Recent Carbon Brief articles by Ayesha Tandon

• Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa
• Traditional models still ‘outperform AI’ for extreme weather forecasts
• Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts
• Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study
• Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050
• Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane
• Asia-Pacific faces ‘$500bn-a-year’ hit from rising seas if current policies continue
• Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300
• Analysis: IPCC’s seventh assessment has record-high representation from global south
• Study links world’s top oil and gas firms to 200 ‘more intense’ heatwaves
• Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year
• Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey
• Climate change could make ‘droughts’ for wind power 15% longer, study says
• Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research
• ‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C
• Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes
• Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
• Survey: ‘Very few’ Africans place responsibility for climate action on ‘rich nations’
• Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink
• Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record
• Glacier melt threatens water supplies for two billion people, UN warns
• Major banana exporters could face ‘60% drop’ in growing area due to warming
• IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team
• Mapped: How ‘natural’ world heritage sites are threatened by climate extremes
• Record-breaking Philippines typhoon season was ‘supercharged’ by climate change
• Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’
• More than half a trillion hours of work lost in 2023 due to ‘heat exposure’
• Climate change almost wipes out decline in global area burned by wildfires
• Explainer: How hotter oceans can fuel more intense Atlantic hurricanes
• Antarctic sea ice maximum in 2024 is ‘second lowest’ on record
• US supply chains face biggest jump in ‘weather shocks’ due to climate change
• Meeting 1.5C warming limit hinges on governments more than technology, study says
• ‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points
• Tropical forest degradation due to ‘edge effects’ is 200% higher than thought
• Afghanistan’s ‘deadly’ early spring rainfall made twice as likely by El Niño
• Dual impact of extreme heat and Covid-19 had ‘deadly consequences’ for UK
• English schools face ‘overheating’ for one-third of year under 2C warming
• CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit
• Drought behind Panama Canal’s 2023 shipping disruption ‘unlikely’ without El Niño
• In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?
• Inside HABITABLE: Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand
• Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’ as Arctic reaches ‘below-average’ winter peak
• Climate change made west Africa’s ‘dangerous humid heatwave’ 10 times more likely
• Analysis: How UK winters are getting warmer and wetter
• Scientists challenge ‘flawed communication’ of study claiming 1.5C warming breach
• Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report
• Lancet report: Heat stress wiped out equivalent of 4% of Africa’s GDP in 2022
• Climate change: Intensity of ongoing drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran ‘not rare anymore’
• Drying of Amazon could be early warning of ‘tipping point’ for the rainforest
• ‘Exceptional’ Antarctic melt drives months of record-low global sea ice cover
• Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
• Eastern Canada wildfires: Climate change doubled likelihood of ‘extreme fire weather’
• Record-breaking 2023 heat events are ‘not rare anymore’ due to climate change
• ‘Malaria resurgence’ feared in Ethiopia amid El Niño and climate change
• Heat-related deaths ‘56% higher among women’ during record-breaking 2022 European summer
• ‘Striking’ new NASA videos show CO2 emissions rapidly building up in atmosphere
• ‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
• Montreal Protocol has slowed loss of Arctic sea ice, say scientists
• Western-Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate change
• Unprecedented heat extremes ‘could occur in any region globally’
• ‘Exceptional’ surge in methane emissions from wetlands worries scientists
• Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2023 is fifth lowest on record
• Analysis: How the diversity of IPCC authors has changed over three decades
• Heavy rainfall from New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle ‘more common on warmer planet’
• South American drought in 2022 partly driven by ‘triple-dip’ La Niña
• Climate change could make parts of Lebanon ‘too hot’ for producing olive oil
• Tonga volcano eruption raises ‘imminent’ risk of temporary 1.5C breach
• Argentina’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave made ‘60 times more likely’ by climate change
• West Africa’s deadly rainfall in 2022 made ‘80 times more likely’ by climate change
• ‘Poor tropical regions’ suffer greatest economic damage from worsening heatwaves
• ‘Top 1%’ of emitters caused almost a quarter of growth in global emissions since 1990
• Global warming above 1.5C could trigger ‘multiple’ tipping points
• Falling crop yields under warming could see ‘rapid’ decline in bioenergy’s potential
• The Arctic has warmed ‘nearly four times faster’ than the global average
• Climate change made 2022’s UK heatwave ‘at least 10 times more likely’
• Analysis: How the UK’s ‘insane’ 40C heat was forecast ‘weeks in advance’
• Expanding ‘Azores high’ driving ‘unprecedented’ changes in western Europe’s climate
• Tropical cyclones now ‘13% less frequent’ due to climate change
• ‘Food miles’ have larger climate impact than thought, study suggests
• Climate change made extreme rains in 2022 South Africa floods ‘twice as likely’
• Communities in India flooded by ‘Amphan-scale cyclones’ could triple by 2100
• Ocean warming drove 10% rise in ‘extreme’ rainfall from Atlantic hurricanes in 2020
• Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2022 is 10th lowest on record
• Declining ‘resilience’ pushing Amazon rainforest towards tipping point
• Eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ would raise global emissions by less than 1%
• US flooding increase will ‘disproportionately’ impact black and low-income groups
• Rich nations could see ‘double climate dividend’ by switching to plant-based foods
• Global warming will make undocumented migration into US ‘increasingly dangerous’
• Climate change not the main driver of Madagascar food crisis, scientists find
• Avoiding temperature ‘overshoot’ reduces multiple climate change risks, say scientists
• Melting Arctic sea ice linked to ‘worsening fire hazards’ in western US
• Analysis: The lack of diversity in climate-science research
• Today’s youth will face ‘unmatched’ climate extremes compared to older generations
• Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2021 is ‘12th lowest’ on record
• Climate change will drive rise in ‘record-shattering’ heat extremes
• Clouds study finds that low climate sensitivity is ‘extremely unlikely’
• Climate change has driven 16% drop in ‘snow meltwater’ from Asia’s high mountains
• Two-fifths of EU agricultural imports could be ‘highly vulnerable’ to drought by 2050
• Cooling effect of clouds ‘underestimated’ by climate models, says new study
• Satellite data reveals impact of warming on global water cycle