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Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds
First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.By...
Congress imposes new security restrictions on U.S. researchers
But new defense bill drops or weakens some controversial proposals
The Paris Agreement at 10: A Celebration and a Call to Action
Ten years ago, we witnessed something akin to a miracle.Hundreds of leaders came together for the UN’s annual climate summit (COP15) in Paris. There, they...
Heat-seeking beetles drawn to plants that glow in infrared
Pollinators’ antennae act like thermal cameras to spot self-heating plants
Colorado River Water Is Too Cheap, Particularly for Agricultural Users
A new report from UCLA and the Natural Resources Defense Council found nearly a quarter of Colorado River water is basically provided for free by...
Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
Systematic price monitoring sheds light on economics of online manipulation
NASA telescope will hunt down ‘city killer’ asteroids
With an infrared eye, NEO Surveyor will target dangerous space rocks glowing in the dark
Scientists find a massive hidden CO2 sponge beneath the ocean floor
Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of years. These porous breccia...
Expert Q&A: After a 'Super Year' for the Ocean, Where Does Ocean Action Stand?
At the start of 2025, several major opportunities that could reshape international ocean governance were on the horizon. From major treaties decades in the making...
China Briefing 11 December 2025: Winter record looms; Joint climate statement with France; How ‘mid-level bureaucrats’ help shape policy
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe...
Q&A: Five key climate questions for China’s next ‘five-year plan’
China’s central and local governments, as well as state-owned enterprises, are busy preparing for the next five-year planning period, spanning 2026-30. The top-level 15th five-year...
Government attendance at COP30 was lowest in 10 years
Governments sent fewer people to the COP30 summit in Belém than they did to any COP talks since 2014, newly-released UN data reveals, as they...
Reaching net zero: what will it cost the UK and is it a price worth paying?
An official report says the bill for switching to clean energy will rise sharply – and puts forward a slower, ‘falling behind” alternativeThe cost of...
Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry
Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning...
How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts
An Aurora Energy Research report explores how storage could be co-located with AI training facilities.By Arcelia MartinWith data center developers in Texas and most other...
How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The environmental anthropologist was there to help plant 300 stalks of...
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers....
The risk of another “super typhoon” is growing – that’s why we’re suing Shell
Trixy Elle, a fishmonger from Batasan Island, lost her home and her business when Typhoon Odette tore through the Philippines in 2021. She is among...
As the Paris Agreement turns 10, what has it achieved?
The world’s efforts to avert catastrophic climate change are still far off track a decade after the Paris Agreement’s adoption, but the landmark pact has...
The town on the banks of the Nile that turned floods into fortune
After record flooding submerged Bor in South Sudan in 2020, the emergency response ended up turning it into a beacon of climate crisis adaptation The...
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’The climate crisis supercharged the deadly storms that killed more...
Funding for protected areas fell in 2024, threatening global nature target
A global goal to protect 30% of the planet’s land and sea ecosystems by 2030 is at risk of falling off track due to a...
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