Recent Carbon Brief articles by Daisy Dunne

Daisy holds a BSc in biology from the University of Bristol and a science journalism MA from City, University of London. She was Carbon Brief's science writer from 2017 to 2020 and the Independent's climate correspondent from November 2020 to 2021. Daisy returned to Carbon Brief in January 2022 as our special correspondent and became associate editor, with responsibility for editing the DeBriefed newsletter, in August 2024.

• COP16: More than 85% of countries miss UN deadline to submit nature pledges
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Louise Heathwaite
• UK misses deadline to submit nature pledge ahead of UN COP16 biodiversity summit
• Webinar: Carbon Brief joins scientists live at the UK’s Arctic Research Station
• DeBriefed 30 August 2024: Sea level rise ‘crisis’; African floods; Studying climate change in Svalbard
• Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?
• Analysis: UK could approve 13 new oil and gas projects despite North Sea pledge
• Q&A: What does the ‘landmark’ Horse Hill judgment mean for UK fossil fuels?
• DeBriefed 31 May 2024: 52C in South Asia; Biden’s carbon offsets overhaul; Tell us what you think
• Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals
• Alaska refuge drilling could threaten polar bears with ‘lethal’ oil spills
• Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions
• Mystery over ‘unexpectedly large’ emissions from Africa’s tropical ecosystems
• Ny-Ålesund: How UK scientists are studying climate change in the Arctic
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Chris Skidmore
• DeBriefed 12 January: 2023 ‘smashes’ global heat record; UK MP quits over oil and gas; Studying Antarctica’s mammoth icebergs
• Analysis: Africa’s extreme weather has killed at least 15,000 people in 2023
• DeBriefed 8 September 2023: Africa’s first climate summit; Wildfire study controversy; Palestine’s struggle for climate funds
• Sir David Attenborough: How polar ship will help scientists study climate change
• Factcheck: Why banning new North Sea oil and gas is not a ‘Just Stop Oil plan’
• DeBriefed 2 June 2023: US debt deal raises climate risk; Amazon under threat; China sizzles
• Deadly drought in Horn of Africa ‘would not have happened’ without climate change
• Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?
• CCC: England has ‘lost a decade’ in fight to prepare for climate change impacts
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria
• Wind and solar were EU’s top electricity source in 2022 for first time ever
• Explainer: Can the world ‘halt and reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030?
• Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming
• Analysis: Africa’s unreported extreme weather in 2022 and climate change
• Video: Why does nature loss receive less international attention than climate change?
• Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?
• The Carbon Brief Interview: UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa
• Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals
• The Carbon Brief Interview: UN biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
• Factcheck: Can new UK oil and gas licences ever be ‘climate compatible’?
• Mapped: African world heritage sites threatened by sea level rise ‘to triple by 2050’
• Last refuges for coral reefs to disappear above 1.5C of global warming, study finds
• Mapped: How climate change disproportionately affects women’s health
• Nitrogen fertiliser use could ‘threaten global climate goals’
• Greenland to lose ice far faster this century than in the past 12,000 years
• US sees ‘alarming’ increase in combined heatwaves and droughts
• Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
• Tree planting can help tropical forests ‘recover 50% faster’ from logging
• ‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time
• Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change
• Explainer: How climate change is affecting wildfires around the world
• Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
• Risk of 40C heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office
• South pole warmed ‘three times faster’ than global average over past 30 years
• Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
• Warm spring worsened Europe’s extreme 2018 summer drought, study says
• World population facing water stress could ‘double’ by 2050 as climate warms
• Lions could prevent their prey from adapting to increasing heat, study says
• Tropical forests can still store ‘high levels’ of carbon under 2C of warming
• Major tropical cyclones have become ‘15% more likely’ over past 40 years
• Q&A: Could climate change and biodiversity loss raise the risk of pandemics?
• Global warming has ‘changed’ spread of tropical cyclones around the world
• Deep emissions cuts this decade could prevent ‘abrupt ecological collapse’
• Fossil fuel use not closely linked to longer life expectancy, study suggests
• Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year
• Q&A: Are the 2019-20 locust swarms linked to climate change?
• Climate change driving surge in ‘day-night hot extremes’ in northern hemisphere
• Climate change driving ‘rapid and widespread’ decline of bumblebees
• Tropical forests losing ability to absorb CO2, study says
• Explainer: How ‘Atlantification’ is making the Arctic Ocean saltier and warmer
• In-depth: Understanding the impacts of changing Arctic storms
• European forests could ‘live fast and die young’ in a warming climate
• Africa’s vegetation has lost 2.6bn tonnes of CO2 in just seven years
• Limiting warming to 1.5C could ‘substantially’ cut risk of ice-free Arctic summers
• UK’s largest butterfly could ‘be lost’ due to climate change
• Climate change: 70% of king penguins could ‘abruptly relocate or disappear’ by 2100
• Climate change could cause more severe droughts in ‘98% of European cities’
• Every five-year delay in meeting Paris goals could ‘add 20cm’ to global sea levels
• Animals with white winter camouflage could struggle to adapt to climate change
• Carbon emissions from Amazon wildfires could ‘counteract’ deforestation decline
• Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals
• Long-term climate variability ‘could fall’ as the world warms
• Polar bears could be struggling to catch enough prey, study shows
• Negative emissions have ‘limited potential’ to help meet climate goals
• Rainforests: Scientists concerned climate change is altering the tropical life cycle
• Climate change and deforestation threaten world’s largest tropical peatland
• Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show
• New study ‘reduces uncertainty’ for climate sensitivity
• Severe coral reef bleaching now ‘five times more frequent’ than 40 years ago
• Deforestation and drought threaten carbon storage in Borneo’s rainforests
• UK could cut food emissions by 17% by sticking to a healthy diet
• Unregulated solar geoengineering could spark droughts and hurricanes, study warns
• Shifting storms under climate change could bring wilder winters to the UK
• Rapid CO2 cuts could allow some cool-water corals to adapt to global warming
• Impact of climate change on health is ‘the major threat of 21st century’
• Climate change threatens the survival of Madagascar’s bamboo lemurs
• Study: Ending extreme poverty and limiting warming to 2C still possible
• New York City could face damaging floods ‘every five years’ in a warmer climate
• In-depth: How will climate change affect animal sex ratios?
• Geoengineering: Scientists in Berlin debate radical ways to reverse global warming
• Hyperthermals: What can they tell us about modern global warming?
• Grass-fed beef will not help tackle climate change, report finds
• World can meet growing food demands and limit warming to 1.5C, study says
• Analysis: What does revised methane data mean for the Paris Agreement?
• Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity