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Damian Carrington

Damian Carrington is an environment editor at the Guardian

April 2025

  • A worker inspects an air conditioning unit outside a building

    Number of UK homes overheating soars to 80% in a decade, study finds

    Researchers say urgent action needed to inform people about risks of heatwave temperatures and adapt homes
  • Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef

    Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds

    Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs
  • Burned homes next to the sea in California.

    Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

    Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

March 2025

  • The head of a young man in a black baseball cap looks backward down a flooded street as he rides in a boat; another motor boat is behind him. The cloudy sky and pastel-coloured buildings are reflected in the silvery water.

    More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN

  • Jakarta, Indonesia climate whiplash graphic

    ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals

  • The world’s staple crops such as wheat, maize and rice are under threat from pervasive particles.

    Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

  • An oil refinery at Sunset

    Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

February 2025

  • Aluminium drink can and coffee cup lid imprints in a fake fossil

    Science Weekly
    Drinks cans and chicken bones: will ‘technofossils’ be humanity’s lasting legacy? – podcast

  • The Atlantic Ocean under a stormy sky

    Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds

  • Photovoltaic solar panels close to electricity pylons, near Sittingbourne, UK.

    Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says

  • Plaster of Paris imprinted with outlines of crushed drinks cans and a coffee cup lid.

    ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

  • Early warning system for climate tipping points given £81m kickstart

  • Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body

  • World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

  • Down to Earth newsletter
    There’s a taskforce dreaming up radical climate solutions – and you can help

  • Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist

  • Vehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high Alps

  • Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests

January 2025

  • Group of Inquistive Simmental and Hereford Cow's in the Field.<br>Group of young and older Simmental and Hereford cows and calves looking inquisitively at the camera. Early morning scene as the sun flares into the camera lens with a high angle viewpoint looking down at the cows who are gathering around the camera. Colour, horizontal format with some copy space in the sky. Photographed in a field on the island of Møn, Denmark.

    The alternatives
    ‘Insanely tasty green food’: how the meaty Danes embraced a world-first plant-based plan

  • an adult hand holds the foot of a small premature baby who is lying in an incubator

    Microplastics in placentas linked to premature births, study suggests

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