From tar sands oil to aviation, global business sectors have called for suspension of environmental protections

Climate crisis likely to have supercharged temperatures around world, data suggests

Experts call for solutions to be enforced immediately to halt global population collapses

Research shows abundance at sites in Europe has plunged by up to 80% in two decades

Unsustainable use of resources is wrecking the planet but recycling is falling, report finds

The equivalent of 11,000 new cases of childhood asthma a day occur worldwide due to toxic air from traffic, researchers say, while Canada has the third highest rate in the world, trailing only Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Toronto is also among the top 10 cities with the highest number of asthma cases among children.

At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change, according to a landmark report, with serious consequences for almost 2 billion people.

“This Friday I can’t be there,” she told the Guardian. “So I will have to do it here in Davos, and send a message that this is the only thing that matters.”

Climate change could be kept in check if a phaseout of all fossil fuel infrastructure were to begin immediately, according to research.

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98 per cent of ground insects had vanished