Daisy Dunne

In the wake of a record-breaking worldwide heatwave, The Independent gathers experts to discuss how the climate crisis is supercharging extreme weather events

Crop losses caused by extreme weather disasters can drive food shortages and price spikes, says study lead author.

Research produces ‘very broad estimate’ of the number of deaths from the 2003 and 2018 UK heatwaves that can be attributed to human-caused climate change

A petition signed by nearly 65,000 people calls on the Bank of England to ‘cut off the money pipeline’ for fossil fuels

Climate crisis ‘biggest security threat humans have faced’, Sir David Attenborough tells UN  The Independent

World must ‘transform relationship with nature’ to tackle burgeoning environmental crises, says UN  The Independent

Government urged to include WHO air quality limits in Environment Bill  The Independent

Forests in flames  Daily Pioneer

An analysis of 130 peer-reviewed studies shows that 68% (89) of the 130 studies found that women were more affected by health impacts associated with climate change than men.

Revealed: The exact components that make perfect fried chicken.

Climate change has driven an “alarming” increase in the number of years with both heatwaves and droughts across the US over the past five decades, a study finds.

In this Q&A, Carbon Brief examines how diets are already changing and what will be required to ensure the world’s food consumption is “climate-friendly”.

Food production accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It takes up half of the planet’s habitable surface.

Restoring tropical forests through tree planting and selective plant removal can rapidly increase the speed at which they recover from logging.

Siberia’s prolonged heat from January to June this year – which broke temperature records and drove polluting megafires – would have been “almost impossible” without climate change, according to new analysis.

This year has seen unprecedented wildfires cause havoc across the world. Australia recently battled its largest bushfire on record, while parts of the Arctic, the Amazon and central Asia have also experienced unusually severe blazes.

New study findings “tackle the problem of identifying the human influence of drought patterns across the world”, a climate scientist tells Carbon Brief.

At present, the United Kingdom is only expected to see 40C heat once in every 100 to 300 years. But new research has found that it could occur every three and a half years in a scenario of very high...

But if temperatures exceed 2C – the warming threshold set by countries under the Paris Agreement – the ability of tropical forests to store CO2 will decline rapidly, a new study has found.

Human-caused climate change has played a role in shaping the global distribution of tropical cyclones in the past 40 years, a study finds.