Scepticism that climate change is real has “almost entirely disappeared” from the opinion pages of British national newspapers in the past ten years, according to new research.

However articles dismissing or contesting policies designed to address the climate crisis marginally increased in the same time period.

The research, shared exclusively with Press Gazette, was commissioned by the non-profit Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit and carried out by a group of academics including Dr James Painter of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.