A wildfire fanned by strong winds tore through an affluent Los Angeles neighbourhood yesterday, forcing 30,000 people to evacuate, and more climate news.

President Joe Biden has announced a "permanent stop” to new oil and gas drilling across more than 625m acres of coastal waters around the US ...

Donald Trump has criticised the UK government’s energy policy with a call to “open up” North Sea oil and gas production and “get rid of windmills” ...

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Separately, 2024 was Australia’s second hottest year on record, reports the Guardian. Data from the Bureau of Meteorology found that, last year, the country was 1.46C above the “long-term average” ...

The UK’s electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, new Carbon Brief analysis shows, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade. This is because the UK ...

The Biden administration has pledged that the US will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 61% over the next decade, Bloomberg reports.

A new action plan “outlining standards for upgrades [for the raw materials industry] over the next three years” was issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and three ...

The number of new coal plants under development in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) region has reached record lows since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015.