Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate

The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as the world’s governments appear to have lost their appetite...

Team GB dreams of Magic Monday and a hat-trick of Olympic medals

Mia Brookes reaches snowboard Big Air final Britain has contenders in curling and freeski slopestyle High in the Italian Alps, where the thin air and oxygen deprivation often does strange things to the brain, ­British accents have started whispering about the possibility of Magic Monday – and Team GB winning...