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Trump has pledged to overturn Biden’s progress on climate change

The U.S. saw some of its costliest natural disasters in the last few months during the Earth’s hottest year on record because of greenhouse gases emitted by fossil fuels

<p>Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the the 47th president. Trump announced a slew of executive orders and actions on Monday, pledging to pull out of the Paris climate agreement </p>

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LiveAmericas

LA fires live updates: New threats target residents after rain

LiveAmericas

LA fires live updates: New threats target residents after rain

<p>Flames race up a hill as smoke from the Hughes fire fills the sky in Castaic, California, on Wednesday. After weeks of devastating fires and months without rain, the region is finally seeing some relief. But, storms could bring dangerous debris flows in wildfire burn scar areas, officials warn </p>
Americas

Flash floods and debris flows could hit wildfire-weary California

<p>This image provided by the Ministry of Defence shows the iceberg, known as A23a, on November 25, 2024, off the coast of Antarctica</p>
Science

Game of Thrones style ice wall on crash course with British island

<p>Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom put on a united front on the tarmac of LAX on Friday, as the president arrived in California for a visit to survey the devastation caused by the wildfires</p>
US politics

Trump and Newsom play nice as president surveys LA wildfire damage

<p>Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has revealed that her brother was among the thousands of Californians that lost their homes in the devastating Pacific Palisades fires</p>
Climate

LA mayor Karen Bass says her brother lost home in the Palisades fire

<p>Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has revealed that her brother was among the thousands of Californians that lost their homes in the devastating Pacific Palisades fires</p>
Climate

LA mayor Karen Bass says her brother lost home in the Palisades fire

<p>Electricity generation from solar energy overtook coal in the EU for the first time in 2024</p>
Tech

How solar power overtook coal in Europe for clean energy landmark

<p>President Donald Trump stands at the White House. Trump has blasted California Democrats over their response to recent deadly wildfires in and around Los Angeles, as well as their water policy and systems </p>
Climate

Trump’s firestorm of misinformation over LA fires is burning bright

<p>Commuters make their way along a street amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi</p>
India

Air pollution crisis finally in focus ahead of tight Delhi election

<p>Members of Greenpeace protest in front of the court in The Hague, the Netherlands, 22 January </p>
News

Court orders Dutch government to cut nitrogen emissions

<p>Scallops caught during the Fishtek Marine Potlights trials</p>
News

Underwater footage show Disco Scallops dance into lobster pots

<p>File photo of a Humpback whale’s tail in the Pacific Ocean</p>
News

Whale sightings boom hints at victory for anti-hunting laws

<p>A person tries to hose down embers from the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, earlier this month. Hurricane-force winds helped the deadly wildfires spread across the region, alongside impacts from climate change </p>
News

Strong wind is the thread tying climate-fueled disasters together

<p>Gianluca Grimalda, a senior climate researcher at the Kiel Institute in Germany, refused to travel by air which would have resulted in 90 per cent more carbon emissions</p>
News

Researcher fired for refusing to fly wins compensation

<p>Two Just Stop Oil activists have defaced Charles Darwin’s grave with orange chalk in Westminster Abbey.</p>
Home News

Just Stop Oil activists deface Charles Darwin’s grave

<p>A firefighter battling a fire in Los Angeles</p>
Voices

I’ve lived through wildfires in Australia – here’s what LA must do now

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Climate 100

Climate 100

The Independent Climate 100 List 2024

Our inaugural list of the world’s foremost environmental changemakers is not in order of importance, nor does it compare or rank one climate hero against another

<p> The list includes changemaking activists, scientists, academics, philanthropists, political leaders, business and tech leaders, and fashion entrepreneurs</p>

Climate Videos

Climate

I collected my plastic waste for a year — here is what I learned

Home News

UK must get prepared for Storm Darragh events, climate chief warns

Climate

Climate-vulnerable states walk out of Cop29 negotiations

<p>Fire in Inwood Hill Park, NYC</p>
Climate

Wildfire breaks out in New York City park — in November

IndyBest

<p>Ingredients, scent and how long the bars last were all considered by our testers </p>
Hair

17 best shampoo bars that are well worth making the switch

<p>We’ve spent two months trialling these eco-friendly skincare products </p>
Skincare

Best reusable make-up remover pads 2024, tried and tested

<p>These brands prioritise recycled materials and lab grown alternatives </p>
Women's Accessories

The best sustainable and eco-friendly jewellery brands to bookmark

<p>These are the brands every sneakerhead should get to know </p>
Women's Shoes

10 best vegan trainers to add to your rotation

<p>Reusable designs enable you to personalise and tailor the contents to your family </p>
Advent calendars

Best reusable advent calendars 2024: Refillable countdowns reviewed

<p>We studied ingredients, checked the packaging and put the products’ performance to the test</p>
Kitchen Accessories

11 best eco-friendly and natural cleaning products that actually work

<p>With these labels you can both look and feel good with your purchases </p>
Fashion & Beauty

The best sustainable clothing brands, according to a fashion writer

<p>We considered look, feel and cost of these period pants, as well as how they washed, dried and fitted into our life</p>
Fashion & Beauty

Best period pants 2025, tried and tested

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<p>A family cries as they discover their Altadena home was scorched by the Eaton Fire on Thursday. Several residents like them are now returning to find their homes were destroyed by the flames </p>
Americas

LA residents are returning home to find nothing left after fires

Americas

LA residents are returning home to find nothing left after fires

<p>A family cries as they discover their Altadena home was scorched by the Eaton Fire on Thursday. Several residents like them are now returning to find their homes were destroyed by the flames </p>
<p>Wildfires are currently ripping through Los Angeles and the surrounding areas – it is the type of event made worse by the climate crisis </p>
News

Hottest year sent planet past key limit of 1.5C for first time in 2024

<p>Film director Jim Jarmusch has had it with politicians blaming the Los Angeles firestorm on everything but the most obvious </p>
News

It’s climate change, stupid: Director Jim Jarmusch bashes deniers

<p>File. Vegans are more likely to harbour microbes found in soil</p>
Health

Study finds unexpected benefit to plant-based diet

<p>James Woods broke down in tears while telling CNN his Pacific Palisades home burned down, and his wife’s niece offered him the money in her piggy bank to rebuild </p>
Film

‘All Gone’: James Woods breaks down in tears over California fire

<p>James Woods broke down in tears while telling CNN his Pacific Palisades home burned down, and his wife’s niece offered him the money in her piggy bank to rebuild </p>
Film

‘All Gone’: James Woods breaks down in tears over California fire

<p> Ice floats near the coast of West Antarctica viewed from a window of a Nasa Operation IceBridge airplane </p>
News

Antarctica’s melting ice may awaken hidden volcanoes, study warns

<p>A view shows the city amid air pollution in Hanoi, Vietnam, January 3</p>
News

Inside one of the world’s most polluted city covered by toxic smog

<p>A map shows the risk of subzero temperatures across much of the US this week and next.</p>
News

First polar vortex of 2025: Dangerous cold forecast for millions

<p>Fireworks explode over Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour to celebrate the start of 2025 on Tuesday in the US. While the displays are often stunning to behold, they can degrade air quality and cause other harms to the environment </p>
News

New Year’s Eve fireworks come with a terrible environmental price

<p>A hand holds tiny plastic particles, that are known as microplastics and nanoplastics. Plastic pollution has permeated the air and water, as well as the human body. But the extent of that pollution and its impacts are still being uncovered</p>
News

Microplastics in our organs could be tied to disease, researchers say

<p>Hurricane Milton was the single most costly event in 2024</p>
News

Worst climate disasters of 2024 that caused billions in damage

<p>File. Aftermath of a wildfire </p>
News

Climate change added 41 heat days and supercharged disasters in 2024

<p>File. The logo of Green Hydrogen is seen at the 2023 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Germany on 17 April 2023</p>
Science

Fraction of hydrogen trapped under Earth can power world for centuries

<p>Hurricane Milton was the single most costly event in 2024</p>
News

Worst climate disasters of 2024 that caused billions in damage

<p>File. Aftermath of a wildfire </p>
News

Climate change added 41 heat days and supercharged disasters in 2024

<p>File. The logo of Green Hydrogen is seen at the 2023 Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Germany on 17 April 2023</p>
Science

Fraction of hydrogen trapped under Earth can power world for centuries

<p>Plastic is loaded onto a conveyer belt at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, chemical recycling plant in October 2023. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, said earlier this month that recycling is pointless. The reality is complicated </p>
News

Is recycling worth it?

<p>A woman holds her baby in their house after flash floods devastated villages in Baghlan, Afghanistan, on 17 May 2024</p>
News

Is it right to cut Afghanistan off from international climate funding?

Peru Kichwa Court
Americas

Amazon community fighting back after ancestral rainforest ‘stolen’

<p>File. Thermal stations powered by coal near Muswellbrook in Hunter Valley, Australia </p>
News

Australia expands coal mines despite climate ‘death sentence’ warning

Russula neopascua grows among alpine willow of the high Rockies in Colorado and Montana (Chance Noffsinger)
News

Ghost palms and toothy toadstools among species named by Kew scientists in 2024

<p>Meltwater rivers flowing across the Greenland ice sheet, which, combined with Antarctic meltwater and thermal expansion, accounts for the bulk of observed global mean rise in sea levels</p>
News

Dwindling Antarctic sea ice driving more storms, study warns

<p>Justin Hughes is chief executive of NetZeroNitrogen</p>
News

Former Red Arrows pilot bringing military grit to the climate fight

<p>A Chilean frog (Calyptocephalella gayi) is seen in a wetland in the middle of a neighbourhood in the city of Quilpue, Chile</p>
News

One of the world’s largest frogs faces extinction

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