A newspaper headline featuring the words ‘climate change’ Picture: Shutterstock/Arda Savasciogullari The UK’s national press published more articles in 2025 opposing action to mitigate climate change than supporting it for the first time since analysis began. Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed an increase in climate action, more than double the number that supported it, according to analysis shared with Press Gazette by climate science website Carbon Brief. This marks the first time newspaper editorials opposing climate action have overtaken those supporting it in the 15 years since Carbon Brief began its analysis, and was also the highest recorded level of anti-action articles. Some 166 editorials – articles considered to represent the newspaper’s formal “voice” – that discussed potential action to mitigate the impact of human-caused climate change were analysed in 2025. Of the nine newspapers Carbon Brief analysed, it classified five of the newspapers as right-leaning (The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Express and their Sunday counterparts), three as left-leaning (The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent) …