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Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says
19 Aug 2024
New research shows that a mix of natural forest regrowth and tree planting could remove up to 10 times more carbon at $20 per metric ton than previously estimated by the IPCC, the UN’s climate science panel.
How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe
19 Aug 2024
For decades, the oceans have absorbed much of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gases. The latest observations suggest they are reaching their limits, so how worried should we be?
We pumped extra CO₂ into an oak forest and discovered trees will be ‘woodier’ in future
19 Aug 2024
Oak trees accumulate more wood when there is more carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere.
Fighting global warming, one abandoned oil well at a time
19 Aug 2024
When Curtis Shuck learned that the oil and gas industry had left orphaned wells all over the US, he made it his mission to cap as many as he could.
A Trump election win could lead to billions of tonnes more carbon pollution
16 Aug 2024
Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs.
World Bank prices $225 million bond linked to Amazon reforestation
16 Aug 2024
The World Bank issued a $225 million, principal-protected nine-year bond linked to reforestation in the Amazon, the global lender said on Tuesday, calling it the biggest outcome bond it has ever priced.
Wildfires in Canada and the Amazon made more likely by climate change
16 Aug 2024
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense as the climate warms, researchers behind first annual global wildfire report warn.
Ancient building material could cut modern industry emissions
16 Aug 2024
Generating heat for industrial processes creates 17% of global carbon emissions. Cheap firebricks could store renewable electricity for one-tenth the cost of batteries.
Kids in France are pedalling toward two-wheeled equality
16 Aug 2024
More than 500,000 students have learned to bike safely, encouraging them to live healthier, more independent and lower-carbon lives.
Carbon offset setback risks corporate backtrack on climate goals
15 Aug 2024
Stalled efforts to expand companies' use of carbon credits to offset greenhouse-gas emissions are raising the prospect that some will backtrack or abandon targets to shrink their carbon footprint.
Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s
15 Aug 2024
Unicef analysis also finds children in eight countries spend more than half the year in temperatures above 35C.
Who is legally responsible for climate harms? The world’s top court will now decide
15 Aug 2024
The International Court of Justice will clarify states’ legal responsibility for impacts of climate change. Although non-binding, its opinion will matter for thousands of climate lawsuits.
Tropical Storm Ernesto hits Caribbean, heads to Puerto Rico
15 Aug 2024
Tropical Storm Ernesto battered the northeast Caribbean on Tuesday as it took aim at Puerto Rico, where officials shuttered schools and government agencies.
Wildfires can contaminate the water farmers use to irrigate crops and support livestock
15 Aug 2024
The wildfires that burned across Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 became the deadliest conflagration in the United States in more than a century.
How four cities are cooling down creatively
15 Aug 2024
Cities around the world are trying everything from reflective paint to underground water channels to manage the hotter days ahead.
Australian fossil fuel exports ranked second only to Russia for climate damage with ‘no plan’ for reduction
14 Aug 2024
Coal and gas exports expected to remain roughly at current level until at least 2035 with 4.5% of emissions linked to Australia, report finds.
More than 47,000 heat-related deaths in Europe last year
14 Aug 2024
Heat-related deaths in Europe last year would have been 80% higher without adaptation work, scientists estimate.
Modern fuel-efficient jets can cause more warming than older planes
14 Aug 2024
Passenger planes and private jets that fly higher can create longer-lasting contrails, meaning their contribution to global warming has been underestimated.
Will climate cash help democrats win US election?
14 Aug 2024
An area near Pittsburgh is being recast into a clean energy hub by IRA cash. It’s a test of whether climate policies can help Democrats beat Trump.
The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
14 Aug 2024
It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated.
A line-by-line fact check of the Musk-Trump interview
14 Aug 2024
Donald Trump told some wild lies about climate change in his two-hour live-streamed conversation with Elon Musk last night.
Breakthrough flexible solar panels are so thin they can be printed on any surface – even backpacks
13 Aug 2024
Oxford University researchers have developed a flexible perovskite material about 100 times thinner than a human hair that can generate solar electricity just as efficiently as traditional silicon panels.
Wary of Trump and Azerbaijan, businesses shun COP climate talks
13 Aug 2024
Companies are anxiously wondering: Can we get hotel rooms? What about the autocratic regime hosting? What if Trump wins?
Chinese battery industry faces consolidation wave
13 Aug 2024
Companies cancel investments and smaller players leave amid slowing EV sales, fierce competition and stricter regulations.
UK could approve 13 new oil and gas projects despite North Sea pledge
13 Aug 2024
The UK government could approve 13 new oil and gas projects in the North Sea, with the fuel produced emitting 350m tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) if burned.
Why is there still a gap between public opinion and scientific consensus, and how can we close it?
13 Aug 2024
As children, many of us played the “telephone” game – a message is whispered from one person to the next, invariably getting distorted as it passes along the line.
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.
Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree – except Queensland
Wed 13 May 2026
Power hungry datacentres that are growing to meet the demands of artificial intelligence could be forced to invest in enough new solar and wind generation to completely cover their electricity needs.
US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry
Wed 13 May 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air permits, the latest move by the Trump administration to ease regulatory burdens on American power plants and industry.
China’s leadership calls for ‘strict control’ of fossil fuels
28 Apr 2026
Chinese government leaders published a policy document on 22 April – Earth Day – calling for stricter controls on fossil-fuel consumption and greater oversight of heavy emitters.
Inequality causing 100,000 extra deaths a year from heat and cold in Europe
Tue 12 May 2026
Economic inequality adds more than 100,000 deaths to the vast toll from heat and cold in Europe each year, research has found.
Nature recovery zones inspired by Attenborough
Tue 12 May 2026
A wildlife trust has been inspired by Sir David Attenborough's climate change mantra to designate 11 nature recovery zones in honour of the broadcaster's 100th birthday.
Carbon capture ‘doesn’t work’: Former British Columbia premier
Fri 8 May 2026
Former British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell warned the costly, troubled technology has failed to deliver, undercutting a central justification for billions in public subsidies and new oil infrastructure.
Climate change, socioeconomic shifts threaten Nepal’s yak herding traditions
7 May 2026
According to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), warming temperatures are fundamentally altering Himalayan high-altitude ecosystems.
How climate change threatens the economic backbone of the Pacific
4 May 2026
The vast Pacific Ocean and the islands dotted within it produce more than half of the world's tuna.
‘Triple whammy of climate chaos’: Why Antarctica's sea ice collapse is no longer a mystery
Mon 11 May 2026
Scientists have finally identified the ‘triple whammy’ behind Antarctica’s dramatic collapse, shedding new light on the chain reaction that has pushed its sea ice to record lows.
With its first marine reserve, Ghana protects its ocean to secure its future
5 May 2026
Comment: Last month, Ghana made news when it declared its first marine reserve and sited it in one of the nation’s most ecologically and biologically significant marine environments.
The country where lethal hantavirus cases are on the rise. Experts blame climate change
Wed 13 May 2026
Experts believe environmental degradation caused by climate change and human activity is contributing to its spread by allowing the rodents that transmit the virus to thrive in new areas.
UN methane alert system expanded to coal and waste sectors after Indian landfill named among world’s top emitters
6 May 2026
The United Nations is expanding its methane monitoring system to cover coal mines and waste facilities, after satellite analysis identified a landfill in India among the world’s three largest methane-emitting sites.
