Four common talking points surrounding China’s ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new projects might end.

There is widespread coverage of the Canyon Fire north of Los Angeles, which forced thousands of people to evacuate at the end of last week.

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.

Many people around the world say they are feeling more worried about climate change. Researchers call this growing phenomenon “climate anxiety”.

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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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.

China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.

2022 will be remembered for two significant milestones – a daily max temp of more than 40C and a national average temp over the year of more than 10C.

Human-caused emissions of aerosols – tiny, light‑scattering particles produced mainly by burning fossil fuels – have long acted as an invisible brake on global warming. This is largely because they ...