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Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according ...
Carbon Brief explains what the new UK solar geoengineering research programme consists of and explores the concerns ...
Shanxi province in northern China is the country’s largest coal producer, leaving its coal-reliant economy and workers ...
For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.
British International Investment (BII), a UK government-owned and aid-funded company, has a portfolio of overseas fossil-fuel assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Carbon Brief can reveal. In ...
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Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.
Rapidly rising emissions from China’s agricultural machinery could “hinder” the country’s push to net-zero, according to new research. The study, published in Nature Food, finds that carbon dioxide ...