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 ...

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

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

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.

Deadly rainfall and flooding struck across China and the government issued policies on clean-energy “price wars”.

Nations are meeting at a UN conference in Geneva, in a bid to develop a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution, BBC News reports.

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Republican strongholds, such as Texas, Wyoming and Oklahoma, stand to gain hundreds of thousands of jobs in the clean-energy sector as the US moves to a net-zero economy, a new study concludes. It ...

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 ...

In 2020, international regulations to reduce air pollution from shipping imposed strict limits on the sulphur content of marine fuels. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules have had some ...