Keywords: Climate change


Belgian court delays ruling in TotalEnergies climate lawsuit

A Belgian court has postponed its decision in a climate-related lawsuit filed against French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies SE. The case, brought by a local farmer, will now see a ruling on September 9, 2026. Hugues Falys, a cattle farmer in Lessines, western Belgium, filed the suit seeking compensation......

Morocco joins global push to expand civil nuclear energy

Morocco has joined an international coalition aimed at expanding the financing and development of civil nuclear energy projects as part of the global effort to accelerate decarbonization. The announcement was made during a nuclear energy summit held in Paris, where participating countries reaffirmed......

February 2026 ranks among hottest on record as storms hit western Europe

February 2026 was the fifth warmest February ever recorded worldwide, with global temperatures approaching the critical threshold set by the Paris climate agreement, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The global average surface air temperature last month reached......

Greenland fishers struggle as Arctic warming melts vital sea ice

Fisherman Helgi Áargil says the waters of Greenland’s fjords have become increasingly unpredictable. Last year his boat became trapped in ice that broke away from a nearby glacier. This year the weather has been unusually wet. Some fishing trips bring him around 100,000 Danish kroner, about......

Vatican restores Michelangelo fresco as salt veil is lifted

Michelangelo’s monumental fresco “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a new cleaning campaign to strip away a chalky film of salt that has slowly dulled its surface since the last major restoration in the 1990s. Vatican officials recently allowed a small group of......

Invasive species, drought, and climate shocks put global water security at risk

A growing convergence of invasive species, protracted drought, and intensifying climate extremes is placing critical water and food systems in India, Türkiye, and the United States under mounting strain, according to researchers and officials. From parched lakes in southern India to collapsing aquifers......

Climate change drives deadlier Mediterranean winter storms

Human driven climate change has sharply increased the lethality and intensity of winter storms across the western Mediterranean, with recent tempests now about one third more deadly than they would have been in a pre industrial climate, according to an international team of scientists. Their assessment......

Europe’s extreme heat surges tenfold as new metrics expose climate risk

Extreme heat events across Europe have intensified by about a factor of ten in recent decades, as a new study from the University of Graz links this surge directly to human‑driven climate change. Using a novel computation method applied to more than six decades of temperature records, the research......

Antarctic emissions cuts seen as last chance to avoid irreversible damage

Scientists warn that Antarctica’s most accessible region is heading toward irreversible damage unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall sharply within the next few years. Drawing on new modeling of the Antarctic Peninsula, they say decisions made in this decade will lock in environmental changes......