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Coal remains are collected to be sold at a local market, Jharkhand, India. Credit: Joerg Boethling / Alamy Stock Photo. HN5KMY
Coal remains are collected to be sold at a local market, Jharkhand, India. Credit: Joerg Boethling / Alamy Stock Photo.
Mar 27. 2020. 00:01:00

Fossil fuel use not closely linked to longer life expectancy, study suggests

The rise of primary energy use and CO2 emissions over four decades across 70 countries is not closely…

Public health | Daisy Dunne
Coal miner working in a mine in Knottingley, West Yorkshire. June 2012. Credit: Image Source / Alamy Stock Photo
Coal miner in the now-closed Kellingley Colliery at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, June 2012. Credit: Image Source / Alamy Stock Photo

Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds

GHGs and aerosols | Mar 24. 2020.
Sunlight streaming through the trees at Dinas Forest, timber plantation, Ponterwyd, Ceredigion Wales UK
Plantation trees at Dinas forest, Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, Wales. Credit: Keith Morris / Alamy Stock Photo

In-depth Q&A: How will tree planting help the UK meet its climate goals?

Explainers | Mar 18. 2020.
Satellite image showing the Dramatic differences in land use patterns on the US - Mexico border. Lush, regularly gridded agricultural fields on the U.S. side contrast with the more barren fields of Mexico.
Satellite image of the US-Mexico border at Mexicali-Calexico. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and US/Japan ASTER Science Team

Guest post: Climate change could reverse falling inequality between countries

Guest posts | Mar 17. 2020.
Dam in place to re-wet blanket bog at RSPB Forsinard Flows, Flow country, Caithness, Highland, Scotland. Credit: Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo
Dam in place to re-wet blanket bog at RSPB Forsinard Flows, Flow country, Caithness, Highland, Scotland. Credit: Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo

Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year

Negative emissions | Mar 16. 2020.
Woman Filling a Car with Unleaded Petrol, UK.
A driver filling a car with unleaded petrol, UK. Credit: Simon Belcher / Alamy Stock Photo

Budget 2020: Key climate and energy announcements

UK policy | Mar 11. 2020.
A desert locust swarm in Ololokwe, Kenya, 22 January 2020. Credit: FAO/Sven Torfinn.
A desert locust swarm in Ololokwe, Kenya, 22 January 2020. Credit: FAO/Sven Torfinn.

Q&A: Are the 2019-20 locust swarms linked to climate change?

Explainers | Mar 10. 2020.
Ventusky weather forecast map
Visualisation of the jet stream Credit: Ventusky

Guest post: The underappreciated influence of the tropics on the ‘jet stream’

Guest posts | Mar 9. 2020.
Flooded fields in Worcestershire, UK, on 27 February 2020. Credit: Shaun Davey / Alamy Stock Photo. 2B1Y2HB
Flooded fields in Worcestershire, UK, on 27 February 2020. Credit: Shaun Davey / Alamy Stock Photo.

Met Office: Why the UK saw record-breaking rainfall in February 2020

Guest posts | Mar 5. 2020.
Amazon forest canopy at dawn, Brazil. Credit: Dr Peter Vander Sleen.
Amazon forest canopy at dawn, Brazil. Credit: Dr Peter Vander Sleen.

Guest post: World’s intact tropical forests reached ‘peak carbon uptake’ in 1990s

Guest posts | Mar 4. 2020.
A remote control pointed to a smart tv showing a selection of on-demand video streaming services
Multimedia television video streaming. Credit: Michael Zech / Alamy Stock Photo

Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix?

Factchecks | Feb 25. 2020.
York preparing for the highest flood river level in twenty years, 17 Feb 2020. Credit: Gary Calton / Alamy Stock Photo. 2AYX113
York preparing for the highest flood river level in twenty years, 17 Feb 2020. Credit: Gary Calton / Alamy Stock Photo.

Guest post: Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change?

Guest posts | Feb 20. 2020.
Gas flare stack burning at the Grangemouth oil refinery, Scotland Credit: Ian Rutherford / Alamy Stock Photo
Gas flare stack burning at the Grangemouth oil refinery, Scotland Credit: Ian Rutherford / Alamy Stock Photo

Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated’

GHGs and aerosols | Feb 19. 2020.
DAILY INFOGRAPHIC

Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond

Features | Oct 4. 2018.
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Coronavirus forces postponement of COP26 meeting in Glasgow

There is widespread global coverage of the news that the COP26 UN climate summit is being postponed until 2021 on a date yet to be confirmed, as a…

Daily Brief | Apr 2. 2020.

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