100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2026 and June 2026
June 2026
- DeBriefed 5 June 2026: UK eyes 2040 emissions cut | US ‘dismantling’ oceans research | China’s solar slump
- Chart: Why China’s solar boom is slowing down
- Analysis: China’s CO2 climbs 2% in early 2026 due to ‘wasted’ wind and solar
- Cropped 3 June 2026: Highway through the Amazon | El Niño impact | State of CO2 removal
- 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
May 2026
- DeBriefed 29 May 2026: Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May | Indian heat deaths | Nigeria’s solar mini-grids
- 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’
- China Briefing 28 May 2026: Deadly rains | China pushes back | Examining China’s carbon intensity metric
- 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
- DeBriefed 22 May 2026: UN adopts landmark resolution | Trump takes on ‘RCP8.5’ | Climate migration
- 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
- Cropped 20 May 2026: Deforestation roadmap | Melanesian Ocean Summit | Returning pet parrots to the wild
- 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
- DeBriefed 15 May 2026: Trump-Xi talk energy | ‘Supercharged’ El Niño | India’s first ‘heat lounges’
- Analysis: UK no longer top UN Green Climate Fund donor after latest aid cut
- DeBriefed 8 May 2026: EU eyes fossil-fuel exemptions | Wind and solar save UK ‘£1.7bn’ | Amazon ‘tipping point’
- Factcheck: What the UK car industry is not saying about EV targets
- Analysis: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began
- Cropped 6 May 2026: Forest loss falls | Deforestation regulations | Saving ‘India’s Galapagos’
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- Q&A: How countries got the global ‘net-zero’ shipping deal ‘back on track’
- DeBriefed 1 May 2026: Countries chart path away from fossil fuels | China’s clean-tech surge | Global forest loss slows
April 2026
- Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels
- China Briefing 30 April 2026: Fossil fuel ‘strict controls’ | El Niño approaches | Why cleantech exports have surged
- Traditional models still ‘outperform AI’ for extreme weather forecasts
- World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis
- DeBriefed 24 April 2026: Europe’s energy-crisis plan | Renewables overtake coal | Colombia’s fossil-fuel summit
- 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’
- Cropped 22 April 2026: Global food ‘catastrophe’ | BECCS emissions | UK solar farm controversy
- 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’
- DeBriefed 17 April 2026: Fossil-fuel power slumps | ‘Super’ El Niño warning | Afghanistan’s climate struggle
- Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy
- China Briefing 16 April 2026: Billions for grid | Petrochemical plan | China’s high-seas bid
- Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropical cyclones
- DeBriefed 10 April 2026: Worst energy crisis ‘ever’ | India withdraws COP33 bid | Drag artists and climate change
- Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis
- Cropped 8 April 2026: Iran war drives up food prices | Two nature talks conclude | Return of UK’s tallest bird
- Analysis: How Chinese media is covering the Iran energy crisis
- Introducing Carbon Brief’s 2026 cohort of contributing editors
- DeBriefed 2 April 2026: Countries ‘revive’ energy-crisis measures | Record UK renewables | Plug-in solar savings
- Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
- China Briefing 2 April 2026: EV profits rise | Ming Yang rejected | Iran war
- 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
- DeBriefed 27 March 2026: North Sea myths debunked | India’s climate plan | IPCC and Indigenous knowledge
- ‘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
- Cropped 25 March 2026: Seabed mining talks stall | ‘Blueprint’ for land use | India feels Iran war impacts
- Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought
- DeBriefed 20 March 2026: Energy crisis deepens | Brazil’s new climate plan | New Zealand climate case
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2026
- Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food
- China Briefing 19 March 2026: China joins nuclear pledge | Energy approach ‘vindicated’ | New ecological code
- Guest post: How changes to coal mining have affected China’s methane emissions
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
- DeBriefed 13 March 2026: War and oil | Why gas drives electricity prices | Japan’s ‘vulnerability’ to Iran crisis
- 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
- Cropped 11 March 2026: Iran water worries | Seabed-mining treaty progress | Women farmers and climate change
- Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
- CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks
- Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action?
- Heatwaves driving recent ‘surge’ in compound drought and heat extremes
- DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristol’s ‘pioneering’ wind turbine
- Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change?
- Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study
- Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low
- Q&A: What the EU’s new industry and ‘Made in Europe’ rules mean for climate action
- China Briefing 5 March 2026: New five-year climate goals revealed at ‘two sessions’ meeting
- Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting
February 2026
- DeBriefed 27 February 2026: Trump’s fossil-fuel talk | Modi-Lula rare-earth pact | Is there a UK ‘greenlash’?
- Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding
- Cropped 25 February 2026: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate
- Dangerous heat for Tour de France riders only a ‘question of time’
- DeBriefed 20 February 2026: EU’s ‘3C’ warning | Endangerment repeal’s impact on US emissions | ‘Tree invasion’ fuelled South America’s fires
- Q&A: How Trump is threatening climate science in Earth’s polar regions
- Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula
- China Briefing 19 February 2026: CO2 emissions ‘flat or falling’ | First tariff lifted | Ma Jun on carbon data