100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2019 and October 2019
October 2019
- 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
- Climate change is driving plankton towards the poles, study says
- European forests could ‘live fast and die young’ in a warming climate
- IEA: Low-carbon spending must ‘more than double’ to meet climate goals
- Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
- 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 has influenced global drought risk for ‘more than a century’
April 2019
- Climate change could ‘raise stress levels’ of endangered mountain gorillas
- Vacancy: Two-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- Australian election 2019: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Joanna Haigh
- Guest post: How will climate change’s warming pattern look in the future?
- State of the climate: Heat across Earth’s surface and oceans mark early 2019
- Analysis: Half of UK’s electricity to be renewable by 2025
- Guest post: The UK’s carbon footprint is at its lowest level for 20 years
- Eating more offal could help cut meat emissions by ‘14%’
- Analysis: Why children must emit eight times less CO2 than their grandparents
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Australia
- Guest post: Arctic warming is causing a 60-fold increase in permafrost landslides
- Bottlenose dolphin numbers declined by ‘12%’ following marine heatwave
March 2019
- Mosquito-borne diseases could reach extra ‘one billion people’ as climate warms
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Indonesia
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- Guest post: Why results from the next generation of climate models matter
- Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2019 is seventh lowest on record
- Guest post: What do we know about climate change mitigation in cities?
- Interactive: Can the Great Barrier Reef survive climate change?
- Factcheck: Is 3-5C of Arctic warming now ‘locked in’?
- The Carbon Brief Profile: India
- Article invité: Un plan pour résoudre les mystères des vastes tourbières du Congo
- Halving global warming with solar geoengineering could ‘offset tropical storm risk’
- Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change
- Guest post: China’s CO2 emissions grew slower than expected in 2018