Bankers climate alliance prepares to vote on ditching 1.5C goal

Thursday - The world's biggest climate alliance for banks is about to vote on whether it's time to abandon a once hallowed goal.

'A new phase': why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest

Thursday - Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the 'property and machinery' of the fossil fuel economy.

Climate crisis threatens Earth's major crops, study finds

Thursday - With global average temperatures expected to continue to rise in the coming decades, scientists have projected that warming will significantly harm global agriculture as it weakens crop yields and disrupts food production. Now, new research finds that warming will disrupt many of Earth's major crops and harm global crop diversity.

Climate change, already causing problems on Earth, could soon create a mess for orbiting satellites

Thursday - Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds.

Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts

Wednesday - Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump's aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of spending overseas.

I spent 3 days at Jordan Peterson's anti-climate ARC conference. Here's what I saw.

Wednesday - It's easy to dismiss Jordan Peterson, the Canadian bad boy ex-academic, as a sideshow. But Peterson's influence has gotten too big to ignore, and his message is a danger to all of us.

Half of world's CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

Tuesday - Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis.

Defense of climate multilateralism key to Brazil's leadership, COP30 president says

Tuesday - Brazil will use its presidency of the annual United Nations global climate talks to press for multilateralism and respect for science, COP30 President-Designate Andre Aranha Correa do Lago said on...

Most cookstove carbon credits ruled out of quality scheme in integrity push

10 Mar 25 - The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has rejected widely used rulebooks for cleaner cooking, which will require projects to switch to more rigorous methods.

Visualising daily global temperatures

10 Mar 25 - Good data visualisations can help make climate change more visceral and understandable.

Carbify: Tree planting; Blockchain; Crypto; and NFT trees?

7 Mar 25 - Carbify is a Dutch company that claims to have "tree planting solutions for every sector." But do those trees even exist?

The legal tussle to hold corporate polluters accountable for climate loss and damage

7 Mar 25 - The stage has been set for a series of major battles over whether corporations can be held accountable through the courts for loss and damage from climate change.

Locals in Greenland now have two fears: Trump and climate change

6 Mar 25 - 'Greenlanders don't want to be Danish. Greenlanders don't want to be American'.

Countries fail again to decide timing of key IPCC climate science reports

5 Mar 25 - China, Saudi Arabia and India pushed back against a proposal to align the IPCC flagship reports with the timeline of the global stocktake of climate action.

As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

5 Mar 25 - As Earth's warming climate causes problems for big coffee producers, some are looking to a rarely cultivated species that may stand up better to drought and heat. It's Excelsa, which is native to...

Meet Chonkus: the CO2-chomping alga that could help tackle the climate crisis

4 Mar 25 - Chonkus may sound like a champion Sumo wrestler but it is the nickname for a superpower strain of microbe that absorbs lots of CO2 relative to its size and stores it in its large cells.

Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate

3 Mar 25 - Earth's plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds.

COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome

3 Mar 25 - Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for "mobilising" at least $200bn per year by 2030 to help developing countries conserve biodiversity.

Glacial melting is accelerating, driving sea level rise and depleting freshwater: study

3 Mar 25 - Accelerating glacial melting is causing the world's oceans to rise year after year and is causing a loss of regional freshwater, new research led by scientists at the University of Zürich shows.

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