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On Friday, the US Department of Transportation cancelled $679m in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects ...
Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia ...
Scientists are the most trusted source of information for climate change in some of the largest global-south countries, ...
China and India accounted for 87% of the new coal-power capacity put into operation in the first half of 2025, whereas other regions continued to move away from coal.
Carbon Brief highlights a short extract from a new autobiography written by the late Peter Betts, who was the UK and EU lead negotiator at various COPs ...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed, an essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.
Global demand for gas will rise more than 20% from last year's level by 2050, according to projections released by the oil-and-gas company ExxonMobil ...
This week, Carbon Brief covers a new UN-backed report that examines the impacts of climate change on labour productivity and health.
Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.
Today's climate and energy headlines: Extreme rain in China caused $2.2bn in road damage, further straining public purse UK: Energy price cap – typical annual household bill to rise by £35 in October ...
How is climate change going to affect droughts in the UK? Globally, climate change causes an intensification of the hydrological cycle. This means that both wet and dry extremes – floods and droughts ...