Recent Carbon Brief articles by Orla Dwyer

• Q&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate action
• Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025
• UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining
• Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions
• Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation
• Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022
• Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change
• Forests taking longer to recover from severe ‘megafires’ since 2010
• Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain
• Ireland election 2024: What the manifestos say on climate change and energy 
• The Carbon Brief Interview: UN biodiversity chief Astrid Schomaker
• Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world 
• Q&A: The state of the UK’s ‘food security’ in a fast-warming world
• Agriculture ‘major driver’ of rise in nitrous oxide emissions over past 40 years
• Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss
• Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world
• EU spending up to €48bn on nature-harming activities each year, report says
• Q&A: The impact of farmer protests on the EU’s upcoming parliamentary elections
• ‘Unprecedented’ stress in up to half of the Amazon may lead to tipping point by 2050
• Analysis: How do the EU farmer protests relate to climate change? 
• Lough Neagh: How climate change intensified toxic algae on the UK’s largest lake
• In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change
• Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’
• Revealed: Thousands of chickens in transit died from heat stress on day UK hit 40C
• In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate 
• Air-pollution monitors may hold ‘unnoticed’ wealth of biodiversity data
• Climate change had no ‘significant’ impact on northern Italy floods in May 2023
• Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?
• Helping ‘climate-compatible trees’ spread their seeds may benefit Europe’s forests
• ‘Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals
• Food waste makes up ‘half’ of global food system emissions
• Fertiliser emissions could be cut to ‘one-fifth of current levels’ by 2050
• Logged tropical forests are a ‘substantial’ carbon source for at least 10 years