Global oil prices have fallen slightly “after the US operation to oust Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro created uncertainty.

UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants set records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity from gas still went up.

US halts offshore wind licences over national security concerns, and more climate news from the past 24 hours.

A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. This extra ...

The UK government could approve 13 new oil and gas projects in the North Sea, with the fuel produced emitting 350m tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) if burned, Carbon Brief analysis shows. The Labour ...

The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget” say.

Amid a rapidly fracturing geopolitical order, there have been growing calls for China to “step into [the] leadership gap” left by the US on climate change. As well as underscoring his nation’s ongoing ...

Around 50m years ago, Earth was struck by a series of short-term phases of rapid global warming, known collectively as “hyperthermals”. The rate of CO2 release during the hyperthermals was much slower ...

This guest post is by: Lauri Myllyvirta, analyst at Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air covering air quality and energy trends in China. China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have grown at ...

The term “climate justice” captures the various ways in which global warming impacts people differently and the approaches that can be taken to address this problem “fairly”. Climate-justice language ...

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy use and industry could peak as soon as this year, according to Carbon Brief analysis of figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA’s ...