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What oil actually costs
27 Mar 2026
The war in Iran has everyone talking about the price of oil. But that number only reflects a small fraction of what oil actually costs.
Signs of jet fuel hoarding emerge in Asia on Iran oil shock
26 Mar 2026
Signs are growing that Asian countries are hoarding jet fuel after the Iran war sent oil prices surging, reflecting growing strain on the aviation industry.
Iran war may halve India's LPG imports in March, according to traders, data
26 Mar 2026
The war in Iran and the blockage of the strategic Strait of Hormuz are likely to halve this month's imports of liquefied petroleum gas by India, its number-two importer, according to traders and ship-tracking data.
Solar is Southeast Asia’s cheapest buffer against future shocks
26 Mar 2026
Southeast Asian countries’ planned expansion of gas power could increase the cost of generating electricity to $109 billion by 2030 based on future price projections — more than double the cost of generating the same amount of electricity with solar.
Seabed mining talks show key issues remain unresolved
26 Mar 2026
Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, an international body tasked with regulating the emerging industry ended a key global meeting this week without a new mining code.
Beef production drives 40% of agriculture-linked forest destruction, Brazil leads
26 Mar 2026
Beef production is the leading driver of agriculture-linked deforestation, accounting for 40% of all forest clearing done to open space for food production, according to details of a study released on Tuesday.
Why the Iran war may have just killed the AI boom
26 Mar 2026
The $1.5 trillion in committed AI infrastructure spending by major tech companies is built on an assumption of a functional global supply chain, which the Iran conflict has fundamentally broken.
California sues Trump energy department over revival of controversial oil pipeline
25 Mar 2026
California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, said he has sued the US energy department to stop it from using a cold-war-era law to restart the long-disputed Sable Offshore pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries.
Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in England green tech drive
25 Mar 2026
Developers will be required to install solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes in England as part of updated planning requirements published by the government.
Climate-fuelled wildfires and dust storms drove up air pollution around the world last year
25 Mar 2026
A new report shows air pollution threatens the majority of the world’s population, while information gaps increase the risks.
Security group warns Australia’s democracy is being threatened by ‘anti-climate-action propaganda’
25 Mar 2026
Australia’s democracy and sovereignty is being threatened by a propaganda machine aiding climate change deniers, a security group has warned.
UK regulator to investigate climate change denial complaints for first time since 2017
25 Mar 2026
Regulator makes U-turn over complaints after claims it let some broadcasters ‘spout dangerous climate lies’.
Philippines declares national emergency over high fuel prices
25 Mar 2026
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines declared a national energy emergency on Tuesday, saying that high oil prices caused by the war in the Middle East were threatening the country’s energy security.
Oil tumbles nearly 11% after Trump puts hold on U.S. strikes against Iran energy infrastructure for five days
24 Mar 2026
Oil prices tumbled after President Donald Trump said the U.S. and Iran had productive talks and that he has ordered a halt on strikes against key Iranian energy infrastructure.
Groundbreaking study finds a natural way to fight climate change
24 Mar 2026
This first-of-its-kind study found beavers have a surprisingly efficient method of safely storing carbon dioxide.
US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan
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.
You can bet on climate disasters – business is booming
24 Mar 2026
Traders are placing wagers on the likelihood of disasters, activists being jailed and oil depots exploding.
Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought
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.
The US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change
24 Mar 2026
An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in the United States: 108 degrees. It’s an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.
Work from home and slow down on the road: World’s energy watchdog advises emergency measures as oil prices rise
23 Mar 2026
IEA makes 10 recommendations to help households and businesses prepare for a drawn-out disruption to energy markets.
NSW to ban new coalmines in major shake-up for $23bn industry
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.
UK climate aid cuts ‘short-sighted’ and leave ‘fossil fuel profits untouched’, campaigners say
23 Mar 2026
Campaigners have condemned the UK government's decision to cut its international climate finance as "extremely short-sighted" and a "moral abdication," warning the move threatens national security, abandons communities on the frontlines of climate change, and leaves "windfall profits from fossil fuels untouched".
Thousands remain under evacuation orders in Hawaii flooding
23 Mar 2026
Flooding across Oahu is now the worst Hawaii has seen in over 20 years. More than 230 people have been rescued so far. Some 5,500 people remain under evacuation orders in part because of rising water levels at the Wahiawa dam.
Spain’s Sánchez attacks other EU leaders for exploiting energy prices to gut climate policies
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.
Clean fuel producers reject airline concerns over SAF mandates
23 Mar 2026
The EU requires the gradual replacement of kerosene with 'sustainable aviation fuels' but operators fear scarcity and fines.
Middle East war: Why tit-for-tat attacks on gasfields are a major escalation
20 Mar 2026
The strikes on so-called upstream gas production facilities by both sides of the Middle East war mark a significant escalation and could have long-term consequences.
Pacific Nations fear fuel shortages as Middle East war sends oil prices soaring
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.
Fossil fuels? No thanks. Why Trump’s Iran war is pushing EU toward renewables.
20 Mar 2026
EU countries may argue about the short-term fixes for high energy prices, but agree that clean power is the best long-term bet.
Ten EU members press Brussels to keep giving industry free carbon permits
20 Mar 2026
Ten European Union member states have called on the bloc to keep handing out free carbon permits to industry to help curb costs as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran sends energy prices soaring.
China tells oil refiners to suspend exports
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.
Could oil hit $200 a barrel? Analysts no longer think it is far-fetched
20 Mar 2026
Prices are likely to rise substantially if the Strait of Hormuz remains, in effect, closed, market watchers say.
Countries slash workweek and enact strict AC and elevator bans in ‘energy triage’
19 Mar 2026
The escalating war with Iran is pushing parts of the world into energy triage, forcing governments to choose where to cut demand or absorb costs, while prioritising dwindling supplies.
Asia pivots to coal as Middle East conflict chokes LNG supply
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.
Climate change is the latest weapon in warfare. Trump is indulging it
19 Mar 2026
The Iran war shows how fossil fuels, conflict and planetary crisis are now inseparable.
Global warming could make exercise harder and kill 500,000 more people a year, study warns
19 Mar 2026
Analysing data from 156 countries, researchers say each additional month of extreme heat could significantly increase global inactivity levels, especially in lower-income regions.
European carbon prices slide as EU considers intervening in market
19 Mar 2026
Europe's carbon price fell by more than 5% on Tuesday after the European Commission President said the bloc would consider making more carbon emissions permits available to help curb high energy prices.
Surfing’s big break: how climate crisis insurance may save El Salvador’s waves
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.
IEA to consider release of more oil reserves as Iran war keeps prices high
18 Mar 2026
The world’s energy watchdog will consider releasing further emergency crude stocks into the global market to cool rising oil prices after warning that it will take time for markets to recover from the ongoing crisis in the strait of Hormuz.
US National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
18 Mar 2026
State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
Spring, climate change, jet stream serves up buffet of wild weather hitting US
18 Mar 2026
Nearly every type of wild weather hit some part of the United States on Monday as the normal changing seasons clash of cold and warm air collided with a jet stream gone crazy and a possible dash of climate change, meteorologists and scientist said.
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.
Fossil fuel propaganda is evolving
18 Mar 2026
A new analysis of nearly 2,000 fossil fuel ads finds Big Oil has moved from green promises to insisting oil and gas are inevitable. (They're not).
New York cooks up a plan to boost energy efficiency in public housing
18 Mar 2026
The state plans to pay for induction stoves to be installed in 10,000 apartments across New York City. A Bronx walk-up provides an early look at what’s to come.
Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025
17 Mar 2026
Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany have again missed targets set by the Climate Protection Act and barely fell at all in 2025.
When will clean energy spending exceed military spending?
17 Mar 2026
COMMENT: While it had seemed that global clean energy spending was about to overtake military spending, the advent of a more conflict-ridden era is causing the most rapid growth in global military spending since at least the Cold War.
How the meat industry is quietly keeping its emissions off the climate agenda
17 Mar 2026
Meat and dairy giants have been accused of halting climate progress by cosying up to policymakers to justify the soaring growth of animal agriculture.
Trump administration sues California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission rules
17 Mar 2026
The Trump administration ramped up a battle with California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission standards Thursday, suing air regulators over rules aimed at curbing pollution from cars.
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
17 Mar 2026
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
World faces largest-ever oil supply disruption on Middle East war, IEA says
16 Mar 2026
The war in the Middle East is creating the biggest oil supply disruption in history, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, a day after it agreed to release a record volume from strategic stockpiles to offset shortages and a spike in prices.
‘We make a lot of money’: Trump downplays rise in gas prices during Iran war
16 Mar 2026
Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off the economic toll the war in Iran is taking on gas prices across the United States, writing on social media that “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money”.
Aus power prices to fall for most customers, with bigger drops for businesses
Thu 28 May 2026
Surging levels of renewable energy and better reliability from coal-fired generators are set to give consumers a break, with benchmark power prices to fall up to 10 per cent for consumers and more for small businesses.
Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights
Thu 28 May 2026
US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world.
Can China turn hydrogen into its next clean-energy industry?
Fri 29 May 2026
China has said that hydrogen is a key “future industry”, important to both its energy transition and its industrial policy.
Europe heatwave 'brutal reminder' of climate change: UN
Thu 28 May 2026
The UN climate chief said Wednesday that a record-breaking early heatwave scorching a swathe of western Europe was "a brutal reminder of the spiraling impacts of the climate crisis".
Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’ without urgent action, experts say
Fri 29 May 2026
Industry figures warn of national security risk and call for ministers to address the impact of extreme weather, inflation and Iran war.
Canada signs landmark LNG energy deal with Germany
Fri 29 May 2026
Canada has announced a landmark energy agreement with Germany that will see the first-ever long-term shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Canada to Europe in the coming years.
Indian city records 48.2C temperature as sizzling heatwave empties roads
Tue 26 May 2026
The India Meteorological Department forecast maximum temperatures Thursday of around 45 degrees Celsius in the capital, Delhi, where authorities have opened temporary “cooling zones” to help people cope.
The nation holding back the sea
22 May 2026
A Pacific island nation on the front line of the climate change threat is building land to try to hold back rising sea levels. But as the majority of Tuvalu’s population applies to relocate to Australia, a haunting question is being confronted: what happens to a country if the people have to leave?
‘Triple whammy of climate chaos’: Why Antarctica's sea ice collapse is no longer a mystery
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.
Aid cuts and climate change drive deadly malaria surge in Zimbabwe
Fri 29 May 2026
A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.
Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle
Tue 26 May 2026
Colombia is a global leader in climate activism. Could US influence drag country to a future of mining and fracking?
UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution
22 May 2026
The UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the US – which is the world’s biggest historical emitter – among the small group opposing it.
