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

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.

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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A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could add 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans ...

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 ...

More than a dozen wildfires have been sweeping through Los Angeles in California, consuming tens of thousands of acres of land and devastating some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the US. As ...

Expansion of the “Azores high” – a high pressure system in the north Atlantic – is driving “unprecedented” changes in western Europe’s climate, new research suggests.

Over the past 10 years, the global energy transition away from coal has accelerated. The number of countries with coal power under development (pre-construction and construction) has nearly halved ...

The proportion of female and global south authors of reports by the UN’s IPCC has risen over the past three decades but challenges remain.