100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2019 and February 2020
February 2020
- Climate change driving ‘rapid and widespread’ decline of bumblebees
- Analysis: Why coal use must plummet this decade to keep global warming below 1.5C
January 2020
- Tropical forests losing ability to absorb CO2, study says
- CCC: One fifth of UK farmland must be used to tackle climate change
- Emissions from Chinese aviation ‘could quadruple by 2050’
- State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2019
- Explainer: How ‘Atlantification’ is making the Arctic Ocean saltier and warmer
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2019
- In-depth: Understanding the impacts of changing Arctic storms
- Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK’s weather in 2019
- Media reaction: Australia’s bushfires and climate change
- Analysis: UK low-carbon electricity generation stalls in 2019
December 2019
- COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid
- Interactive: When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?
- COP25 video: Messages from climate marchers to politicians
- COP25 video: What needs to happen by COP26 to keep the Paris Agreement on track?
- Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions up 0.6% in 2019 due to China
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP25?
- CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained
November 2019
- In-depth Q&A: How ‘Article 6’ carbon markets could ‘make or break’ the Paris Agreement
- UNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’
- Analysis: Global coal power set for record fall in 2019
- Election 2019: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2019
- Inside MOSAiC: How a year-long Arctic expedition is helping climate science
- ‘Profound shifts’ underway in energy system, says IEA World Energy Outlook
- Guest post: Ten ways to use CO2 and how they compare
- Guest post: Will plants help make the planet wetter or drier in a changing climate?
- Existing Paris climate pledges commit sea level rise to ‘one metre by 2300’
October 2019
- Guest post: Why climate scenarios need to better incorporate ‘adaptive capacity’
- Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions growth poised to slow sharply in 2019
- 客座文章：为何中国二氧化碳排放在2019年上半年增长了4%
- Europe’s carbon-rich peatlands show ‘widespread’ and ‘concerning’ drying trends
- Analysis: Renewables could match coal power within 5 years, IEA reveals
- State of the climate: Low sea ice and near-record warmth define 2019 to date
- Ebola epidemics will ‘increase with greenhouse gas concentrations’, study finds
- Analysis: UK renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels for first time
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Canada
September 2019
- Guest post: The problem with net-zero emissions targets
- Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2019 is ‘joint-second lowest’ on record
- In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere
- Article invité : La découverte d’une immense réserve de carbone sous la forêt marécageuse du Congo
- Explainer: How climate change is accelerating sea level rise
- Analysis: Record-low price for UK offshore wind cheaper than existing gas plants by 2023
- Cutting air pollution would not cause ‘near-term spike’ in global warming
- Guest post: How to avoid ‘unfair and risky’ climate change scenarios
- Guest post: 10 climate-related events that cost the US $10bn in health impacts
- Highlights: The net-zero climate change conference in Oxford
- Analysis: The UK politicians who talk the most about climate change
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
- Guest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew 4% during first half of 2019
August 2019
- Guest post: How heatwave images in the media can better represent climate risks
- Media reaction: Amazon fires and climate change
- Solar power could replace all US hydro dams using ‘just 13% of the space’
- Explainer: The high-emissions ‘RCP8.5’ global warming scenario
- Guest post: How extreme weather conditions could last longer due to climate change
- Rising water stress could counteract ‘global greening’, study says
- Africa’s tropical land emitted more CO2 than the US in 2016, satellite data shows
- Guest post: How plans for new coal are changing around the world
- Solar now ‘cheaper than grid electricity’ in every Chinese city, study finds
- In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on climate change and land
- Guest post: Understanding the water-energy-food nexus in a warming climate
- Explainer: ‘Desertification’ and the role of climate change
- Amazon carbon sink could be ‘much less’ due to lack of soil nutrients
- Global sea level rise began accelerating ‘30 years earlier’ than previously thought
- Interactive: How climate change could threaten the world’s traditional dishes
- Climate change made Europe’s 2019 record heatwave up to ‘100 times more likely’
- Guest post: What the UK can learn from carbon pricing schemes around the world
- Analysis: UK primary energy use in 2018 was the lowest in half a century
July 2019
- China’s emissions ‘could peak 10 years earlier than Paris climate pledge’
- Analysis: Does the UK ‘require’ new nuclear to reach net-zero emissions?
- Guest post: Why demand for cooling could make the world hotter
- State of the climate: 2019 set to be second or third warmest year
- Global extent of climate change is ‘unparalleled’ in past 2,000 years
- Direct CO2 capture machines could use ‘a quarter of global energy’ in 2100
- Guest post: Why German coal power is falling fast in 2019
- Guest post: A new approach for understanding the remaining carbon budget
- Analysis: How Trump’s rollback of vehicle fuel standards would increase US emissions
- CCC: UK has just 18 months to avoid ’embarrassment’ over climate inaction
- Europe ‘could get 10 times’ its electricity needs from onshore wind, study says
- Guest post: Understanding the UK’s recent spike in wildfires
- France’s record-breaking heatwave made ‘at least five times’ more likely by climate change
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2019 UN climate conference
June 2019
- Analysis: Major update to ocean-heat record could shrink 1.5C carbon budget
- Guest post: Planned growth of UK airports not consistent with net-zero climate goal
- Guest post: Air pollution and irrigation mask extremes of India’s 2019 heatwave
- Cold-war spy photos reveal ‘doubling’ of glacier ice loss in Himalayas
- In-depth Q&A: Why Ireland is ‘nowhere near’ meeting its climate-change goals
- More than half the world could see ‘record-setting heat’ every year by 2100
- In-depth Q&A: The UK becomes first major economy to set net-zero climate goal
- In-depth: BP data reveals record CO2 emissions in 2018 driven by surging use of gas
- Northern hemisphere’s extreme heatwave in 2018 ‘impossible’ without climate change
- Interactive: How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade
- Healthcare in world’s largest economies ‘accounts for 4%’ of global emissions
- Profil Carbon Brief: Indonesia
- Limiting warming to 1.5C could prevent ‘thousands’ of heat deaths in US cities
May 2019
- Tornadoes and climate change: what does the science say?
- Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’
- Lobbying against key US climate regulation ‘cost society $60bn’, study finds
- Guest post: Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming