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2024/3 Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps

2023/10 Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles

2012/6 Can climate change cause earthquakes? We look at the science and the spin

2013/2 New research projects widespread permafrost thaw with 1.5 degrees of warming

2013/7 Economic stagnation not excuse for climate inaction

2013/10 What the new IPCC report says about sea level rise

2013/12 Can the government legally change the fourth carbon budget?

2013/12 Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit

2013/12 Three ‘radical’ ideas to help individuals take climate action

2014/5 The state of carbon pricing: Around the world in 46 carbon markets

2014/6 Academics urge scientists to do more to engage the public on climate change

2014/6 The IEA weighs in on stranded assets - not just a green conspiracy?

2014/10 How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power

2014/12 Deforestation in the tropics affects climate around the world, study finds

2014/12 Two degrees: The history of climate change's speed limit’

2014/12 Why we may never get a Montreal Protocol for climate change

2015/1 Long-term economic shocks imply taking strong, early action on climate change, study shows

2015/1 Scientists issue stark warning as Earth passes into ‘danger zone’

2015/4 10 of the best YouTube videos on climate change

2015/4 Climate adaptation could slash cost of flood damages by 96%, study shows

2015/6 Climate change 'Apollo Programme' raises both hope and questions

2015/6 The Atlantic 'conveyor belt' and climate: 10 years of the RAPID project

2015/7 Paris 2015 Tracking country climate pledges

2015/12 Analysis: The final Paris climate deal

2015/12 Interactive: The Paris Agreement on climate change

2016/1 Oil below $30: what does it mean for action on climate change?

2016/3 In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution

2016/3 Mapped: How climate change will slow progress towards curbing malnutrition

2016/3 Timeline: How BECCS became climate change's 'saviour' technology

2016/4 Explainer: 10 ways 'negative emissions' could slow climate change

2016/4 Factcheck: Are climate models ‘wrong’ on rainfall extremes?

2016/4 Feeding the world: Can we preserve forests, go organic and eat meat?

2016/4 In-depth: Experts assess the feasibility of 'negative emissions'

2016/4 Mapped: The climate change conversation on Twitter

2016/5 Shell Outlines Below 2oC Climate Change Scenario

2016/6 Paris deluge made up to 90% more likely by climate change

2016/7 Climate-related disasters raise conflict risk, study says

2016/7 How UK Leaving the EU Would Increase Climate Targets for Others

2016/7 The Carbon Brief Interview: Mark Watts

2016/8 Aviation could consume a quarter of 1.5C carbon budget by 2050

2016/8 How predictable is the first ice-free Arctic summer?

2016/8 Mapped: The world's nuclear power plants

2016/10 Why a UN Climate Deal on HFCs Matters

2017/1 Mapped: The climate change conversation on Twitter in 2016

2017/2 Carbon Brief Summary Q&A for the SCC

2017/2 Factcheck: Mail on Sunday’s ‘astonishing evidence’ about global temperature rise

2017/2 Q&A: The social cost of carbon

2017/3 Seven things that need to happen to keep global temperature rise below 2C

2017/4 Cut fossil fuel use dramatically to meet climate goals says Shell-backed report

2017/4 Warming limit of 1.5C would 'save' huge expanses of permafrost, study says

2017/4 Why do Republicans have such an extreme reaction to climate science

2017/5 Mapped: Climate change laws around the world

2017/6 Analysis: Meeting Paris pledges would prevent at least 1C of global warming

2017/6 Analysis: US states and cities could meet Paris climate goals without Trump

2017/6 IEA: World can reach 'net zero' emissions by 2060 to meet Paris climate goals

2017/6 Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998

2017/7 Mapped: The world’s largest CO2 importers and exporters

2017/8 Climate change 'could double' the number of droughts in Jordan by 2100

2017/9 Climate models have not 'exaggerated' global warming

2017/9 Deploying the science of extreme weather attribution in the courts

2017/9 Tropical forests are no longer carbon sinks because of human activity

2017/10 California’s new law aims to tackle imported emissions

2017/10 Geoengineering: Scientists in Berlin debate radical ways to reverse global warming

2017/10 How well have climate models projected global warming?

2017/10 Impact of climate change on health is 'the major threat of 21st century'

2017/10 New York City could face damaging floods ‘every five years’ in a warmer climate

2017/10 The Carbon Brief Quiz 2017

2017/10 Who will deliver the negative emissions needed to avoid 2C warming?

2017/11 Global CO2 emissions set to rise 2% in 2017 after three-year ‘plateau’

2017/11 How China has reduced the carbon footprint of developed countries

2017/11 The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Katharine Hayhoe

2017/11 Unregulated solar geoengineering could spark droughts and hurricanes, study warns

2017/12 Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review

2017/12 Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals

2018/X Clashes between humans and lions to increase with climate change, study says

2018/1 Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2017

2018/1 How do climate models work?

2018/2 Every five-year delay in meeting Paris goals could add 20cm to global sea levels

2018/2 How ‘enhanced weathering’ could slow climate change and boost crop yields

2018/3 In-depth: Is Shell’s new climate scenario as ‘radical’ as it says?

2018/3 Q&A: What does ‘subsidy-free’ renewables actually mean?

2018/4 Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ has slowed by 15% since mid-20th century

2018/4 In-depth: Will countries finally agree a climate deal for shipping?

2018/5 Explainer: Six ideas to limit global warming with solar geoengineering

2018/6 A new way to assess ‘global warming potential’ of short-lived pollutants

2018/6 Land uplift ‘could prevent’ collapse of West Antarctic ice sheet

2018/6 Mapped: The world’s coal power plants

2018/7 Global warming varies greatly depending where you live

2018/8 Explainer: These six metals are key to a low-carbon future

2018/8 Rising CO2 levels could push ‘hundreds of millions’ into malnutrition by 2050

2018/10 How 'integrated assessment models' are used to study climate change

2018/10 How 'integrated assessment models' are used to study climate change

2018/10 In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on climate change at 1.5C

2018/10 Interactive: How climate finance ‘flows’ around the world

2018/10 Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond

2018/12 Explainer: Why some US Democrats want a ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle climate change

2019/1 Major study uncovers ‘sea change’ in world’s understanding of Atlantic conveyor belt

2019/2 Land management ‘blind spots’ make 1.5C goal highly unlikely

2019/3 Why results from the next generation of climate models matter

2019/4 How global warming is causing ocean oxygen levels to fall

2019/4 Why children must emit eight times less CO2 than their grandparents

2019/5 How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change

2019/5 Polls reveal surge in concern in UK about climate change

2019/5 Tornadoes and climate change: what does the science say?

2019/7 Direct CO2 capture machines could use ‘a quarter of global energy’ in 2100

2019/7 How Trump’s rollback of vehicle fuel standards would increase US emissions

2019/8 The IPCC's special report on climate change and land

2019/9 Cutting air pollution would not cause ‘near-term spike’ in global warming

2019/9 How heatwave images in the media can better represent climate risks

2019/9 The problem with net-zero emissions targets

2019/9 The UK politicians who talk the most about climate change

2019/11 How ‘Article 6’ carbon markets could ‘make or break’ the Paris Agreement

2019/11 In-depth Q&A: How ‘Article 6’ carbon markets could ‘make or break’ the Paris Agreement

2019/11 UNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’

2019/11 UNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’

2019/12 CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained

2019/12 CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained

2020/1 State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2019

2020/2 Could the Atlantic Overturning Circulation ‘shut down’?

2020/2 Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change

2020/3 Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds

2020/3 World’s intact tropical forests reached ‘peak carbon uptake’ in 1990s

2020/4 Analysis: How ‘carbon-cycle feedbacks’ could make global warming worse

2020/7 Global warming edges closer to Paris Agreement 1.5C limit

2020/7 How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action

2020/8 ‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time

2020/9 Calculating the true climate impact of aviation emissions

2020/10 Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change

2020/10 What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change

2020/11 Climate experts react to Joe Biden’s victory

2021/1 Refining the remaining 1.5C ‘carbon budget’

2021/2 Analysis: Shell says new ‘Brazil-sized’ forest would be needed to meet 1.5C climate goal

2021/2 Atlantic Ocean current at weakest state in ‘over a millennium’

2021/4 A ‘Rosetta Stone’ for bringing land-mitigation pathways into line

2021/4 Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?

2021/4 The Carbon Brief Profile: United States

2021/5 ‘Exceptional new normal’: IEA raises growth forecast for wind and solar by another 25%

2021/5 IEA: Mineral supplies for electric cars ‘must increase 30-fold’ to meet climate goals

2021/5 Why the low carbon transition may be much cheaper than models predict

2021/6 In-depth Q&A: Will China’s emissions trading scheme help tackle climate change?

2021/6 The Carbon Brief Profile: Mexico

2021/6 UN climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2021 virtual conference

2021/6 Why CO2 removal is not equal and opposite to reducing emissions

2021/8 In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science

2021/10 Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change?

2021/11 Analysis: Do COP26 promises keep global warming below 2oC?

2021/11 How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2021

2021/12 Can ‘nature-based solutions’ help address climate change?

2021/12 Global warming will make undocumented migration into US ‘increasingly dangerous’

2021/12 Guest post: Are the world’s peatlands better protected after COP26?

2021/12 The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Yi and Prof Wang Zhongying

2022/1 State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2021

2022/2 How China is powering the Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing

2022/3 ‘Imminent’ tipping point threatening Europe’s permafrost peatlands

2022/3 Analysis: What does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?

2022/3 China briefing: More plans on energy storage and hydrogen; China’s emissions analysis

2022/3 How not to interpret the emissions scenarios in the IPCC report

2022/4 Ranking the reasons why the Larsen C ice shelf is melting

2022/4 Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG3 report?

2022/4 The Carbon Brief Profile: France

2022/4 The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change

2022/4 What the new IPCC report says about how to limit warming to 1.5C or 2C

2022/5 Guest post: How climate scientists should handle ‘hot models’

2022/5 Media reaction: South Asia’s 2022 heatwave and the role of climate change

2022/5 What have been the most extreme heatwaves in history?

2022/5 Why China is set to significantly overachieve its 2030 climate goals

2022/6 ‘Food miles’ have larger climate impact than thought, study suggests

2022/6 Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?

2022/7 Analysis: UK’s ‘jet-zero’ plan would allow demand for flying to soar 70%

2022/7 Climate change made 2022’s UK heatwave ‘at least 10 times more likely’

2022/7 Electric cars sales in the US ‘could prevent one-tenth of global cropland expansion’

2022/7 Expanding ‘Azores high’ driving ‘unprecedented’ changes in western Europe’s climate

2022/7 Factcheck: No, global warming has not ‘paused’ over the past eight years

2022/7 Will China’s new renewable energy plan lead to an early emissions peak?

2022/8 Understanding Wheat in a Climate Change Context

2022/9 Clam shells show how North Atlantic ‘tipped’ into Little Ice Age

2022/9 Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2022

2022/9 The Carbon Brief Profile: Russia

2022/9 Tipping points: How could they shape the world’s response to climate change?

2022/10 Coal and trucks pushed US ‘further off track’ for climate targets in 2021

2022/10 Testing how the latest climate models simulate global soil carbon

2022/12 Analysis: IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest ever’ revision

2022/12 Guest post: ‘Fair’ climate-finance flows should be at least $250bn per year

2023/1 Guest post: Can ‘green hydrogen’ grow fast enough for 1.5C?

2023/2 Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria

2023/2 Guest post: The causes and impacts of Pacific north-west’s brutal 2021 heatwave

2023/2 Recent Alps snow cover decline ‘unprecedented’ in past 600 years

2023/3 Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change

2023/4 Analysis: Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth

2023/7 Guest post: Climate models underestimate food security risk from ‘compound’ extreme weather

2023/7 World’s run of hottest days; Shipping’s climate reckoning; Revival for climate misinformation

2023/9 How some of the world’s largest companies rely on carbon offsets to ‘reach net-zero’

2023/9 In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change?

2023/9 Infographic: How are carbon offsets supposed to work?

2023/9 Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world

2023/9 Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets

2023/11 The Carbon Brief Profile: China

2023/12 Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report

2023/12 What would an ambitious ‘global goal on adaptation’ look like at COP28?

2023/12 Why ‘jet-streak’ winds will get faster as the climate warms

2024/1 A review of the UK’s climate in 2023

2024/1 State of the climate: 2023 smashes records for surface temperature and ocean heat

2024/1 What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15?

2024/1 Why 2023 was an exceptional year for Antarctic sea ice

2024/2 Interview: Why global support for climate action is 'systematically underestimated'

2024/3 Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms

2024/3 Mapping where tree-planting has the greatest climate benefit

2024/3 The challenge of consensus decision-making in UN climate negotiations

2024/3 Why some countries are aiming for 'net-negative' emissions

2024/4 How climate change could reverse progress in global inequality

2024/4 How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions

2024/4 State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start

2024/4 Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect

2024/5 Heat pumps gained European market share in 2023 despite falling sales

2024/5 How China’s energy system can reach carbon neutrality before 2055

2024/5 Ice-age analysis suggests worst-case global warming is less likely

2024/5 Solar plus batteries ‘cheaper than new coal’ for meeting China’s rising demand

2024/5 The role of ‘blue carbon’ in addressing climate change

2024/6 How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero

2024/6 The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ in the retreat of Earth’s ice sheets

2024/6 Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate

2024/7 Heavy use of CO2 removal would trigger high sustainability risks

2024/7 How Denmark plans to tax agriculture emissions to meet climate goals

2024/7 State of the climate: 2024 now very likely to be warmest year on record

2024/7 The growing problem of how extreme heat damages mental health

2024/7 Tracking G7 climate progress with data from 116,095 power plants

2024/8 Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures

2024/9 The forgotten role of logistics in achieving net-zero

2024/10 Heat stress thresholds are not designed for vulnerable groups

2024/10 How to track progress towards the ‘global goal on adaptation’?

2024/10 The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases

2024/11 How COP29 host Azerbaijan could boost growth through climate action

2024/11 How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2024

2024/11 Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world

2024/11 State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming

2024/11 What 1.5C overshoot would mean for climate impacts and adaptation

2024/11 What does a Trump presidency mean for climate action?

2024/12 Only five proposals for coal plants remain across OECD’s 38 countries

2024/12 The conflicting practices in using land to tackle climate change

2025/1 A review of the UK’s climate in 2024

2025/1 Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways

2025/1 How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change

2025/2 Carbon Brief Profile: Germany

2025/2 Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change

2025/2 How ‘digital sequence information’ can generate funds for biodiversity

2025/2 How atmospheric rivers are bringing rain to West Antarctica

2025/2 How climate change is causing ‘ecological grief’ for farmers in Ghana

2025/3 China will need 10,000GW of wind and solar by 2060

2025/3 Climate change is not making extreme cold more common

2025/3 Decoding how China talks about energy and climate change

2025/3 How human behaviour shapes effective climate policies

2025/3 Saudi Arabia's surprisingly large imports of solar panels from China

2025/3 Why action on extreme heat in Indian cities is falling short

2025/3 Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal

2025/4 How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C

2025/4 State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year

2025/4 Why hydrogen cars are being outsold by Ferraris

2025/5 Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar geoengineering

2025/5 How climate science is – and is not – shaping adaptation planning in southern Africa

2025/5 How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars

2025/5 More than 70% of adaptation plans for European cities are ‘inconsistent’

2025/6 Democratic Republic of the Congo

2025/6 How ‘feedback loops’ and ‘non-linear thinking’ can inform climate policy

2025/6 How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather

2025/6 How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities

2025/6 How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon

2025/6 Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections

2025/6 What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?

2025/6 Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising

2025/6 Why the global area for regrowing trees is 71% smaller than thought

2025/7 Carbon Brief Profile: Pakistan