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China Briefing 4 September 2025: Shanghai cooperation summit; ETS ‘absolute emissions cap’; China’s heatwave adaptation
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 4 September 2025: Shanghai cooperation summit; ETS ‘absolute emissions cap’; China’s heatwave adaptation appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:
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Coal Is Rising Along with Solar in the U.S. Power System, While Gas Loses a Step
Coal and utility-scale solar power each gained market share in the first half of this year, newly released data on U.S. electricity generation show. Natural gas, while still the market leader, lost some share. So what’s going on? The increase for coal and decrease for gas can be largely attributed to the prices of each […]
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Q&A: How China is adapting to ‘more frequent and intense’ heat extremes
China has seen a series of temperature records broken this summer, as heatwaves have struck... The post Q&A: How China is adapting to ‘more frequent and intense’ heat extremes appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Bureaucracy stops Belém residents from listing rooms on official COP30 platform
Government restrictions mean only real estate agencies with more than 40 properties can list on the official COP30 accommodation platform The post Bureaucracy stops Belém residents from listing rooms on official COP30 platform appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Zambia Ordered a Mining Company to Pay Villagers After a Toxic Waste Spill. The Firm Made Them Sign Away Their Rights First
Planet China: Sixth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. A Chinese mining company that spilled toxic waste on impoverished Zambian villages got people to waive their right to sue using a government-ordered compensation process, according to documents reviewed by Inside Climate News. In July, the […]
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Fossil-Fueled Climate Heating Set the Stage for Devastating Fires in Spain and Portugal This Summer
A new attribution report published Thursday shows that global warming made the extreme hot and dry conditions preceding this summer’s wildfires in Portugal and Spain 40 times more likely and 30 percent more intense than in pre-industrial climate conditions. The fires have killed at least eight people, and tens of thousands were evacuated as health-damaging […]
Published on: September 04, 2025 | Source:Residents Living in the Shadow of the Steel Industry Ask the EPA to Reconsider Delay of Hazardous Air Pollution Rule
At a hearing held Wednesday to gather public comments on the Trump administration’s delay of tighter restrictions on hazardous air pollution from steel manufacturing, residents urged the government to consider the impact on public health. “What’s missing from this conversation and this decision is people. The people who, every day, are exposed to hundreds of […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Without Well-Funded Public Transit, Philadelphia’s Climate Future Looks Bleak
PHILADELPHIA—Three days a week, Daniel Blazek takes the train from his Center City neighborhood to his job in supply chain management in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He’s relied on public transit to get to work for the past eight years. But next year, he may not be able to take the train anymore. The SEPTA line that […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms
Simon Stiell calls for "strong" climate targets to be submitted as soon as possible to ensure their inclusion in a critical UN progress report The post UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Corpus Christi Folds on Its Desalination Gamble
After a decade of efforts and tens of millions of dollars invested, the Corpus Christi City Council moved to cancel a contract for a seawater desalination plant in a 1 a.m. vote Wednesday at the end of a rancorous, 13-hour public meeting. The plant was first proposed to meet the water demands of industrial facilities […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:New climate assessment for Jackdaw gas field
Oil giant Shell had to review its assessment after a judge ruled the Jackdaw field was permitted unlawfully.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Without robust action, new EU carbon pricing plan could leave vulnerable people behind
The expansion of Europe's emissions trading system to buildings and road transport needs comprehensive social measures to cushion the poorest groups from cost increases The post Without robust action, new EU carbon pricing plan could leave vulnerable people behind appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells
This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and ProPublica. Hakim Dermish moved to the small South Texas town of Catarina in 2002 in search of a rural lifestyle on a budget. The property where he lived with his wife didn’t have electricity or sewer lines at first, but that didn’t bother him. “Even […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People
This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society. Establishing the reserve would represent the latest step in a decades-long effort to protect thousands of such isolated Indigenous people across Peru’s […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Activists Decry New Border Wall’s Impact on Wildlife
This story was originally published byNational Catholic Reporter. TUCSON, Ariz.—The Trump administration is muscling forward with plans to wall off a critical international wildlife corridor, setting up construction camps to erect a 30-foot barrier along one of the few remaining gaps on the U.S.-Mexico border. The first of the steelbollards are expected to go up […]
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Major financiers neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms
Financial institutions are lacking safeguards to prevent harms caused by mining the resources needed for the energy transition, analysis of the sector's financing finds The post Major financiers neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 03, 2025 | Source:Captain Scott’s famous polar shipwreck as never seen before
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Watch: Captain Scott’s famous polar shipwreck as never seen before
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Dozens of Scientists Call DOE Climate Report ‘Fundamentally Incorrect’
More than 85 climate scientists declared the Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review released Tuesday. The DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, lacked peer-reviewed studies to support its questioning of the detrimental effects of climate change in the U.S. and is “fundamentally incorrect,” the authors concluded. Scientists have accurately modeled […]
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:The Climate and Biodiversity Knowledge We Lose When Everything’s in English
English is the dominant language in research—it’s essentially the lingua franca of science. A common-ground language enables findings to be disseminated around the globe, which has led to a number of breakthroughs in climate and biodiversity research as scientists connect the dots across different fields. Yet this outsized English representation has major drawbacks, a growing […]
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:UN experts accuse top oil firms of rights violations over Nigerian asset sales
Divestments were made without paying hefty clean-up bills or compensating communities in the pollution-scarred Niger Delta, UN working group says The post UN experts accuse top oil firms of rights violations over Nigerian asset sales appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Victims of Zambian copper mine disaster demand multibillion dollar payout
Dozens of families are threatening to sue China's Sino-Metals over a devastating spill of toxic mining waste that caused one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters The post Victims of Zambian copper mine disaster demand multibillion dollar payout appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Leaving EPA Behind, Environmental Justice Pioneer Preaches Hope Amid Trump Cutbacks
One year ago, Charles Lee could look across the federal government and see his life’s work in action on multiple fronts—new grants awarded to minority communities overburdened with pollution, a new expert science panel established to look at their unique mix of health risks and the first White House Summit on Environmental Justice in Action […]
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Support grows for COP30 ‘just transition’ talks to address critical minerals
Developing nations want minerals production and energy access - not just fossil fuel workers - to be included in discussions on a fair low-carbon transition The post Support grows for COP30 ‘just transition’ talks to address critical minerals appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Summer 2025 confirmed as UK's hottest on record
Provisional Met Office figures show that it has been the warmest summer on record - meaning the UK's five hottest summers have all occurred since 2000.
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Call for pitches: Climate Home News seeks story ideas on critical mineral supply chains
Do you have original story ideas about the trends shaping supply chains for energy transition minerals and how to address their sustainability challenges? Get in touch The post Call for pitches: Climate Home News seeks story ideas on critical mineral supply chains appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Can the ICJ opinion bring climate justice for Indigenous peoples?
The landmark ruling by the world's top court says national climate policies must protect Indigenous and minority rights - but to be effective, it needs to be enforced by states The post Can the ICJ opinion bring climate justice for Indigenous peoples? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Tories pledge to get all oil and gas out of North Sea
The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:How a Rock Band Bassist Is Remixing Climate Activism
Imagine if every climate policy rollback was met with the same unshakable loyalty Swifties show when Taylor drops a breakup song. What if climate action had the same unstoppable energy as Beyoncé’s BeyHive, marching full speed ahead toward a green economy? According to Adam Met, the climate movement could learn a thing or two from […]
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:In the Once Heavily Polluted Chicago River, More Fish, a Giant Snapping Turtle and an Upcoming Swim
CHICAGO—Krystyna Kurth likes to begin her tours of the river cutting past the city’s post-industrial area with a word association game. Kurth, coordinator of conservation action at the Shedd Aquarium, first began leading Kayak for Conservation tours of the Chicago River’s North Branch six years ago. When she started, the first words about it that […]
Published on: September 01, 2025 | Source:Canada's first lunar rover looks to future space exploration
The mission's goal is to find water on the Moon, which could open the door for a sustained human presence there.
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:Climate Change Worsens Half-Century of Drinking Water Problems for Maine Native Reservation
Second of two articles about the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s struggles with sea level rise, water quality and habitat resilience on the coast of Maine. SIPAYIK, Maine—The smell of saltwater is one of Brian Altvater’s favorite parts of living in Sipayik. Wherever you go on the tiny Maine peninsula, home to the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation, you […]
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:With New Jersey Still Reeling From Summer Storms, Fossil Fuel Interests Fight ‘Climate Superfund’ Bill
Torrential rain and high winds killed at least five people and caused damage worth millions of dollars in New Jersey in July alone, but the fate of a bill that would require fossil fuel companies to pay for past damages from the changing climate and future resilience measures remains uncertain. The state’s Climate Superfund Act […]
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:AI’s Massive Energy Demands
The data centers that power artificial intelligence require huge amounts of electricity. Some experts estimate we’ll need as much as 25% more electricity by 2030, and 78% by 2050, to meet this demand alone. Whether that electricity comes from renewable energy or fossil fuels has big implications for climate change. Dan explains why we should […]
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:‘Public enemy number one’: The battle against an eight-toothed beetle threatening UK forests
Forest Research said the UK is the first country to eradicate the beetle after five-year battle.
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