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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.
State of the climate: 2024 now very likely to be warmest year on record
30 Jul 2024
As 2024 passes its midpoint, the global climate continues to push into uncharted territory.
Yellen says $3 trillion needed annually for climate financing, far more than current level
30 Jul 2024
US Treasury Secretary said that the global transition to a low-carbon economy requires $3 trillion in new capital each year through 2050, far above current annual financing.
UK’s Labour will honour pledge of £11.6bn in overseas climate aid
30 Jul 2024
Labour will honour a pledge of £11.6bn in overseas aid for the climate crisis, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, told an unusual meeting of COP presidents past and present.
Wildfires push devastation and spread smoke across US West
30 Jul 2024
Firefighters made progress over the weekend in the battle against wildfires covering massive areas in the western United States, but further evacuations have been necessary.
Electric vehicles strain the automaker-big oil alliance
30 Jul 2024
In the clean car battle, the oil industry leans on friends—including Donald Trump—to keep gasoline transport alive, while carmakers steer toward an EV future.
Help us, methane mitigation. You’re our only hope.
30 Jul 2024
Rob Jackson, climate scientist and chair of the Global Carbon Project, argues that restoring methane to preindustrial levels is the best lever to limit global heating in the next few decades.
UN Secretary-General says the world must turbocharge the fossil fuel phaseout
29 Jul 2024
As a new report shows accelerating warming threatens 70 percent of the world’s workers, Antonio Guterres warns that wealthy countries expanding fossil fuel industries “are signing away our future.”
‘This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel state
29 Jul 2024
No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as the US does now and Louisiana is ground zero.
Arctic warming plays a devastating role in accelerating global heating
29 Jul 2024
Buried beneath the icy surface of the Arctic tundra lie secrets that hold the key to understanding global climate patterns and their changes over time.
The great climate change wealth transfer is here
29 Jul 2024
There has rarely been a better time to be a seller of fossil fuels — nor a worse time to be exposed to their effects.
Paris Olympics promote sustainability for good reason
29 Jul 2024
Europe is in the midst of a heat wave, and while Olympic athletes in Paris for the 2024 Summer Games might be spared the worst of it, the weather will still be hot.
It’s time for Azerbaijan to shift gears on diplomacy ahead of COP29
29 Jul 2024
COMMENT: Amid record-breaking climate impacts, the COP29 host nation needs to ramp up action for an ambitious outcome in Baku.
Scientists discover trees absorb methane – so forests are even more important in the climate fight than we thought
26 Jul 2024
Tree bark in the world’s forests absorbs the greenhouse gas methane – a discovery that could have big implications for tackling climate change.
A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked
26 Jul 2024
Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion.
Landmark lawsuit challenges Britain’s climate change adaptation plan
26 Jul 2024
In a landmark climate case, Friends of the Earth and two people whose lives have been severely affected by the changing climate are suing the government of the United Kingdom over its failure to safeguard people, property and infrastructure against foreseeable effects of the climate crisis.
Tasmanian 'Eco-Milk' tests shoppers' thirst for climate-friendly dairy
26 Jul 2024
A small dairy in Tasmania is stocking supermarket shelves with what it says is the world's first branded milk produced by cows fed with a seaweed that makes them emit lower levels of environmentally damaging methane gas.
NSW to ban new coalmines in major shake-up for $23bn industry
Mon 23 Mar 2026
A major shake-up is on the way for one Australian state’s single biggest export, which powers homes here and abroad.
US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan
Tue 24 Mar 2026
As a fuel crisis triggered by the war in Iran drives up global fossil fuel prices, the Trump administration has announced it will pay French energy major TotalEnergies $1bn to kill plans to construct wind farms off the US east coast.
China tells oil refiners to suspend exports
Fri 20 Mar 2026
China has told its largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing unidentified sources, as the war in the Middle East risks an energy supply crunch.
Spain’s Sánchez attacks other EU leaders for exploiting energy prices to gut climate policies
Mon 23 Mar 2026
Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez said his country was on “the right side of history” when it comes to how it has handled the economic and social costs of previous energy crises.
Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought
Tue 24 Mar 2026
Emissions from the new data centres set to drive the UK’s AI “revolution” could be hundreds of times higher than government estimates, according to analysis by Carbon Brief.
Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change
17 Feb 2026
COMMENT: Mark Carney's time as prime minister has been defined in part by his decision to roll back Trudeau-era climate policies.
Asia pivots to coal as Middle East conflict chokes LNG supply
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Asian utilities are boosting coal-fired power generation to cut costs and safeguard energy supply, industry officials say, as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran chokes liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments and soaring prices threaten to suppress LNG demand.
Pacific Nations fear fuel shortages as Middle East war sends oil prices soaring
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Leaders of Samoa and Tonga appealed for help this week as the import-reliant Pacific nations raised fears over possible fuel shortages and escalating costs caused by war in the Middle East.
Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula
24 Feb 2026
Keeping global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial temperatures is “crucial” for limiting damage to the Antarctic Peninsula’s unique ecosystems, according to a new study.
'Blackwater' lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are now emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere
16 Mar 2026
Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin's peatlands for millennia is seeping into lakes and rivers. Why this is happening remains unclear, but researchers warn that tropical peatlands could be nearing a tipping point.
Surfing’s big break: how climate crisis insurance may save El Salvador’s waves
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Fearing that extreme weather threatened its epic breaks, Oriente Salvaje is piloting the first surf insurance policy to protect livelihoods and ecosystems.
Iran war should trigger faster exit from fossil fuel dependence, UN climate chief says
18 Mar 2026
The disruption to energy markets caused by the Iran war is a lesson on the risks of relying on fossil fuels which should drive governments to wean their economies off oil and gas faster, the U.N. climate secretary told Reuters on Monday.
