Burning all the oil and gas from new discoveries and newly approved projects since 2021 would emit at least 14.1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2), according...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight....
Last month, Germany became the first major economy to commit to a target to reach “net-negative” emissions later this century. While “net-zero” describes a state where...
Growers’ use of the neurotoxic weed killer paraquat is concentrated in just five agricultural counties, leaving low-income Latinos disproportionately exposed to a chemical linked to Parkinson’s...
Following a global agreement to transition off fossil fuels, industry leaders gathered in Houston doubled down on oil and gas. By Phil McKenna HOUSTON—When U.S. Secretary...
Indian farmers – struggling with erratic weather, shrinking water supplies and falling incomes – have quit their fields in a major new wave of protest, and...
In the affected cities, as many as 500,000 people and one in every 35 properties could be impacted by the flooding, and communities of color face...
Technologies to slow global warming by manipulating the environment are rapidly advancing, but some experts want to pump the brakes. By Kiley Price In 1991, Mount...
A year after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the study found vinyl chloride accidents have happened on average “once every five days since 2010.”...
Antarctic sea ice is “behaving strangely” and might have entered a “new regime”, the director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) tells...