‘We can’t wait’: Venice already seeking floods plan B five years after barriers’ launch
Rising sea level and eco damage caused by flood defence system prompt city authorities to consider next move
Full Story
Who should pay for the health impacts of the climate crisis? – Full Story podcast
Guardian Australia’s medical editor, Melissa Davey, speaks to Nour Haydar about how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality – and who should be responsible.
World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’
What are the health impacts of sea-level rise, and who should pay?
Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable
Christiana Figueres
February 2026
Tinsel to tidewall: discarded Christmas trees reused to protect Lancashire coastline
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
January 2026
Dutch government discriminated against Bonaire islanders over climate adaptation, court rules
It's time to talk about geoengineering
We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse
Brent Minchew and Colin Meyer
November 2025
The Sunday read
Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?
Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions
October 2025
Seascape: the state of our oceans
How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea
As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
September 2025
Seascape: the state of our oceans
‘It’s not just our houses’: can a Scottish village save Queen Elizabeth’s coastal path from the waves?
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
The Colombian coastal village reinventing itself as seas rise
Floodlight
‘Entire neighborhoods will have to move’: growth collides with rising seas in Charleston
The age of extinction
‘A little bit of joy’: can tiny rafts save endangered sparrows from rising seas?
August 2025
Country diary
Country diary: This is a land of water – the Lake District in reverse
The long read
Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
June 2025
Countries should keep their statehood if land disappears under sea, experts say
Long-awaited ILC report examines what should happen to vulnerable countries as sea levels rise
Tipping points: on the edge?
‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points
Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
