highs, so what does that mean for Australia?

The Albanese government is planning to give the uptake of electric cars a big push.

Energy and environment ministers vowed to work to hasten the shift toward cleaner, renewable energy, but set no timetable for phasing out coal-fired power plants.

A concerning find has been made in an environment believed to be one of the most pristine on earth.

In the hunt to understand the "little ice age" that once cooled the Earth, scientists have turned to an unlike source for clues: medieval latin manuscripts.

This mirrors a scenario posed by the 2004 sci-fi film, The Day after Tomorrow. So what would it really mean for humanity?

Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the circulation of deep ocean water with vast implications for the global climate and for marine life, a new study warns.

The so-called safeguard mechanism will force 215 of our biggest polluters to curb their emissions, which is seen as essential for Australia to reach its climate targets.

The United Nations has issued a "survival guide" for humanity in the face of unequivocal climate threats.

Amid the essential calls for broad action, one researcher had a direct message for every inhabitant of the rapidly warming earth.

Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists says.

A 15-month jail sentence handed to a climate protester who blocked a lane on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a truck has been quashed.

The third consecutive La Niña event, the weather phenomenon that brought wet conditions and devastating floods, has been declared over.

The monster profit came off the back of energy prices rising after Russia launched its war on Ukraine

An Australian woman newly returned from New Zealand has described the "apocalyptic" scenes in parts of the North Island hit by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Unless humans rapidly change mass food production systems, including eating less beef and dairy, emissions from the sector could add nearly 1 degree to global temperatures by 2100

For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet's surface — concluding two weeks of talks in New York.

It may seem strange to see Greta Thunberg protesting against wind turbines, but this week she has joined Indigenous and environmental groups in Norway to do just that.

The wet weather on Australia's east coast could finally be coming to an end, forecasters say, but it could be replaced with a new system that brings hot and dry spells in just a few months.

Thousands of Aussies are living with ongoing and unseen mental scars of surviving massive natural disasters.

Lismore's record-breaking flood killed five people, destroyed 4000 homes and wiped out businesses. One year on, the city is grappling with how to rebuild.

A standoff is intensifying between the federal government and the Greens over Labor's climate plan.

Australia's largest mobile network has made a huge environmental commitment, saying the science behind the decision "is clear".

What exactly is going on with Australia's weather, and what is going to happen next? We answer all of your La Niña and El Niño questions.

According to a recent report released by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), the record ocean warmth was due to a combination of a number of factors.

It sounds like a science fiction plot from the 1950s - in the far future year of 2023, one researcher has proposed we blast dust off the moon to shield us from the sun.

The government on Wednesday turned down a proposal for a new open-cut coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef, invoking environmental laws and the risk of "irreversible damage."

Glaciers around the world are melting at an alarming rate, and are leaving massive pools of water in their wake.

The wife of the man who led a Queensland government integrity review is among a group of climate change protesters who have been banned from Brisbane's Parliament House.

The planet could cross critical global warming thresholds sooner than previous models have predicted, even with concerted global climate action, according to a new study using machine learning.