100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2019 and July 2020
July 2020
- Guest post: Where in the UK might be suitable for BECCS?
- Guest post: How public attitudes towards ‘CO2 removal’ differ in the UK and US
- Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
- Guest post: How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action
- Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages
June 2020
- Risk of 40C heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office
- Scientists shed light on human causes of North Atlantic’s ‘cold blob’
- South pole warmed ‘three times faster’ than global average over past 30 years
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May
- Guest post: How climate change misinformation spreads online
- CCC: UK risks ‘egg on face’ unless it accelerates climate plans
- Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
- In-depth: BP data reveals clean electricity matched coal for the first time in 2019
- IEA: ‘Green’ coronavirus recovery would keep global emissions below 2019 peak
- Coronavirus: Tracking how the world’s ‘green recovery’ plans aim to cut emissions
- Jet stream: Is climate change causing more ‘blocking’ weather events?
- Guest post: Cost of extreme weather due to climate change is severely underestimated
- Warm spring worsened Europe’s extreme 2018 summer drought, study says
- ‘Construction fever’ responsible for one fifth of China’s CO2 emissions
- Guest post: How climate change could accelerate the threat of crop diseases
- Met Office: Why 2020 saw a record-breaking dry and sunny spring across the UK
- Guest post: China’s power sector could be ‘10% cheaper in 2030’ with more renewables
- World population facing water stress could ‘double’ by 2050 as climate warms
- Lions could prevent their prey from adapting to increasing heat, study says
May 2020
- Four more years of Donald Trump could ‘delay global emissions cuts by 10 years’
- IEA: Coronavirus ‘accelerating closure’ of ageing fossil-fuelled power plants
- Webinar: What impact is Covid-19 having on global CO2 emissions?
- Tropical forests can still store ‘high levels’ of carbon under 2C of warming
- Daily global CO2 emissions ‘cut to 2006 levels’ during height of coronavirus crisis
- Fuel savings in US cars have ‘cut 17bn tonnes of CO2 since 1975’
- Major tropical cyclones have become ‘15% more likely’ over past 40 years
- Q&A: Could climate change and biodiversity loss raise the risk of pandemics?
- विश्लेषण : कोरोनावायरस के चलते भारत में CO2 उत्सर्जन की वृद्धि में पिछले चार दशकों में पहली बार आयी कमी
- Guest post: A brief history of climate targets and technological promises
- Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions fall for first time in four decades amid coronavirus
- Analysis: What impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on atmospheric CO2?
- Leading economists: Green coronavirus recovery also better for economy
- Global warming has ‘changed’ spread of tropical cyclones around the world
April 2020
- IEA: Coronavirus impact on CO2 emissions six times larger than 2008 financial crisis
- Analysis: Coronavirus has cut CO2 from Europe’s electricity system by 39%
- Analysis: Great Britain hits coal-free electricity record amid coronavirus lockdown
- Guest post: Why coal phaseout is a ‘no-regret’ plan for tackling climate change
- State of the climate: First quarter of 2020 is second warmest on record
- Vacancy: Digital content executive
- Analysis: How ‘carbon-cycle feedbacks’ could make global warming worse
- Analysis: Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions
- Deep emissions cuts this decade could prevent ‘abrupt ecological collapse’
- The Carbon Brief Profile: South Korea
- Met Office: The UK’s wet and warm winter of 2019-20
March 2020
- Guest post: How energy-efficient LED bulbs lit up India in just five years
- Coronavirus: What could lifestyle changes mean for tackling climate change?
- 分析：中国会在十年内新建百余座燃煤电厂吗？
- Fossil fuel use not closely linked to longer life expectancy, study suggests
- Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
- Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds
- Analysis: Will China build hundreds of new coal plants in the 2020s?
- In-depth Q&A: How will tree planting help the UK meet its climate goals?
- Guest post: Climate change could reverse falling inequality between countries
- Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year
- Budget 2020: Key climate and energy announcements
- Q&A: Are the 2019-20 locust swarms linked to climate change?
- Analysis: Fuel-duty freeze has increased UK CO2 emissions by up to 5%
- Guest post: The underappreciated influence of the tropics on the ‘jet stream’
- Guest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew less than feared in 2019
- Met Office: Why the UK saw record-breaking rainfall in February 2020
- Guest post: World’s intact tropical forests reached ‘peak carbon uptake’ in 1990s
- Climate strikers: Open letter to EU leaders on why their new climate law is ‘surrender’
- Analysis: UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29% over the past decade
February 2020
- Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix?
- 分析：冠状病毒暂时减少了中国四分之一的二氧化碳排放量
- Guest post: Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change?
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Iran
- Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated’
- Analysis: Coronavirus temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
- Guest post: How close is the West Antarctic ice sheet to a ‘tipping point’?
- Guest post: Could climate change and deforestation spark Amazon ‘dieback’?
- Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’
- Climate change driving surge in ‘day-night hot extremes’ in northern hemisphere
- Guest post: Could the Atlantic Overturning Circulation ‘shut down’?
- Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change
- Climate change driving ‘rapid and widespread’ decline of bumblebees
- Analysis: Why coal use must plummet this decade to keep global warming below 1.5C
January 2020
- Tropical forests losing ability to absorb CO2, study says
- CCC: One fifth of UK farmland must be used to tackle climate change
- Emissions from Chinese aviation ‘could quadruple by 2050’
- State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2019
- Explainer: How ‘Atlantification’ is making the Arctic Ocean saltier and warmer
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2019
- In-depth: Understanding the impacts of changing Arctic storms
- Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK’s weather in 2019
- Media reaction: Australia’s bushfires and climate change
- Analysis: UK low-carbon electricity generation stalls in 2019
December 2019
- COP25: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Madrid
- Interactive: When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?
- COP25 video: Messages from climate marchers to politicians
- COP25 video: What needs to happen by COP26 to keep the Paris Agreement on track?
- Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions up 0.6% in 2019 due to China
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP25?
- CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained