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In Somalia, Green Climate Fund tests new approach for left-out communities
21 Mar 2024
GCF head Mafalda Duarte promises a more proactive plan to bring cash to the most vulnerable countries struggling with climate impacts.
Connecticut wants to penalise insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
21 Mar 2024
A new bill could impose a fee on any company insuring a fossil-fuel project in the state.
America's first large offshore wind farm opens
20 Mar 2024
America's first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms.
NATO chief says climate change undermines global security
20 Mar 2024
Alongside Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, whose energy-rich country is set to host the COP29 in November, Jens Stoltenberg called climate change a 'crisis multiplier.'
Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal
20 Mar 2024
Shell has abandoned a key climate target for 2035 and weakened another goal for 2030, according to its latest “energy transition strategy”.
Forest carbon's back-end durability problem
20 Mar 2024
Most reforestation projects today ignore natural regrowth in making carbon claims.
Big Oil executives push back against calls for fast energy transition
20 Mar 2024
Top oil executives took to the stage of a major energy conference to vocally oppose calls for a quick move away from fossil fuels, saying society would pay a steep cost to replace oil and gas.
"Red Alert to the world": Record warmth in global oceans hits one-year mark
20 Mar 2024
Global ocean surface temperatures have been at record highs for just over a full year, worrying scientists who don't have a complete understanding of what is driving this trend.
We need to talk about carbon removal
19 Mar 2024
The main global climate science body has warned that large-scale carbon dioxide removal must be a big part of any successful response to climate change — yet the subject has been curiously neglected in the wider climate debate.
The false promise of carbon capture as a climate solution
19 Mar 2024
Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2.
As world saw hottest year on record, corporate news cut coverage
19 Mar 2024
Last year featured not only what scientists worldwide confirmed was the hottest year in human history but also a 25% drop in corporate broadcast networks' coverage of the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency.
Reforestation and restoration: Two ways to make the Pan Amazon greener
19 Mar 2024
One of the benefits of agroforestry and plantation forestry is the ability of tree crops to capture and store carbon in their above-ground biomass.
Study reveals how ancient humans escaped climate extinction 900,000 years ago
19 Mar 2024
According to the results of a genomics study, modern humanity's ancestors were reduced to a breeding population of barely 1,300 individuals in a devastating bottleneck that brought us to the very brink of annihilation.
Six months after the heat spiked, Caribbean corals are still reeling
18 Mar 2024
In deep water and in the shallows, corals cooked by last year’s extreme heat are not doing great.
Germany on course to meet 2030 climate goal, minister says
18 Mar 2024
Germany's climate protection minister has said the country is on target to reduce greenhouse gases by the end of the decade.
Climate change could be a deciding factor in the 2024 election
18 Mar 2024
If you ask American voters what their top issues are, most will point to kitchen-table issues like the economy, inflation, crime, health care or education.
Climate change is bad for your health, wherever you are
18 Mar 2024
Rising temperatures are a threat regardless of where you live on the planet—they’re just dangerous in different ways.
The ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes
18 Mar 2024
Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive.
Why South America’s ‘lithium triangle’ could devastate local communities
18 Mar 2024
Lithium is key in the fight against climate change, but to extract it, mines suck local water supplies dry.
Oil fields release far more methane than thought, study finds
15 Mar 2024
In parts of New Mexico, more than 9% of all natural gas produced goes into the atmosphere, where it acts as a powerful greenhouse gas.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing 'mass bleaching' event
15 Mar 2024
This is the seventh such episode in 26 years, a frequency that's alarming scientists. In all, 98% of its 3,000 reefs have been impacted, home to some 1,500 species of fish.
World in ‘unknown territory’ after heat records, says head of UN’s climate body
15 Mar 2024
IPCC chair Jim Skea believes ‘more science needed’ to understand extraordinary temperatures over past year.
Uber is prodding its riders to choose hybrid or electric—but its new feature masks the dark truth about ride-sharing
15 Mar 2024
Rideshare platforms like Uber have the potential to reduce global greenhouse emissions—but right now, they’re often making more than they save.
What’s slowing down America’s clean energy transition? It’s not the cost
15 Mar 2024
New report finds renewable energy faces organised opposition and grid connectivity issues.
India calls for $1 trillion per year climate finance from next year, submits its proposal to the UNFCCC
15 Mar 2024
India in its latest submission to the UN climate body has called for developed countries to provide “at least” $1 trillion per year in climate finance to developing countries from 2025.
New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
14 Mar 2024
Human Rights Watch has detailed forced evictions, property destruction and violence against Indigenous communities living within a REDD+ carbon offset project area in southwest Cambodia.
Coral reef restoration can help provide ‘full recovery’ within four years, study finds
14 Mar 2024
One of the most visible indicators of ocean surface temperature warming due to climate change is the bleaching of coral reefs.
Researchers coax people to envision greener cities using AI images of familiar streets
14 Mar 2024
By cleverly combining advertising techniques with artificial intelligence, the team increased support for a sustainable transportation bill—particularly among republicans.
John Kerry: ‘I feel deeply frustrated’
14 Mar 2024
When former Secretary of State John Kerry stepped into a newly created post as America’s top climate diplomat in 2021, the reputation of the United States abroad was, in his words, “in the crapper.”
Can cities drive SUVs off their streets?
14 Mar 2024
From parking fees in Paris to registration fees in Washington D.C., forward-thinking cities are slapping heavy penalties on heavy vehicles.
Apple waste, spider silk, enhanced cotton could replace plastic in our clothing
14 Mar 2024
Biomaterials companies are using new materials to create high-performance textiles — without plastic.
UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
13 Mar 2024
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.7% in 2023 to their lowest level since 1879, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.
“Meat and dairy should be suing oil and gas”
13 Mar 2024
Instead of copying Big Oil's climate playbook, the animal agriculture industry should be seeking damages for it, a researcher argues.
US leads global oil production for sixth straight year
13 Mar 2024
US crude oil production led global oil production for a sixth straight year, with a record breaking average production of 12.9 million barrels per day (bpd), the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said.
Progress, retreat or compromise: How will climate disclosure rule fare?
13 Mar 2024
Climate policy is facing a global backlash: farmers’ protests in Europe, opposition of renewable energy projects, businesses withdrawing from climate alliances, and the reluctance to use the ESG concept in corporate communication.
Five things we learned from the EU’s big (and first) climate risk report
13 Mar 2024
Farming must change. Diets must evolve. Southern Europe is at risk. And disaster looms if EU leaders don’t act after June’s election.
Why did geologists reject the “Anthropocene” epoch? It’s not rock science.
13 Mar 2024
Scientists dealt a resounding blow this week in a long-running fight over one big question: Have humans messed up the Earth so badly that we’re now living in a new climate epoch?
Livestock industry co-opts academics to downplay its climate impact, study says
12 Mar 2024
Academic centres at UC Davis and Colorado State University have accepted big donations from the livestock industry, according to a new study of the industry’s influence on climate research and policy.
How developing nations battered by climate change are crushed by debt from international lenders
12 Mar 2024
A new UN report describes the interplay between natural disasters made worse by climate change, compounding debt and the resulting inability to fund social welfare programs.
Europe must do more against ‘catastrophic’ climate risks
12 Mar 2024
Europe could suffer “catastrophic” consequences from climate change if it fails to take urgent and decisive action to adapt to risks, a new EU analysis warned.
Pioneering agricultural resilience and sustainability in the face of climate change
12 Mar 2024
With climate change and growing global populations posing increasing threats to food security, the quest for agricultural sustainability and the resilience of crop yields becomes paramount.
BP's carbon emissions rise for the first time since 2019
12 Mar 2024
BP says its overall carbon emissions climbed in 2023 for the first time since 2019 as the company started up new oil and gas projects and increased its production levels.
UN and France co-host forum in Paris to decarbonise construction sector
12 Mar 2024
France and the UN Environment Programme co-hosted the Buildings and Climate Global Forum to find ways to cut the sizeable carbon footprint of the construction sector, a major contributor to climate change.
Climate change pushes Malaysia’s coastal fishermen away from the sea
11 Mar 2024
On an overcast morning six years ago, Mohammad Ridhwan Mohd Yazid was on his way back to Malaysia’s southern Johor coast when his small fishing boat was caught in a sudden storm.
More climate records fall in world's warmest February
11 Mar 2024
Last month was the world's warmest February in modern times, the EU's climate service says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a row.
Fossil fuel firms seek UN carbon market cash for old gas plants
11 Mar 2024
Fossil fuel companies are aiming to profit from a new United Nations’ carbon market by selling carbon credits linked to gas-fired power plants they have already built.
AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation – report
11 Mar 2024
Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has warned.
Toyota is hitting the gas on hybrids as EV sales cool. But what does that mean for the planet?
11 Mar 2024
It was just over a year ago that Toyota appeared to acknowledge it had dropped the ball on electric vehicles.
Social sciences can help explain why the world is not moving fast enough on climate change
11 Mar 2024
In late 2023 the United States government released its Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA).
How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
8 Mar 2024
With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
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.
Some inconvenient truths in bringing climate science to the judiciary
Today 11:45am
OPINION: Climate science had been knocking on the courthouse doors for quite some time when the Supreme Court of the United States finally invited it into the realm of legal action in 2007.
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.
Risk of drought in UK grows after unusually dry start to spring
Today 11:45am
The risk of drought is rising after an unusually dry start to spring has pushed river flow, groundwater and reservoir stores below normal levels across much of the country, especially in central and southern England.
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.
While the world hesitates, India must continue leading on climate
Today 11:45am
India’s updated climate targets must translate into systems that secure growth, resilience, and autonomy.
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.
