Recent Carbon Brief articles by Rosamund Pearce

Rosamund Pearce was Carbon Brief's multimedia journalist, focusing on graphics, interactives, videos and other multimedia, from September 2014 to June 2019. Rosamund is now freelancing and can be contacted via rosamund.org.uk

• Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
• Tornadoes and climate change: what does the science say?
• Guest post: Polls reveal surge in concern in UK about climate change
• Guest post: Why the UK’s carbon footprint is decreasing
• In-depth: The UK should reach ‘net-zero’ climate goal by 2050, says CCC
• Climate change could ‘raise stress levels’ of endangered mountain gorillas
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Joanna Haigh
• Analysis: Half of UK’s electricity to be renewable by 2025
• Analysis: Why children must emit eight times less CO2 than their grandparents
• Renewable hydrogen ‘already cost competitive’, say researchers
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Qi Ye
• Climate change’s impact on groundwater could leave ‘environmental timebomb’
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2018
• COP24 video: Three need-to-knows from the UN climate talks in Katowice
• COP24: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Katowice
• Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP24?
• Natural ocean fluctuations could help explain Antarctic sea ice changes
• The Lancet: Extreme heat threatens ‘systemic failure’ of hospitals
• CCC: England’s coastal defences need ‘urgent’ rethink to cope with climate change
• In-depth: Could ‘rewilding’ help to tackle climate change?
• Mapped: The Mediterranean world heritage sites at risk from sea level rise
• Analyse: les scientifiques discutent les conclusions clés du rapport 1,5°C du GIEC
• Exclusive: BBC One to show first primetime film on climate change since 2007
• UK homes need ‘deep efficiency retrofit’ to meet climate goals
• In-depth: Scientists discuss key findings of the IPCC’s special report on 1.5C
• Mapped: Where ‘afforestation’ is taking place around the world
• Analysis: Why the IPCC 1.5C report expanded the carbon budget
• IEA: Bioenergy to lead growth in renewables over next five years
• Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm
• Guest post: How Arctic warming could have steered Hurricane Florence towards the US
• Limiting warming to 2C would prevent ‘worldwide increases’ in heat-related deaths
• Q&A: Why cement emissions matter for climate change
• Exclusive: BBC issues internal guidance on how to report climate change
• Guest post: How Arctic lakes accelerate permafrost carbon losses
• Amazon mangroves ‘twice as carbon rich’ as its rainforests
• Guest post: A plan to solve the mysteries of Congo’s vast tropical peatland
• Guest post: Six key policy challenges to achieving ‘negative emissions’ with BECCS
• Rising CO2 levels could push ‘hundreds of millions’ into malnutrition by 2050
• Scientists find ‘natural pulses’ in recent melting of West Antarctic ice sheet
• Coastal flooding in Europe ‘could cost up to €1 trillion per year’ by 2100
• The 2004 lecture that finally convinced David Attenborough about global warming
• Climate change made 2018 European heatwave up to ‘five times’ more likely
• Mapped: The US nuclear power plants ‘at risk’ of shutting down
• Rapid rise of UK electric vehicles sees National Grid double its 2040 forecast
• In-depth: UK can go low-carbon ‘at no extra cost’, say infrastructure advisors
• Permafrost and wetland emissions could cut 1.5C carbon budget ‘by five years’
• Guest post: Unprecedented summer heat in Europe ‘every other year’ under 1.5C of warming
• ‘Atlantification’ of Arctic sea tipping it towards new climate regime
• Explainer: How scientists estimate ‘climate sensitivity’
• Guest post: How global warming is causing ocean oxygen levels to fall
• Guest post: Climate change could heighten risk of global food production ‘shocks’
• Video: How beef farmers can reduce their carbon footprint
• UK onshore wind energy potential could ‘rise by 10%’ with 1.5C warming
• Analysis: The gender, nationality and institution of IPCC AR6 scientists
• Bonn climate talks: key outcomes from the May 2018 UN climate conference
• Analysis: Government asks when UK should hit net-zero emissions
• Guest post: Why India’s CO2 emissions grew strongly in 2017
• Q&A: What does ‘subsidy-free’ renewables actually mean?
• New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100
• Analysis: How Scotland plans to meet its climate change targets
• Clashes between humans and lions to increase with climate change, study says
• Guest post: Why clouds hold the key to better climate models
• UK will miss climate goals despite new strategy, says official watchdog
• Timeline: The history of climate modelling
• 2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review
• Guest post: Bioenergy ‘flaw’ under EU renewable target could raise emissions
• Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans
• Climate change ‘tripled chances’ of Hurricane Harvey’s record rain
• Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals
• UK wind power potential could fall by 10% by 2100 because of climate change
• Guest post: Is gas a bridge to nowhere for UK climate policy?
• Autumn Budget 2017: Key climate and energy announcements
• COP23: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Bonn
• COP23 video: What needs to happen by COP24 to keep the Paris Agreement on track?
• Analysis: Global CO2 emissions set to rise 2% in 2017 after three-year ‘plateau’
• Guest post: How China has reduced the carbon footprint of developed countries
• Mapped: Where multilateral climate funds spend their money
• Analysis: WRI data suggests emissions have already ‘peaked’ in 49 countries
• Guest post: Who will deliver the negative emissions needed to avoid 2C warming?
• Guest Post: How IPCC graphics could be made more accessible
• The Carbon Brief Quiz 2017
• Mapped: How the US generates electricity
• Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change
• Guest post: Why the 1.5C warming limit is not yet a geophysical impossibility
• Coffee faces dual threat of farmland loss and bee decline in a warmer climate
• Analysis: UK auction reveals offshore wind cheaper than new gas
• Guest Post: Deploying the science of extreme weather attribution in the courts
• Climate change could drive a third of parasites to extinction by 2070
• Energy efficiency policies ‘could save UK homes £270’, report finds
• Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2017
• Mapeo: Como el cambio climático afecta eventos meteorológicos extremos alrededor del mundo
• Climate change ‘could double’ the number of droughts in Jordan by 2100
• Media reaction: Hurricane Harvey and climate change
• Guest Post: Why solar keeps being underestimated
• Climate change could tarnish the flavour of cava, study suggests
• Factcheck: Lord Lawson’s inaccurate claims about climate change on BBC Radio 4
• In-depth: The challenges facing the Dieter Helm ‘energy cost’ review
• Migrating birds can’t keep up with an earlier spring in a changing climate
• Factcheck: British Gas and Daily Telegraph make confusing claims over ‘green taxes’
• Six charts show UK’s progress on low-carbon energy slowing down