Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024 | Climate crisis

Climate change caused global annual temperatures to exceed the internationally agreed 1.5°C target for the first time last year, further accelerating extreme weather events and causing “misery for millions of people”. The average temperature in 2024 was 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels. Data from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). This is an increase of […]

Los Angeles Homeowners in Insurance Crisis as Wildfires Blaze On

California residents have been battling for years with insurance companies no longer willing to protect their homes, and in the months leading up to this week's wildfires, thousands of homes were damaged, including about 1,600 in the now devastated Pacific Palisades area. insurance contract was terminated. According to the 2022 U.S. Census, nearly 80% of […]

Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting

TThree sentences in Labour's 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: Money should no longer be your passport to the best treatment. A new National Health Service should have health centres, more and better hospitals, and a suitable environment for doctors and nurses so that the people can enjoy the best that modern science […]