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Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions
12 Aug 2024
This spring, Democrats wrapped up a nearly three-year investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in climate disinformation, and asked the Department of Justice to pick up where they left off.
Renewable energy carbon credits rejected by high-integrity scheme
12 Aug 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market decided existing renewables methodologies don’t do enough to prove their emissions reductions are additional.
From climate change to landfill, AI promises to solve Earth’s big environmental problems – but there’s a hitch
12 Aug 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised our lives in myriad ways, from personalising our social media feeds to giving us driving directions and monitoring our health.
July ends 13-month streak of global heat records, but experts warn against relief
12 Aug 2024
Climate scientists say that the world is continuing to warm, despite brief respite in record breaking temperatures.
Carbon ‘insets’ tackle emissions by unleashing the power of capitalism
12 Aug 2024
The certificates trace reduction instead of offsetting it with unconnected activity like planting trees.
Kyoto tells us how humanity can come together on climate change
12 Aug 2024
A play celebrates the agreement that opened nations worldwide to accepting the science of climate change.
Great Barrier Reef endangered by hottest oceans in 400 years, study finds
9 Aug 2024
Researchers say the world is losing ‘one of our icons’ as human activity fuels temperature increases.
Solving the carbon market ‘integrity crisis’
9 Aug 2024
It’s been a rough couple of years for the voluntary carbon market, with allegations about the shaky integrity of various projects, and a huge slump in demand.
Wildfires are creating their own thunderstorms
9 Aug 2024
As wildfires become more frequent and intense, they’re creating raging thunderstorms that fuel them even further, making them much more difficult to fight.
Tim Walz’s green resume has an oily stain
9 Aug 2024
Indigenous water protectors say Walz broke his promise to stop a massive tar sands pipeline from passing through their protected land.
US, India, Russia, Japan are building out wind power much too slowly for climate change, report says
9 Aug 2024
The world is falling well short of a promise made at global climate talks last year to triple the amount of wind power, according to a report by an energy think tank.
Repeating aids believing: climate misinformation feels more true through repetition
9 Aug 2024
If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a sceptic’s claim could shift your views.
Carbon market faces upheaval as 32% of all credits fail test
8 Aug 2024
The market for carbon offsets faces renewed upheaval after a major category of credits failed to win approval from a key oversight body.
Should companies get paid when governments phase out fossil fuels? They already are.
8 Aug 2024
A common part of free trade agreements helps fossil fuel companies force big payouts from governments phasing out oil and gas projects.
IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report
8 Aug 2024
Delegates at the 61st meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Sofia, Bulgaria have failed to agree on a timeline for the upcoming seventh assessment report.
Cooking oil won’t be enough to make aviation sustainable
8 Aug 2024
Pressure is growing to boost the production of sustainable aviation fuels, but each solution has big drawbacks.
Deforestation harms climate less than other types of Amazon degradation, study finds
8 Aug 2024
Brazil's President came into office in 2023 pledging to tackle deforestation in the Amazon and restore his country as a climate leader after years of intense destruction in the world's largest rainforest under predecessor.
Is carbon capture an efficient way to tackle CO2?
8 Aug 2024
It could be a scene from science fiction. Towering over dark, mossy lava fields are stacks of noisy machines the size of shipping containers, domes, and zig-zagging silver pipes.
International Energy Agency’s divisive mission to decide the future of oil
7 Aug 2024
The International Energy Agency forecasts that the world will reach peak oil in 2029. Oil companies accuse it of playing climate politics.
China plans new carbon emission controls as it aims for 2030 peak
7 Aug 2024
China will accelerate the development of a carbon emissions control system to help it achieve its goal of reaching a peak in the emissions of the climate-warming gases by 2030.
Brazil’s Carvalho to lead seabed-mining authority following predecessor’s controversial term
7 Aug 2024
Brazilian oceanographer Leticia Carvalho has been named the next secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) after winning an election that could change the course of the deep-sea mining industry.
South Korea boils in summer heat that may set new records
7 Aug 2024
As South Korea swelters under summer heat that looks set to break records, newspaper headlines are using words mostly reserved for describing high-heat culinary techniques.
Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress
7 Aug 2024
There are 23 climate denialists in the Senate and 100 in the House, making the US an outlier internationally.
Tropical Storm Debby could prove just as dangerous as a major hurricane
7 Aug 2024
Tropical Storm Debby came ashore in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane Monday and quickly downgraded, but the storm still poses serious threats as it slogs on toward Georgia and South Carolina.
Not all companies disclose emissions from their investments, and that’s a problem for investors
6 Aug 2024
A new study puts a number on the scale of unreported emissions from oil and gas companies’ investments.
Brazil minister warns carbon credit buyers to beware fraud
6 Aug 2024
Environment minister Marina Silva says alleged criminal schemes in Amazon could harm the reputation of credits.
‘Unacceptable’: Red flag for huge Australian gas project
6 Aug 2024
Australia's federal government could be forced into a potential choice between environmental protection and its commitment to long-term gas supply to Australia’s trading partners.
Canada's growing conservative backlash against carbon capture and storage
6 Aug 2024
Earlier this year a far-right group called Canada Proud began running Facebook ads to its more than 534,000 followers attacking the climate change technology favoured by conservative leaders as well as the country’s largest oil and gas producers.
Why rainfall is becoming much less predictable – and what it means for the planet
6 Aug 2024
A study looking at data from the last century has found weather patterns have become more variable as global warming has increased.
Harris grabs green new deal network endorsement that eluded Biden
5 Aug 2024
The coalition of progressive youth and environmental justice groups are confident they can help give the presumptive Democratic nominee a needed edge with the base, even as the Trump team seeks to paint her as a radical.
Are you talking about the climate wrong?
5 Aug 2024
The idea that the climate debate can be neatly divided into two competing camps — with deniers on the right and advocates on the left — is one of the many myths exposed in a new book.
‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points
5 Aug 2024
Every increment of global warming above 1.5C increases the risk of crossing key tipping points in the Earth system – even if the overshoot is only temporary, says new research.
China records hottest month in recent history
5 Aug 2024
China had its hottest month in observed modern history in July, Chinese state media reported, mirroring record hot weather seen around the world last month.
Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave
5 Aug 2024
Ground temperatures across great swathes of the ice sheets of Antarctica have soared an average of 10C above normal over the past month, in what has been described as a near record heatwave.
Extreme ‘heat dome’ hitting Olympics ‘impossible’ without global heating
2 Aug 2024
Scorching temperatures in Mediterranean countries and north Africa already causing increase in premature deaths.
Drillers emit far more methane than estimates
2 Aug 2024
US oil and gas basins are emitting around four times more planet-warming methane than federal regulators have estimated, according to the results of an aerial survey released.
How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat
2 Aug 2024
Last month the UK became the first country in Europe to approve the sale of meat grown in a laboratory, giving the green light to a pet food made of cell-cultivated chicken.
IPCC must produce flagship report in time for next UN global stocktake
2 Aug 2024
Comment: An IPCC author from the Global South on why aligning the two timelines is crucial for the integrity of international climate cooperation.
Wildfire highlights climate change risk to world heritage sites
2 Aug 2024
Climate change and extreme weather events pose a real risk to the world’s heritage sites — a stark reality laid bare by the recent wildfire in Jasper, Alta.
Hopes of finding survivors wane after landslide deaths in India
2 Aug 2024
Hopes of finding more than 180 missing people alive waned as rescue workers searched through mud and debris for a third day in southern India.
Airline’s dumped climate goal opens door for industry to follow
1 Aug 2024
Air New Zealand's decision to ditch its 2030 emissions target suggests more airlines will also have to confront a harsh reality: There’s simply not enough sustainable fuel or new, more-efficient aircraft.
Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn
1 Aug 2024
Global emissions of methane, a powerful planet-heating gas, are “rising rapidly” at the fastest rate in decades, requiring immediate action to help avert a dangerous escalation in the climate crisis, a new study has warned.
World's forests failed to curb 2023 climate emissions, study finds
1 Aug 2024
Forests and other land ecosystems failed to curb climate change in 2023 as intense drought in the Amazon rainforest and record wildfires in Canada hampered their natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
Supercharged by climate change, western megafires explode simultaneously
1 Aug 2024
In western North America, wildfire season is in full swing—and well on its way toward setting records.
The climate is changing so fast that we haven’t seen how bad extreme weather could get
1 Aug 2024
Extreme weather is by definition rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst.
For the best forest restoration ROI, focus on the least and most logged places
1 Aug 2024
Researchers working in an experimental forest in Borneo showed that forest ecosystems undergo sudden shifts when logging reaches certain thresholds.
SBTi details possible uses of carbon credits despite finding little evidence they work
31 Jul 2024
The referee on corporate net-zero targets is at the forefront of a debate over the legitimacy of offsets.
Study offers new policy tool for considering ‘Indigenous climate justice’
31 Jul 2024
Addressing climate justice calls for a “fundamental, decolonial constitutional change”, according to a new study published in Climate Policy.
Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way
31 Jul 2024
Public funding helped electric vehicles go mainstream. Are alternative proteins next — or are they too polarising?
Climate change causing more change in rainfall, fiercer typhoons, scientists say
31 Jul 2024
Climate change is driving changes in rainfall patterns across the world scientists said, which could also be intensifying typhoons and other tropical storms.
No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act
Today 11:00am
Any week now, Australia will set its 2035 emissions target. It must signal the nation’s strong ambition on climate action, to drive policy and investment. And it must avoid being seen as either unrealistic or too costly.
California is backsliding on climate progress. It’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault
Today 11:00am
The California Supreme Court just gave state officials a golden opportunity to revitalize the rooftop solar industry, helping millions of homes and businesses lower their electric bills and fight the climate crisis.
Is historically arid Beijing ready for a wetter future?
Mon 25 Aug 2025
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.
EU wildfires hit new record as flames scorch area larger than Cyprus
Mon 25 Aug 2025
The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.
What happens to net zero if the trees don’t survive?
Wed 20 Aug 2025
When climate change undermines the climate plan.
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.
India needs $467 billion climate finance by 2030 to decarbonise 4 key sectors
Mon 25 Aug 2025
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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
