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Research in Nature Communications suggests the contribution of ocean biology to climate regulation is more complex than ...
More than $14bn in low-carbon US energy investments have either been cancelled or delayed this year according to analysis by clean-energy business group E2 ...
Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according ...
Global temperatures are expected to rise to close to 2C above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, according to data from the WMO.
Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study. Dieback would see large numbers of trees die, shifting the lush ...
Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.
The UK government’s “high-risk” research funding agency last week announced that it will invest £57m ($76m) in a new solar geoengineering research programme. “Solar geoengineering” refers to methods ...
The “wealthiest 10%” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research. The study, published in Nature ...
This guest post is by: Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and senior fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute. For the first time, the growth in China’s ...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. DISASTERS DELETED: The New York Times reported that the US National Oceanic and ...