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There is widespread coverage of the Canyon Fire north of Los Angeles, which forced thousands of people to evacuate at the end of last week.
Wildfires have scorched more than 40,000 hectares of land so far this year across the UK – an area more than twice the size of the Scottish city of Glasgow.
Many people around the world say they are feeling more worried about climate change. Researchers call this growing phenomenon “climate anxiety”.
China’s power sector is both the world’s largest emitter and the largest source of clean-energy growth, making it essential to global climate efforts.
Trump is cancelling a large-scale wind project, which is “another blow to the US wind industry as the president seeks to propel fossil fuel development nationwide” ...
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Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.
Today's climate and energy headlines: Contrarian climate assessment from US government draws swift pushback The world is far off from a landmark goal to triple renewables UK: Shield poorer households ...
Extreme “wind droughts” that reduce power output from turbines for extended periods could become 15% longer by the end of the century across much of the northern hemisphere under a moderate warming ...
Carbon Brief highlights five charts from the SOFI report which explain the state of food insecurity around the world.
Heavy rains hit a number of northern provinces in China throughout the weekend, “intensif [ying] around Beijing and nearby provinces on Monday”, Reuters reports, with at least “four people killed in a ...
One in three people in informal settlements in the global south live in floodplains and are at risk of a “disastrous flood”.