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

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

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

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

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.

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

UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are just some of the foods that became markedly more expensive after extreme weather events in recent years, according to new research. The ...

One in three people in informal settlements in the global south live in floodplains and are at risk of a “disastrous flood”.

ICJ said “wealthy” nations must cut emissions or risk reparations and around 90% of renewable projects are now cheaper than fossil fuels.

The global energy transition is now “unstoppable” due to “smart economics”, UN secretary-general António Guterres has said in an online speech titled: “A moment of opportunity.” His comments coincide ...

Today's climate and energy headlines: World on cusp of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says World court is poised to mark the future course of climate litigation Japan ...

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.