News

Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.
Extreme heat fanning deadly wildfires in Europe has killed at least three people and caused thousands more to evacuate, the Guardian reports.
Four common talking points surrounding China’s ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new projects might end.
with another round of negotiations looming at COP30 in November, there has been growing discontent with the UN climate process.
There is widespread coverage of the Canyon Fire north of Los Angeles, which forced thousands of people to evacuate at the end of last week.
China’s power sector is both the world’s largest emitter and the largest source of clean-energy growth, making it essential to global climate efforts.
As it passes its midway point, 2025 is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record, Carbon Brief analysis shows.
China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.
Carbon Brief asked a wide range of experts at a University of Exeter which tipping point concerns them the most.
Climate change research in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established global north cities, says analysis of over 50,000 studies.
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled the first spending review under the current Labour government, announcing funding for nuclear power, energy efficiency and carbon capture and storage (CCS). A ...
Human-caused emissions of aerosols – tiny, light‑scattering particles produced mainly by burning fossil fuels – have long acted as an invisible brake on global warming. This is largely because they ...