The past few years have seen an explosion in major economies and businesses seeking to cancel out their polluting activities by paying for emissions to be...
Re: the meme here, Donna Schlesak writes: I’ve never wished anyone dead and I’m opposed to the death penalty, but I can’t say I’d be sorry....
Global sea ice extent is at a record low for this time of year, due to rapid Antarctic sea ice melt and below-average Arctic coverage, new...
Here’s an article that says that, among young voters, Trump leads Biden in a hypothetical election between the two. I’m suspicious. Yes, I know that our...
In recent years, “biodiversity offsets” and “credits” have been promoted as one of the key ways to finance nature conservation and support global biodiversity goals. Put...
I’m sorry to report that “the Donald Trump of Argentina” Javier Milei has won his country’s presidential election. Milei has all the earmarks of the world’s...
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....
If you’ve ever wondered how the physicists who have been studying how to extract the most energy out of the wind for the last three hundred...
Two-thirds of the world’s biggest companies with net-zero targets are using “carbon offsets” to help meet their climate goals, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. The world’s top fossil-fuel...
This artist’s rendering at left suggests a device that its proponents say will, one day, capture CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere, and mitigate the growing threat...