Meat industry behind attacks on flagship climate-friendly diet report
14 Apr 2025
New evidence suggests the surge of outrage against the report was stoked by a PR firm that represents the meat and dairy sector.
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Once a climate leader, Canada is now doubling down on oil
Mon 25 May 2026
Mark Carney is counting on Alberta’s oil sands to help him survive Trump’s trade agenda.
Sorry, climate change is still dangerous, no matter what nonsense Trump emits
Mon 25 May 2026
As the climate-change landscape evolves, new forms of scientific disinformation emerge.
Carbon markets and the collapse of institutional memory
Mon 25 May 2026
Much of the current “novel climate innovation” discourse increasingly feels like the same structural dynamics returning in new packaging and this is where the institutional-memory problem becomes genuinely dangerous.
Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?
Mon 25 May 2026
Technological interventions face huge financial or practical challenges, but there is another way.
Climate change threatens global plant species as habitats shrink
Mon 25 May 2026
Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognisable may not survive by century's end as climate change becomes an increasingly important driver of species loss, according to scientists, reshaping and often shrinking suitable habitats that the plants need to survive.
How do hurricanes and typhoons form and is climate change making them stronger?
Mon 25 May 2026
Rising temperatures mean that hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones have the potential to bring stronger winds and heavier rain – and scientists warn it only takes one strong storm to bring major impacts.
UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution
Fri 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.
Climate scientists accuse livestock industry of fuzzy math to downplay climate warming emissions
Fri 22 May 2026
A group of the world’s leading climate scientists are warning governments and the livestock industry against adopting an “accounting trick” that will imperil the all-out global effort required to control heat-trapping emissions.
Global wind and solar power outpace gas for first time in April, report shows
Fri 22 May 2026
Wind and solar combined generated more electricity than gas globally in April for the first month ever, data analysed by UK-based think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
Electrification emerges as COP31 priority
Fri 22 May 2026
The Turkish and Australian COP31 host governments and the International Renewable Energy Agency have called for a stronger global push to run vehicles, industry and buildings on electricity rather than fossil fuels, ahead of this year's COP31 climate talks.
