Penguins’ poop may be making Antarctica cloudier — and helping mitigate the regional impacts of climate change. Gases emitted from the birds’ guano are supplying key chemical ingredients to form…
Category: Earth
Forest loss hits “frightening” record high with climate-fuelled fires
Forest destruction surged to record highs in 2024 as the effects of climate change supercharged human-made fires in some of the planet’s most critical carbon stores, an annual survey by…
Governments shouldn’t rely forests to meet their emissions goals
Bill Hare is CEO and founder of Climate Analytics, and Claudio Forner is head of climate policy at Climate Analytics. To address climate change, the answer should be relatively…
Nigerian president’s solar system stir debate over renewables for the rich
Nigeria’s presidential villa is being kitted out with a $6-million solar mini-grid – a pricey solution to erratic power supplies that small business manager Victor Onyim can only dream of…
Europe’s lithium rush leaves mineral-rich communities in the dark
Mountain guide Eduardo Mostazo was born and raised in Cáceres, a small city in southwest Spain close to Portugal, which has suffered a rural exodus. Now it faces a new…
Surfer, first lady and former PM among Brazil’s COP30 envoys
Brazil’s COP30 presidency has appointed 30 envoys to liaise with “priority sectors and regions” ahead of the UN climate summit in November, among them champion surfer Maya Gabeira, first lady…
Trump shifts US foreign energy funding to fossil fuel expansion
From Africa to Southeast Asia, the Trump administration is cancelling US support for projects designed to replace coal, oil and gas with clean energy, pushing instead for the use of…
How to make electric vehicles that don’t trash forests with mining
Perrine Fournier is a forest and mining campaigner at forests and rights NGO Fern. Our fossil fuel addiction must end for humanity to have a livable future. An important element in…
Let’s use early milestones to stay focused on climate action
Mukhtar Babayev is COP29 President and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. It has been a noisy few months since the COP29 climate summit in Baku. Unpredictability, volatility, distraction…
Rising copper demand fuels concern over pollution and rights abuses
To help meet the needs of the energy transition, global demand for copper – a mineral critical for making electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels – is set to…
