GRID PRESSURES: Iraq suffered a “near nationwide blackout” as elevated power demand – due to extreme temperatures of around 50C – triggered a transmission line failure, Bloomberg reported.

Climate change drove record levels of humidity around the world last year, according to the latest “state of the climate” report from the American Meteorological Society ...

Four common talking points surrounding China’s ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new projects might end.

Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.

An uptick in heat extremes has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to new analysis.

Extreme heat fanning deadly wildfires in Europe has killed at least three people and caused thousands more to evacuate, the Guardian reports.

Human-caused emissions of aerosols – tiny, light‑scattering particles produced mainly by burning fossil fuels – have long acted as an invisible brake on global warming. This is largely because they ...

China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.

The leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UK’s net-zero by 2050 target.

Scientists have the option of using a type of simpler model known as emulator models to provide climate projections.

Carbon Brief is summarising the climate pledges made by countries ahead of the UN's climate meeting in Paris this December.