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Africa’s tropical land emitted more CO2 than the US in 2016, satellite data...
Africa’s tropical land released close to 6bn tonnes of CO2 in 2016, according to data taken by satellites. This means that, if Africa’s tropical regions were a country, it would be the second largest...
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Rising water stress could counteract ‘global greening’, study says
The increased growth rate of plants seen worldwide in response to rising CO2 levels – a phenomenon known as “global greening” – could be stalled by growing water stress, a study finds. Global warming...
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Guest post: How extreme weather conditions could last longer due to climate...
Peter Pfleiderer is a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin and a research analyst at Climate Analytics. Dr Kai Kornhuber is postdoctoral researcher at the Earth Institute, Columbia University,...
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Explainer: The high-emissions ‘RCP8.5’ global warming scenario
A sizeable portion of recent studies on future climate impacts have focused on a warming scenario called “RCP8.5”. This high-emissions scenario is frequently referred to as “business as usual”,...
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Solar power could replace all US hydro dams using ‘just 13% of the space’
Banks of solar panels would be able to replace every electricity-producing dam in the US using just 13% of the space, according to a new study. The researchers say this “surprisingly modest” figure...
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Media reaction: Amazon fires and climate change
In recent weeks, tens of thousands of fires have been recorded across the Amazon rainforest, with dramatic images and statistics reported daily across the world’s media. Both the scale of the fires and...
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Guest post: How heatwave images in the media can better represent climate risks
Dr Saffron O’Neill is an associate professor in geography at the University of Exeter. Between 2012 and 2017 she held an Economic and Social Research Council Future Research Leader Fellowship on...
View ArticleGuest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew 4% during first half of 2019
Lauri Myllyvirta is an analyst covering air quality and energy trends in China. China’s CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement production grew by an estimated 4% in the first half of 2019, analysis...
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Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
Dr Ruth Mottram, Dr Martin Stendel and Dr Peter Langen are climate scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen, which is part of the Polar Portal. Dr Andreas Ahlstrøm and Dr...
View ArticleAnalysis: The UK politicians who talk the most about climate change
The phrase “climate change” has been mentioned more than 19,000 times in British parliamentary debates, with Labour politicians using the term more than representatives from any other party. These are...
View ArticleHighlights: The net-zero climate change conference in Oxford
This week, the city of Oxford played host to an international conference on “achieving net-zero”. The event follows hot on the heels of the UK becoming the first major economy to set a net-zero climate...
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Guest post: 10 climate-related events that cost the US $10bn in health impacts
Dr Vijay Limaye is a climate change and health science fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Prof Wendy Max is a professor of health economics and co-director of the Institute for...
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Guest post: How to avoid ‘unfair and risky’ climate change scenarios
Dr Joeri Rogelj is a lecturer in climate change and the environment at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London and a senior research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems...
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Cutting air pollution would not cause ‘near-term spike’ in global warming
A reduction in air pollution brought about by shifting away from fossil fuels would not inadvertently cause a short-term acceleration of global warming, a new study says. Earlier modelling work using...
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Analysis: Record-low price for UK offshore wind cheaper than existing gas...
The UK is to get its first subsidy-free offshore windfarms after the government awarded contracts today for nearly 6 gigawatts (GW) of capacity, at prices below those it expects on the open market. The...
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Explainer: How climate change is accelerating sea level rise
Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the most severe impacts of climate change, with rising waters threatening to inundate small-island nations and coastal regions by the end of the century. At the same...
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Article invité : La découverte d’une immense réserve de carbone sous la forêt...
Article invité de Simon Lewis, professeur en sciences de changement global à l’Université College de Londres et à l’université de Leeds. Au coeur du bassin du Congo en Afrique centrale se trouve une...
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In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere
Earlier today in Monaco, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate – or “SROCC” for short. “All people on Earth...
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Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2019 is ‘joint-second lowest’ on record
Arctic sea ice has reached its summer minimum extent for 2019, measuring in at 4.15m square kilometers (km2). This puts this year joint-second lowest in the 40-year satellite record, tied with 2007 and...
View ArticleGuest post: The problem with net-zero emissions targets
Prof Duncan McLaren is a research fellow at Lancaster University’s Lancaster Environment Centre The UK and several other countries now aim to deliver “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050,...
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