Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.
The year 2025 was the warmest on record for the heat content of the world’s oceans. Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s.
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy ...
Carbon Brief speaks to experts about the contested legality of leaving the UNFCCC and what practical changes will result from US departure.
US plans for Venezuelan oil could “consume more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C” by 2050 ...
Trump administration said it wants to pull the US out of UNFCCC and IPCC and Global oil prices fell after the US’s Venezuela operation.
Donald Trump has told reporters that he may block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the US oil company’s chief executive said the country was “uninvestable” ...
The US, which has announced plans to withdraw from the global climate treaty is more historically responsible for climate change than any other country ...
UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants set records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity from gas still went up.