Daily Briefing | Put fracking on fast track
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Explainer: How and why the UK government hopes to fast-track fracking UK ministers have announced a series of measures...
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**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Explainer: How and why the UK government hopes to fast-track fracking UK ministers have announced a series of measures...
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Explainer: The rise and possible fall of Australia's Carmichael coal mine
What links yakka skinks, Standard Chartered bank and the president of Kiribati? They are all some of the recent obstacles to the Carmichael coal mine - a proposed project in the Galilee Basin of...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Lancashire fracking debate
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Explainer: The rise and possible fall of Australia's Carmichael coal mine The Carmichael coal mine is a proposed project in...
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Paris 2015 Tracking country climate pledges
Updated 18 August with the Democratic Republic of Congo's INDC. 31 March marked the loose deadline for countries to submit their pledges to the UN on how far they intend to reduce their greenhouse gas...
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Climate change set to fuel more "monster" El Niños, scientists warn
The much-anticipated El Niño gaining strength in the Pacific is shaping up to be one of the biggest on record, scientists say. With a few months still to go before it reaches peak strength, many are...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Royal Dutch Shell granted final permit for Alaska exploration
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Climate change set to fuel more "monster" El Niños, scientists warn The El Niño gaining strength in the Pacific is shaping up...
View ArticleIslam climate declaration calls for fossil fuel phase out
Islamic scholars from around the world have endorsed a declaration calling on nations to phase out greenhouse gas emissions and switch to 100% renewable energy. The Islamic Declaration on Climate...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Islamic call on rich countries to end fossil fuel use
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Islamic climate declaration calls for fossil fuel phase out Islamic scholars from around the world have endorsed a...
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10 years on from Hurricane Katrina
Shortly after 10am on 29th August 2005, Hurricane Katrina tore through the city of New Orleans, a vibrant port in the US state of Louisiana. Extreme winds and heavy flooding cost more than 1,800...
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Study Chinas carbon emissions substantially overestimated
China, the world's largest emitter, has had its contribution to global warming radically downsized. A new paper finds China's emissions in 2013 were as much as 14% lower than previously thought,...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | China carbon dioxide emissions overstated
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Study: China's carbon emissions substantially overestimated A new paper finds China's emissions in 2013 were as much as 14%...
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Scientists warn of unprecedented damage to forests across the world
Forests around the world are being affected by humans - both directly by deforestation and indirectly by climate change, say experts in a special issue of the journal Science. In a series of reviews...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Climate change intensifies California drought
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Scientists warn of unprecedented damage to forests across the world Forests around the world are being affected by humans -...
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What do the Labour leadership candidates think on climate and energy?
The UK's Labour party will soon choose a new leader, following the resignation of Ed Miliband after May's election. As former climate and energy secretary, Miliband had long been engaged on issues of...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Independent Scotland doomed by plummeting oil revenue
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** What do the Labour leadership candidates think on climate and energy? The UK's Labour party will soon choose a new leader,...
View ArticleRussian industry paid to increase emissions under UN carbon credits scheme
A loophole in the UN's carbon market may have led to an increase in emissions from some Russian factories, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change. It suggests that weak...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Carbon credits undercut climate change actions says report
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Russian industry paid to increase emissions under UN carbon credits scheme The UN's carbon credits scheme could have caused...
View ArticleWarming tropical oceans could see widespread species loss
Note: We have temporarily taken down this article because publication of the paper it discusses has been delayed at short notice by the journal. We've been informed by the paper's author that the...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Iran’s oil output plans put focus on Opec strategy
**Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Ten years on from Hurricane Katrina: What lessons have we learned? Hurricane Katrina, which wreaked destruction on the...
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