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Climate change driving surge in ‘day-night hot extremes’ in northern hemisphere
Deadly “day-night hot extremes” are increasing across the northern hemisphere due to climate change, a new study finds. And the number of people exposed to such events, also known as “compound hot...
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Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’
Across vast swaths of the northern hemisphere’s higher reaches, frozen ground holds billions of tonnes of carbon. As global temperatures rise, this “permafrost” land is at increasing risk of thawing...
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Guest post: Could climate change and deforestation spark Amazon ‘dieback’?
Last summer, the Amazon rainforest was in the news again for all the wrong reasons. Deforestation rates are on the rise under the leadership of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and 2019 brought the...
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Guest post: How close is the West Antarctic ice sheet to a ‘tipping point’?
Between its east and west ice sheets and its peninsula, Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by around 60m. The West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) is a relatively small part, containing...
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Analysis: Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
As China battles one of the most serious virus epidemics of the century, the impacts on the country’s energy demand and emissions are only beginning to be felt. Electricity demand and industrial...
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Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated’
Human-caused emissions of methane from the extraction and use of fossil fuels may have been “severely underestimated”, a new study suggests. The research indicates that “natural” emissions of fossil...
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Iran
In the latest article in a series on how some of the world’s key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief profiles Iran, a major petrostate stricken by long-running droughts. Carbon...
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Guest post: Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change?
Once again, lives have been turned upside down by flooding across large parts of the UK, following the exceptional rainfall brought by storms Ciara and Dennis. With the flood event still unfolding, it...
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分析：冠状病毒暂时减少了中国四分之一的二氧化碳排放量
中国正在与本世纪最严重的病毒疫情作斗争，这对中国能源需求和排放的影响方才显露头角。 在一系列指标中，电力需求和工业产出远远低于其通常水平，不少指标的双周平均值处于近年最低水平。这包括：...
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Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix?
The use of streaming video is growing exponentially around the world. These services are associated with energy use and carbon emissions from devices, network infrastructure and data centres. Yet,...
View ArticleAnalysis: UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29% over the past decade
The UK’s CO2 emissions fell by 2.9% in 2019, according to Carbon Brief analysis. This brings the total reduction to 29% over the past decade since 2010, even as the economy grew by a fifth. Another...
View ArticleClimate strikers: Open letter to EU leaders on why their new climate law is...
This is an open letter to EU leaders at the European Commission, European Parliament and member states from 34 youth climate activists, including Greta Thunberg. The European Commission will release...
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Guest post: World’s intact tropical forests reached ‘peak carbon uptake’ in...
The world’s land surface currently removes around 30% of all human-generated CO2 emissions, with tropical forests playing a major role in this “carbon sink”. Of particular importance are intact...
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Met Office: Why the UK saw record-breaking rainfall in February 2020
February 2020 was the UK’s wettest February on record in a series dating back to 1862. England, Wales and Northern Ireland all saw their wettest February on record, with Scotland seeing its second...
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Guest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew less than feared in 2019
With the novel coronavirus outbreak jamming the attention of news media and policymakers alike since mid-January, last year seems like a very long time ago. On 28 February, however, the Chinese...
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Guest post: The underappreciated influence of the tropics on the ‘jet stream’
Over the past decade or so, a scientific debate has emerged around whether rapid Arctic warming could be affecting extreme weather in the mid-latitudes. Much of this work focuses on the jet stream –...
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Analysis: Fuel-duty freeze has increased UK CO2 emissions by up to 5%
The freeze in fuel duty since 2010 means the UK’s CO2 emissions are as much as 5% higher than they would have been, Carbon Brief analysis shows. The analysis comes amid widespread lobbying and...
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Q&A: Are the 2019-20 locust swarms linked to climate change?
The past few months have seen locust swarms as large as entire cities sweep across countries in East Africa and surrounding regions. With each insect able to eat its two-gram body weight in food each...
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Budget 2020: Key climate and energy announcements
Rishi Sunak, the UK’s new chancellor, has delivered his first budget and the first for the UK since October 2018. It is also the first budget since the UK committed to reaching net-zero emissions by...
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Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year
Replenishing and protecting the world’s soil carbon stores could help to offset up to 5.5bn tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, a study finds. This is just under the current annual emissions of the...
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