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German coalition eyes 'limited' foreign carbon credits

10 Apr 2025

The parties likely to form Germany's next government today presented their coalition treaty, which pledges to allow the use of foreign carbon credits to reach the country's 2040 climate target.

Increased access to medications may be a public health good—but it’s a big climate challenge

10 Apr 2025

Emissions from pharmaceutical production and consumption have nearly doubled in the last 24 years, according to a new global analysis.

Climate expert who studied WW2 shares how Canada can win Trump’s trade war

10 Apr 2025

"When we need to urgently build big things, we have to do it ourselves," Vancouver-based author Seth Klein tells DeSmog.

Chevron ordered to pay $744.6 million for destroying Louisiana’s coastal wetlands

10 Apr 2025

Oil giant Chevron has been ordered by a Louisiana civil court jury to pay $744.6 million to a parish government to help restore coastal wetlands destroyed by the company over a period of decades.

It's only early April and north India is bracing for extreme heat

10 Apr 2025

India's weather department has warned of high temperatures in parts of northern India, including capital Delhi, for this week.

Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy

9 Apr 2025

Emissions from the sector increased by 1.6% year-on-year, to reach a record high of 14.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide (tCO2).

Europe just had warmest March on record

9 Apr 2025

Europe experienced its warmest March since records began, as climate change continues to push temperatures to unprecedented levels, European Union scientists said on Tuesday.

Labor’s home batteries policy could help Australians who will never take it up. Here’s how

9 Apr 2025

The government’s promise to slash the cost of household batteries should be welcomed – it could drive a change that benefits everyone who uses the power grid.

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Africa must shun Trump’s push to resurrect coal

9 Apr 2025

Clean energy can be Africa’s greatest success story, which is why its leaders must not fall for the pro-coal lobbying of the Trump administration.

Trump’s tariff tantrum won’t stop the global energy transition

9 Apr 2025

Trump has such a passion for tariffs he even imposed them on Antarctic islands – home only to penguins, who presumably pose a grave threat to American industry.

Climate crisis made ‘bonkers’ central Asia heatwave up to 10C hotter

9 Apr 2025

Springtime heat in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan likely to become more common as planet warms, accelerating glacier loss and threatening water supplies.

EU countries cautious on Brazil’s push for new climate body

8 Apr 2025

Brazil’s idea to create a new multilateral body under the UN climate regime to fast-track implementation of COP decisions has triggered cautious responses from key developed countries, with Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden backing reform discussions but warning against weakening the core UNFCCC process.

Do climate goals matter in a bad economy?

8 Apr 2025

It would be understandable for a climate concerned person to fear that economic headwinds will be yet another force that slows climate action.

World’s largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in Indonesia

8 Apr 2025

Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.

Hopes fade for climate cash from carbon price on shipping

8 Apr 2025

Government negotiators look set to agree to keep the money raised by taxing shipping emissions within the maritime sector.

UK to relax electric car rules as US tariffs hit

8 Apr 2025

The government has announced a relaxation of electric vehicle sales targets to help the car industry in the face of trade tariffs from the US.

Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

8 Apr 2025

Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation.

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

7 Apr 2025

The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.

How Trump’s tariffs could spark a new plastic crisis

7 Apr 2025

Amid escalating trade tensions and tariffs on recyclable materials, the president’s policies threaten environmental progress and may drive consumers back to disposable plastics.

Offsets discredited

7 Apr 2025

Eight critical flaws in industry reports expose how misleading data analysis is used to promote the carbon offset industry.

The truth about Trump’s Greenland campaign

7 Apr 2025

When the president talks about security in the Arctic, he’s talking about climate change.

Helsinki energy group Helen's coal-fired power and heat plant

Finland's last active coal-fired power and heat plant shuts down

7 Apr 2025

Finland's last coal-fired power and heat plant in active production will shut down permanently on Tuesday, enabling Helsinki energy group Helen to cut its emissions and put an end to rising energy costs for its customers, its chief executive said.

‘Fossil fuels are killing us’: Major study details how fossil fuels are driving climate, health and biodiversity crises

7 Apr 2025

In a new review published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change, scientists have issued an urgent warning that the fossil fuel industry and its products are driving intertwined crises threatening humans, wildlife and our shared future on this planet.

What Donald Trump’s dramatic US trade war means for global climate action

4 Apr 2025

US President Donald Trump’s new trade war will not only send shockwaves through the global economy – it also upsets efforts to tackle the urgent issue of climate change.

US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive

4 Apr 2025

Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%.

Former world leaders urge EU to hold the line on climate

4 Apr 2025

A group of former world leaders is urging Europe to keep pushing its green agenda even as trade wars and defence spending distract attention from climate issues, Ireland's former President Mary Robinson told Reuters on Tuesday.

Over time, the community has come to embrace the ecological and spiritual significance of the preserve.

Rewilding death in the Appalachian mountains

4 Apr 2025

A growing conservation burial movement is challenging the funeral industry’s environmental footprint while healing the land.

GoSun's 1,100-watt solar charging device for EVs.

New EV solar charger can supply enough power for short daily trips

4 Apr 2025

GoSun, a solar technology company, is accepting deposits for its new EV solar charger. The device mounts onto the roof rack of the car, unfolds over the length of the electric vehicle and plugs into the charging port to turn solar energy into power for the car.

What’s the best way to make the tomato industry more carbon-efficient? Hint: It’s not local.

4 Apr 2025

Tomatoes are the most-farmed vegetable in the world. Researchers set out to quantify the carbon footprint of this ballooning industry—and then identify ways to shrink it.

Macron vows to defend science as host of UN oceans summit

3 Apr 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to defend science from attacks by "major powers" as he tried to rally global support behind an upcoming UN summit on ocean conservation.

China can greatly reduce its reliance on coal, but probably won’t

3 Apr 2025

Even though solar and wind power are growing at a blistering pace.

Properties destroyed as ‘horrendous’ waves batter Sydney coast

3 Apr 2025

Residents have been evacuated, properties flooded and coastal infrastructure damaged after a large swell combined with a king tide to batter the Australian shore.

Behind the scenes at Kyoto: Drama and diplomacy on the world stage

3 Apr 2025

What did it take to get nearly 200 nations to agree on tackling climate change in 1997? And what have we learned in the decades since?

By zapping seawater with electricity, scientists make a solid carbon-negative building material

3 Apr 2025

In a double whammy, the method sucks up carbon dioxide and upcycles it into a material that can be used to make concrete, cement, plaster, and paint.

Is the Earth losing resilience, and does it matter?

3 Apr 2025

Part 2: What the Earth might be telling us about resilience and climate sensitivity.

More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

2 Apr 2025

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’.

Banks see a dire climate future — and ways to profit

2 Apr 2025

Top banks are quietly advising their clients on how to build a financial life raft — or perhaps life yacht — from the wreckage of runaway climate change.

Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals

2 Apr 2025

The damage climate change will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, according to new research by my colleagues and I which accounts for the full global reach of extreme weather and its aftermath.

Study finds deforestation is a leading indicator of Ebola outbreaks

2 Apr 2025

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover. Using machine learning and two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors of where the virus might jump from animals to humans. The model doesn’t prove causation—but it does help identify environmental patterns that could guide preparedness in regions facing rising ecological pressure.

Scientists shielding farming from climate change need more public funding. But they’re getting less

2 Apr 2025

Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. Then the funding stopped.

Disaster as Trump’s energy policy totally disregards climate change

2 Apr 2025

COMMENT: Energy — where we get it, how we use it and what it costs — is fundamental to the quality and stability of modern life. It influences virtually everything we do and affects everything we hope to have in the future.

Rain records to fall in Queensland with Townsville to set new annual high

1 Apr 2025

Queensland cities and towns are dealing with the effects of flooding – including extensive stock losses and widespread damage – after a year’s worth of rain fell in a matter of days.

Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritises fossil fuels

1 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration is terminating grants for two clean energy projects and roughly 300 others funded by the Department of Energy are in jeopardy as the president prioritises fossil fuels.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton

Hosting the UN climate summit is far from ‘madness’ – here’s how Australia stands to benefit

1 Apr 2025

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would withdraw Australia’s bid to co-host next year’s global climate summit if the Coalition wins the federal election.

Commentary: Welcome to the age of Big Oil's managed decline

1 Apr 2025

Top oil and gas companies are losing confidence in the outlook for their core businesses.

London police arrest six people at climate change meeting

1 Apr 2025

British police raided a Quaker meeting house in London on Thursday and arrested six women attending a meeting on climate change and the war in Gaza, according to a statement from Quakers UK.

The case against a carbon credit farm in Madagascar

1 Apr 2025

The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them.

Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis

31 Mar 2025

Christians around the world are being encouraged to take legal action against polluters and those who finance them.

Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed

31 Mar 2025

Today, the ocean that Kahoʻohalahala and so many other Indigenous peoples crossed, cared for, and survived on is on track to be mined for polymetallic nodules.

EU encourages stockpiling of 72 hours of food for emergencies

31 Mar 2025

European households will be encouraged to stockpile 72 hours of food to deal with emergencies, according to a plan to prepare for a crisis proposed on Wednesday by the commission.

Australia
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Sydney records most rain since weather station opened in 1858

Wed 20 Aug 2025

Sydney's wettest August in 27 years has tipped the city's recent climate into uncharted territory.

United States
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A coal-fired plant in Michigan was to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1m a day

Today 11:30am

Donald Trump has made several unusual moves to elongate the era of coal, such as giving the industry exemptions from pollution rules. But the gambit to keep one Michigan coal-fired power station running has been extraordinary – by forcing it to remain open even against the wishes of its operator.

China
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Is historically arid Beijing ready for a wetter future?

Today 11:30am

Beijing's mountainous northern Huairou district and neighbouring Miyun district received a year's worth of rain in a single week, triggering flash floods that devastated entire villages and killed 44 people in the deadliest flood since 2012.

Europe
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EU wildfires hit new record as flames scorch area larger than Cyprus

Today 11:30am

The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.

United Kingdom
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What happens to net zero if the trees don’t survive?

Wed 20 Aug 2025

When climate change undermines the climate plan.

Canada
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Challenges persist in bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump

29 Jul 2025

After years of delay, the deep-sea mining plans of Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) now appear to be progressing as it pursues a controversial new path to securing a license to mine in international waters under U.S. jurisdiction.

Asia
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India needs $467 billion climate finance by 2030 to decarbonise 4 key sectors

Today 11:30am

India will need to mobilise USD $467 billion in climate finance by 2030 to put four of its most carbon-intensive sectors – power, steel, cement and transport – on a low-carbon pathway.

Pacific
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Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say

13 Aug 2025

Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms.

Antarctic/Arctic
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Iconic Antarctic species at risk amid 'regime shift', with 'rapid and self-perpetuating changes'

Fri 22 Aug 2025

Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment.

Africa
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Africa’s top climate change challenges: a fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds

Fri 22 Aug 2025

African countries have made binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To do this, they will need to shift to renewable energy and stop mining and using fossil fuels like oil and coal.

South America
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Bolivia will choose a new president but environmental activists see little hope of progress

Fri 22 Aug 2025

Many Indigenous and environmental leaders doubt the election will bring progress in stopping deforestation, wildfires or pollution in the Amazon.

United Nations
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Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of COP30

Wed 20 Aug 2025

Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans.

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