Articles by Damian Carrington Environment editor

$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code

Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries