Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative?
A surge in gas prices triggered by the Iran war has caused a knock-on spike…
Oil and gas
13.03.26
Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies
Explainers
Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling
Energy
11.03.26
Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
Food and farming
14.02.25
CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks
UK policy
Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action?
International policy
10.03.26
Heatwaves driving recent ‘surge’ in compound drought and heat extremes
Heatwaves
06.03.26
COP30 Belém
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Analysis: Why COP30’s ‘tripling adaptation finance’ target is less ambitious than it seems
03.12.25
Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents
28.11.25
COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém
26.11.25
Science
Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study
Global temperature
Policy
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Carbon Brief visits the Arctic
Associate editor Daisy Dunne travelled to the Arctic island of Svalbard to follow scientists studying the impacts of climate change.
‘Oh s**t, this is going quick’: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
Webinar: Carbon Brief joins scientists live at the UK’s Arctic Research Station
Nature
Cropped 11 March 2026: Iran water worries | Seabed-mining treaty progress | Women farmers and climate change
Cropped
Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting
Nature policy
02.03.26
Cropped 25 February 2026: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate
25.02.26
In Focus
DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristol’s ‘pioneering’ wind turbine
DeBriefed
