100 articles from Carbon Brief between December 2017 and June 2018
June 2018
May 2018
- Guest post: Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will hit poorest the hardest
- Negative emissions: Scientists meet in Sweden for first international conference
- Guest post: Don’t shift the goalposts of Paris Agreement’s temperature limits
- Analysis: How ‘natural climate solutions’ can reduce the need for BECCS
- Restricting global warming to 1.5C could ‘halve’ risk of biodiversity loss
- UK onshore wind energy potential could ‘rise by 10%’ with 1.5C warming
- Mapped: How global warming and land-use change threaten water security worldwide
- Analysis: The gender, nationality and institution of IPCC AR6 scientists
- Guest post: Climate change is already making droughts worse
- Bonn climate talks: key outcomes from the May 2018 UN climate conference
- Explainer: Six ideas to limit global warming with solar geoengineering
- Tourism responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, study finds
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Turkey
- ‘Foehn winds’ causing Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf to melt in winter
- Video: Why studying Thwaites glacier is vital for forecasting sea level rise
- State of the climate: Warm start to 2018 despite La Niña conditions
April 2018
- Mapped: African heatwaves could increase ‘five-fold’ with 3C of global warming
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Stephen Belcher
- Low-lying atolls could become ‘uninhabitable’ earlier than thought
- Deforestation has driven up hottest day temperatures, study says
- Guest post: Do satellites hold the answer to reporting greenhouse gases?
- Explainer: How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change
- Great Barrier Reef at ‘unprecedented’ risk of collapse after major bleaching event
- CO2 emissions from wildfires have fallen over past 80 years, study finds
- Analysis: Government asks when UK should hit net-zero emissions
- Video: All you need to know about the shipping sector’s new climate deal
- Guest post: The impact of climate change on mental health is impossible to ignore
- World can limit global warming to 1.5C ‘without BECCS’
- Explainer: These six metals are key to a low-carbon future
- Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ has slowed by 15% since mid-20th century
- Marine heatwaves have become ‘34% more likely’ over past century
- Africa’s vegetation has lost 2.6bn tonnes of CO2 in just seven years
- Analysis: How much ‘carbon budget’ is left to limit global warming to 1.5C?
- In-depth: Will countries finally agree a climate deal for shipping?
- Global solar capacity grew faster than fossil fuels in 2017, says report
- Guest post: Using satellites to track the retreat of Antarctica’s glaciers
- Limiting global warming to 1.5C would have ‘significant economic benefits’
- Limiting warming to 1.5C could ‘substantially’ cut risk of ice-free Arctic summers
March 2018
- In-depth: Is Shell’s new climate scenario as ‘radical’ as it says?
- UK’s largest butterfly could ‘be lost’ due to climate change
- Guest post: Why India’s CO2 emissions grew strongly in 2017
- Q&A: What does ‘subsidy-free’ renewables actually mean?
- Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest winter peak on record
- Expect tens of millions of internal climate migrants by 2050, says World Bank
- Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice
- Factcheck: Less than 1% of UK gas supplies come from Russia
- New maps pinpoint the potential for BECCS across the US
- Solar geoengineering: Risk of ‘termination shock’ overplayed, study says
- Guest post: China’s CO2 emissions grew less than expected in 2017
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Brazil
- Analysis: UK carbon emissions in 2017 fell to levels last seen in 1890
- New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100
- Analysis: How Scotland plans to meet its climate change targets
- Explainer: The polar vortex, climate change and the ‘Beast from the East’
- Clashes between humans and lions to increase with climate change, study says
February 2018
- OECD: Fossil fuel subsidies added up to at least $373bn in 2015
- Mangrove deforestation emits as much CO2 as Myanmar each year
- Climate change: 70% of king penguins could ‘abruptly relocate or disappear’ by 2100
- Analysis: BP significantly upgrades its global outlook for wind and solar – again
- 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
- Guest post: How ‘enhanced weathering’ could slow climate change and boost crop yields
- Animals with white winter camouflage could struggle to adapt to climate change
- Small drones could be better for climate than delivery trucks, says study
- Carbon emissions from Amazon wildfires could ‘counteract’ deforestation decline
- Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals
- New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies
- Long-term climate variability ‘could fall’ as the world warms
- In-depth: Renewables are ‘key’ to lower UK industrial electricity prices
- Polar bears could be struggling to catch enough prey, study shows
January 2018
- Negative emissions have ‘limited potential’ to help meet climate goals
- The EU got less electricity from coal than renewables in 2017
- Rainforests: Scientists concerned climate change is altering the tropical life cycle
- Q&A: How will China’s new carbon trading scheme work?
- State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2017
- Climate change and deforestation threaten world’s largest tropical peatland
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2017
- Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show
- Explainer: What climate models tell us about future rainfall
- Guest post: Why clouds hold the key to better climate models
- New study ‘reduces uncertainty’ for climate sensitivity
- In-depth: Scientists discuss how to improve climate models
- UK will miss climate goals despite new strategy, says official watchdog
- Timeline: The history of climate modelling
- Q&A: How do climate models work?
- China leading on world’s clean energy investment, says report
- Analysis: UK government slashes outlook for new gas power plants
- El Niño causes West Antarctica’s ice shelves to gain height yet lose mass
- Severe coral reef bleaching now ‘five times more frequent’ than 40 years ago
- Analysis: Low-carbon sources generated more UK electricity than fossil fuels in 2017
December 2017
- 2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review
- Guest post: Bioenergy ‘flaw’ under EU renewable target could raise emissions
- Deforestation and drought threaten carbon storage in Borneo’s rainforests
- IEA says world coal demand will rise, despite slashing forecast growth in India
- 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
- Germans most worried about climate change, analysis shows
- UK wind power potential could fall by 10% by 2100 because of climate change