The Greenland ice sheet melt season 2023 is now over and it completes a 27th year in a row in which Greenland has lost ice. The...
The clearing of forests for growing rubber “has been substantially underestimated” in figures used to develop policy on deforestation, new research finds. The study, published in...
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The UK’s largest freshwater lake experienced its worst-ever levels of a harmful bacteria this summer. Lough Neagh – a lake in Northern Ireland that is larger...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s weekly...
With growing calls for the need to reduce plastic production, industry groups are pushing back. By James Bruggers Fossil fuel and chemical company interests are out...
Dozens of proposed projects would pump water uphill to reservoirs that release it to generate electricity when wind and solar can’t. But their reliance on groundwater...
Janet Ofeforpa was at her family cassava farm in south-east Ghana when overflowing water from the nearby Akosombo hydro-electric dam unexpectedly came rushing onto her land....
The UK has “added” around £450m to its climate-aid spending in developing countries by changing how it defines “climate finance”, according to Carbon Brief analysis. In...
The first three quarters of 2023 has seen exceptional heat globally, putting 2023 on track to be the warmest year since records began in the mid-1800s,...