Groundwater is the biggest store of accessible freshwater in the world, providing billions of people with water for drinking and crop irrigation. That’s all despite…
A new-wave nuclear power that could cut down carbon emissions, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies that will…
In February, school students across the UK joined a growing international movement of school ‘climate strikes’, which has seen children skip their Friday lessons to…
Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is…
Many people are surprised to learn that current lawn practices wreak havoc on the environment. Chemical fertilizers, pesticides, watering, and lawn equipment such as lawn…
By upcycling biomass, innovators aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the economic viability of farming May 14, 2019 — When we pick up…
In the seventh article of a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Australia’s complex climate politics and…
Young people around the world are working to clean up a dirty fashion industry. The $2 trillion industry is responsible for 10% of the global carbon…
Microplastics have been discovered in a remote area of the French Pyrenees mountains. The particles travelled through the atmosphere and were blown into the once…
Changes in temperature and rainfall could drastically reduce maize yields by the end of the century in northeast Brazil, one of the country’s poorest and…
In the sixth article of a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Indonesia’s efforts to curb deforestation…
By rolling upgrade costs into monthly bills, utilities are helping customers save energy and money at the same time For customers of the Roanoke Electric…
In the fifth article of a series explaining how large emitters are positioned to tackle climate change, Carbon Brief sets out India’s key policy developments,…