This week, Carbon Brief covers a new UN-backed report that examines the impacts of climate change on labour productivity and health.

Since China’s flood season began in July, extreme rainfall has caused more than 16bn yuan ($2bn) in “road damage” across more than two-thirds of the nation’s “administrative divisions” ...

China and India accounted for 87% of the new coal-power capacity put into operation in the first half of 2025, whereas other regions continued to move away from coal. These develo ...

Future projections indicate hydrological droughts will become more severe in the UK, especially over the months of April to ...

Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia over 2001-20, new research finds.

This summer has been “almost certainly” the hottest on record across the UK, BBC News reports, based on provisional statistics from the Met Office.

Scientists are the most trusted source of information for climate change in some of the largest global-south countries, ...

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Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.

The EU is experiencing its worst wildfire season on record, exceeding 1m hectares of land burned for the first time on record, according to analysis by Politico.

Observations reveal that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of summer has halved, since satellite records began in the late 1970s.