100 articles from Carbon Brief between April 2023 and October 2023

October 2023

• Lough Neagh: How climate change intensified toxic algae on the UK’s largest lake
• Rubber drives ‘at least twice’ as much deforestation as previously thought
• Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2023
• Analysis: ‘Greater than 99% chance’ 2023 will be hottest year on record
• Revealed: Tenth of UK’s climate-aid spending goes via private consultancies
• Analysis: How the UK has fallen 40% behind on its £11.6bn climate-finance pledge
• Analysis: How the UK has spent its foreign aid on climate change since 2011
• Kew report: Five key extinction risks facing the world’s plants and fungi
• Experts: How will the next decade of China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ impact climate action?
• World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar
• Drying of Amazon could be early warning of ‘tipping point’ for the rainforest
• In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change
• Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story

September 2023

• Webinar: How can carbon offsets be reformed?
• Analysis: How some of the world’s largest companies rely on carbon offsets to ‘reach net-zero’
• In-depth Q&A: What are ‘biodiversity offsets’?
• ‘Exceptional’ Antarctic melt drives months of record-low global sea ice cover
• Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world
• Infographic: How are carbon offsets supposed to work?
• Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets
• Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to the terminology of carbon offsets
• In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change?
• Q&A: How scientists tackle the challenges of estimating wildfire CO2 emissions
• In-depth Q&A: What do Rishi Sunak’s U-turns mean for UK climate policy?
• Analysis: UK government’s climate U-turns put legally binding targets in jeopardy
• Guest post: Plans for new oil and gas power plants have grown by 13% in 2023
• Q&A: How are Libya’s ‘medicane’-fuelled floods linked to climate change?
• Guest post: Ice cores reveal Antarctica is warming twice as fast as global average
• Halving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’
• Analysis: UK renewables still cheaper than gas, despite auction setback for offshore wind
• Factcheck: Scientists pour cold water on claims of ‘journal bias’ by author of wildfires study
• Q&A: Major global report reveals how climate, land use and trade drive ‘invasive species’
• Guest post: Behind the scenes at Senegal’s ‘just energy transition partnership’

August 2023

• EU’s use of fossil fuels for electricity falls 17% to ‘record low’ in first half of 2023
• Guest post: How climate change will hit snow levels across Europe’s ski resorts
• Vacancy: Digital Content Executive
• Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?
• Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
• Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’
• Eastern Canada wildfires: Climate change doubled likelihood of ‘extreme fire weather’
• Guest post: Gauging the success of climate change adaptation
• Q&A: What does the UK’s new biomass strategy mean for net-zero?
• Guest post: How the Inflation Reduction Act narrows the gap to US climate goals
• Q&A: How China is using nuclear power to reduce its carbon emissions
• Q&A: What the Amazon Summit means for deforestation and climate change
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions in Q2 2023 rebound to 2021’s record levels 
• Guest post: How Ukraine could emerge from war as a climate leader
• Migration: Ties to ‘home’ are key for Himalayan communities that stay despite climate risks
• Revealed: Thousands of chickens in transit died from heat stress on day UK hit 40C
• Fires could lock vast parts of the Amazon into ‘treeless state’

July 2023

• Dwindling sea ice linked to decline of Arctic foxes in Canada’s Hudson Bay
• ‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining
• Prioritising threatened species could help ‘guide’ expansion of EU protected areas
• State of the climate: 2023 now likely hottest year on record after extreme summer 
• Autobahn speed limit would cut carbon and bring €1bn in benefits, study says
• Record-breaking 2023 heat events are ‘not rare anymore’ due to climate change
• Guest post: What would it take to phase out coal in Indonesia?
• Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production
• Media reaction: Extreme weather hits world’s seven continents in July 2023
• Guest post: How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change
• Q&A: The shipping industry climate goals backed – and blocked – by China
• ‘Malaria resurgence’ feared in Ethiopia amid El Niño and climate change
• In-depth Q&A: Will the new global shipping deal help deliver climate goals?
• Heat-related deaths ‘56% higher among women’ during record-breaking 2022 European summer
• Guest post: Coal-project financing outside of China hits 12-year low 
• Sir David Attenborough: How polar ship will help scientists study climate change
• Guest post: Climate models underestimate food security risk from ‘compound’ extreme weather
• In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate 
• Q&A: Does a new ‘global pact’ accelerate climate finance for developing countries?
• Analysis: How low-sulphur shipping rules are affecting global warming
• Introducing Carbon Brief’s contributing editors

June 2023

• CCC: Chance of UK meeting climate pledges has ‘worsened’ since last year
• ‘Striking’ new NASA videos show CO2 emissions rapidly building up in atmosphere
• Explicador: Cómo terminar la violencia de género ayudará a cumplir las metas de conservación
• Vacancy: Data scientist
• In-depth: How climate change affects health in Africa
• Explainer: How ending gender violence will help deliver conservation goals
• Guest post: How China’s rural solar policy could also boost heat pumps
• Analysis: UK would need less imported gas under a Labour government
• Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2023 UN climate conference
• Guest post: Nearly half of recent climate pledges plan to keep extracting fossil fuels 
• Media reaction: Canada’s wildfires in 2023 and the role of climate change
• Guest post: What ‘credible’ climate pledges mean for future global warming
• Factcheck: Why banning new North Sea oil and gas is not a ‘Just Stop Oil plan’
• Guest post: New indicators will track climate change between IPCC reports
• Air-pollution monitors may hold ‘unnoticed’ wealth of biodiversity data

May 2023

• Climate change had no ‘significant’ impact on northern Italy floods in May 2023
• ‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
• Jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Pakistan
• Guest post: Half of developing countries still struggle to report greenhouse gas emissions
• Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?
• Montreal Protocol has slowed loss of Arctic sea ice, say scientists
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023 
• Commodity Profile: Coffee
• Helping ‘climate-compatible trees’ spread their seeds may benefit Europe’s forests
• Western-Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate change
• Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief – OLD

April 2023

• State of the climate: Growing El Niño threatens more extreme heat in 2023
• Deadly drought in Horn of Africa ‘would not have happened’ without climate change