Factcheck: How global warming has increased US wildfires
In the midst of record or near-record heatwaves across the northern hemisphere this summer, deadly wildfires have swept through many regions, such as the...
Solar geoengineering could ‘fail to prevent damage to crop yields’
Releasing aerosols into the atmosphere in order to limit the rise in global temperature would not stave off damage to crop yields, a new...
Climate change not the only threat to giant pandas, study says
Climate change could play a smaller role in determining future giant panda populations than previously thought, a new study suggests.
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Methane uptake from forest soils has ‘fallen by 77% in three decades’
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State of the climate: 2018 set to be fourth warmest year despite cooler start
Temperatures on the Earth’s surface in the first half of 2018 were lower than over the same period for the three previous years. This...
Guest post: ‘Peak coal’ is getting closer, latest figures show
Dr Christine Shearer is a researcher and analyst for the US-based energy research group CoalSwarm.
Total global coal capacity continues to inch up, but a...
Global carbon tax in isolation could ‘exacerbate food insecurity by 2050’
The implementation of a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions could – without other complementary policies – “have a greater negative impact on global...
Six charts show mixed progress for UK renewables
Onshore and offshore wind power rose by 34% last year in the UK compared to 2016, new government statistics show.
The latest Digest of UK...
Climate change made 2018 European heatwave up to ‘five times’ more likely
A rapid assessment by scientists of the ongoing heatwave across northern Europe this summer has found that human-caused climate change made it as much...
Media reaction: The 2018 summer heatwaves and climate change
This year’s northern-hemisphere summer has seen a succession of heatwaves take hold in Europe, Asia, North America and northern Africa.
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