The latest 100 articles from Carbon Brief
July 2026
- Q&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate action
- Q&A: Europe’s May and June heatwave deaths – and how they were counted
- UK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo
- 28 quotes from next UK leader Andy Burnham on climate, net-zero and fossil fuels
- Interview: COP31 president says electrification is ‘surest way to protect citizens’
- Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate
- Interview: Dr Sun Yixian on his new database tracking Chinese climate ‘leadership’
- Guest post: France’s June heatwave caused more than 2,700 heat-related deaths
- Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action?
- Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change?
- Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling
June 2026
- Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat
- Six charts show how clean power was world’s largest source of new energy in 2025
- Guest post: Climate change has caused one-fifth of Pine Island glacier retreat
- Q&A: What change of power in Colombia could mean for world’s fossil-fuel transition
- Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat
- Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025
- Analysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time
- Guest post: How US renewable-energy growth persists despite federal policy uncertainty
- Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya
- CCC: Faster electrification of UK will ‘put money back into people’s pockets’
- Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
- Prof Philippe Ciais: The world’s most highly cited climate scientist
- Cited 23 June 2026: Project Cosmos launch | Science ‘under attack’ at Bonn | Emissions inequality
- Prof Philippe Ciais: The world’s most highly cited climate scientist
- Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
- Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science
- Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies
- Project Cosmos
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate scientists
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate publications
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited institutions
- Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate publications
- Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies
- Project Cosmos
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference
- Experts: Why carbon removal needs a ‘major scale up’ to return warming to 1.5C
- Q&A: What do China’s provincial five-year plans say about climate and energy?
- Analysis: Energy-efficient air conditioning could save Indian homes 69bn rupees a year
- Analysis: UK’s EV drivers are now saving £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total
- Analysis: Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever
- Guest post: How a record-high ‘energy imbalance’ is driving global warming
- Cited 9 June 2026: Europe’s ‘exceptional’ heatwave | Warming forecast | AMOC observations ‘at risk’
- Chart: Why China’s solar boom is slowing down
- Analysis: China’s CO2 climbs 2% in early 2026 due to ‘wasted’ wind and solar
- Q&A: How UK’s seventh carbon budget will deliver ‘£865bn’ in economic benefits
- Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world
- Factcheck: What the UK car industry is not saying about EV targets
May 2026
- AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China
- EM-DAT: Trump aid cuts could close database storing ‘world’s memory of disasters’
- Media reaction: UK and Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May heat and climate change
- Q&A: Can China turn hydrogen into its next clean-energy industry?
- Analysis: China’s new carbon metric leaves Germany-sized gap in its emissions
- Revealed: Floods have forced at least 67 closures at NHS hospitals since 2021
- Experts: Why migration is ‘not a failure of adaptation’ in a warming world
- Guest post: How CMIP7 will shape the next wave of climate science
- New coal plants hit ‘10-year’ global high in 2025 – but power output still fell
- CCC: Investing in ‘urgent’ UK adaptation action ‘cheaper than climate damages’
- Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario
- Factcheck: US and Iran are world’s only major emitters without net-zero targets
- Analysis: UK no longer top UN Green Climate Fund donor after latest aid cut
- Analysis: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began
- Q&A: How countries got the global ‘net-zero’ shipping deal ‘back on track’
April 2026
- Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels
- Traditional models still ‘outperform AI’ for extreme weather forecasts
- World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis
- Q&A: China’s leadership calls for ‘strict control’ of fossil fuels
- AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?
- Iran war: EU strategy sets out 44 actions to limit ‘fossil-fuel price shocks’
- Q&A: How the UK government aims to ‘break link between gas and electricity prices’
- State of the climate: Strong El Niño puts 2026 on track for second-warmest year
- Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’
- Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’
- Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy
- Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropical cyclones
- Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis
- Analysis: How Chinese media is covering the Iran energy crisis
- Introducing Carbon Brief’s 2026 cohort of contributing editors
- Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
- Q&A: Why the standoff between nations over the next IPCC reports matters
- Analysis: How ‘plug-in solar’ can save UK homes £1,100 on energy bills
- IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock
March 2026
- How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts
- ‘Very alarming’ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running
- Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?
- Analysis: UK is ‘halving’ its climate finance for developing countries
- Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming
- Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades
- Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas
- Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts
- Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2026
- Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food
- State of the climate: 2025 in top-three hottest years on record as ocean heat surges
- Guest post: How changes to coal mining have affected China’s methane emissions
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
- Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative?
- Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies
- Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling