100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2025 and August 2025
August 2025
- Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
- Guest post: Why the recent slowdown in Arctic sea ice loss is only temporary
- DeBriefed 15 August 2025: Raging wildfires; Xi’s priorities; Factchecking the Trump climate report
- Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
- Cropped 13 August 2025: Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund
- Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop
- Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat
- Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s
- COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed?
- DeBriefed 8 August 2025: Arctic heatwave; Climate anxiety deep-dive; France’s wildfire crisis
- Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025
- China Briefing 7 August 2025: Deadly floods; ‘Industrial Cthulhu’; Higher solar forecast
- Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?
- Guest post: What an ‘ambitious’ 2035 electricity target looks like for China
- Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation
- DeBriefed 1 August 2025: Trump targets ‘endangerment finding’; Floods and heatwaves; ‘Thirst’ exhibition
July 2025
- IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’
- Endangered angelshark faces ‘inhospitable’ breeding sites as ocean warms
- Analysis: Trump’s tariffs could cut just 0.3% from global CO2 emissions in 2025
- Cropped 30 July 2025: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heatwaves; ‘Uneven’ hunger progress; Brazil’s ‘devastation bill’
- Climate change could make ‘droughts’ for wind power 15% longer, study says
- State of the climate: 2025 on track to be second or third warmest year on record
- UN report: Five charts explaining the rise of global food insecurity
- DeBriefed 25 July 2025: World court delivers climate ‘turning point’; Renewables ‘unstoppable’; Antarctica’s oldest ice examined
- ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change
- China Briefing 24 July 2025: EU-China climate statement; World’s largest megadam; Clean-tech exports
- Third of ‘slum residents’ in global south are exposed to ‘disastrous’ flood risks
- Climate change is creating ‘new vulnerabilities’ for disease pandemics
- UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’
- Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%
- Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022
- DeBriefed 18 July 2025: India’s clean-energy milestone; Climate reaches UK parliament; Conserving trees and culture in Kenya
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte
- Cropped 16 July 2025: EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease
- 嘉宾来稿：探究火山喷发如何影响气候预测
- DeBriefed 11 July 2025: Texas floods; Global warming ‘tripled’ Europe heat deaths; Ireland exits coal
- Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change
- China Briefing 10 July 2025: New sector targets; Overcapacity dressing-down; Adaptation scorecard
- Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?
- OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly
- Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’
- DeBriefed 4 July 2025: Trump ‘megabill’ guts clean energy; Europe’s record heat; Scientists discuss ‘most worrying’ tipping points
- Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes
- Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040
- Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém
- Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’
June 2025
- Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley
- Analysis: UK climate aid to hit £11.6bn goal – but only due to accounting rule change
- DeBriefed 27 June 2025: Heat domes; Bonn comes to a close; Gender clash in climate talks
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
- China Briefing 26 June 2025: First UK-China climate dialogue; China-climate conference summary; Oil peak ‘in 2027’
- CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met
- Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections
- Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities
- DeBriefed 20 June 2025: Three years to ‘keep 1.5C alive’; Bonn talks turn ‘bitter’; Inside Mumbai’s monsoon ‘war room’
- Guest post: How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon
- Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising
- Cropped 18 June 2025: High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’
- Staple crops yields face ‘substantial losses’ in warming world – even with adaptation
- 中国农机排放量上升或“阻碍”净零目标实现
- Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England
- DeBriefed 13 June 2025: Trump’s ‘biggest’ climate rollback; UK goes nuclear; How Carbon Brief visualises research
- Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades
- Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather
- China Briefing 12 June 2025: Critical mineral exports; Electricity price; Coal ‘capacity payment’
- Guest post: China’s ‘capacity payments’ boosted coal-plant revenue by up to 8%
- UK spending review 2025: Key climate and energy announcements
- Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming
- Guest post: Why the global area for regrowing trees is 71% smaller than thought
- Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming
- 解读：何为中国城市低碳转型的“深圳模式”？
- DeBriefed 6 June 2025: Nigeria’s deadly flash floods; UK’s record spring drives solar surge; Lessons from Japan’s ‘Cool Biz’
- Guest post: How ‘feedback loops’ and ‘non-linear thinking’ can inform climate policy
- Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record
- Cropped 4 June 2025: ‘Tricks’ and ‘cover-ups’; Wild weather; Former UN nature negotiator interviewed
- World might have set itself an unachievable nature target, says former UK negotiator
- 分析：清洁能源首次助力中国碳排放下降
- Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzhen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?
May 2025
- DeBriefed 30 May 2025: Earth eyes 2C; Why net-zero is not behind UK bill hikes; US academics stage climate science ‘fire hose’
- China Briefing 29 May 2025: The ‘Shenzen model’; Record solar growth; NDRC rejected industrial ‘rat race’
- Guest post: How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars
- Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change
- Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
- Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
- Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
- DeBriefed 16 May 2025: Has China’s CO2 peaked?; US bill ‘would kill IRA’; Poland’s coal collapse
- Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets
- ‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C
- China Briefing 15 May 2025: CO2 emissions fall; Drought affects food production; Climate diplomacy at CELAC
- Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar geoengineering
- Interview: What the people of China’s coal-rich Shanxi think about climate change
- Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
- Rising emissions from farm equipment could ‘hinder’ China’s net-zero goals
- Guest post: More than 70% of adaptation plans for European cities are ‘inconsistent’
- DeBriefed 9 May 2025: Australia elects climate action; Spain ‘committed’ to renewables; Taiwan’s nuclear phaseout
- Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes
- Cropped 7 May 2025: Ocean alarm; Tariff deforestation risk; West Africa’s fisheries
- Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
- 解读：中国如何应对数据中心能源增长的需求