Megan Darby
Megan Darby is the editor of Climate Home News. She previously wrote about UK energy and water industries for leading sector publication Utility Week. She holds a Mathematics degree from Newcastle University.
NASA: Sea level rise is accelerating as ice melts
NEWS: Scientists form new team to address big uncertainties in the pace of future changes to ice sheets and the ocean
What does China’s Black Monday mean for the climate?
NEWS: Shanghai stock market crash will have rippling impacts on emissions, the green economy and Paris negotiations
US Navy invests in world’s largest solar farm
NEWS: Mesquite 210MW project soon to be overtaken by Indian and Chinese mega-arrays, as cheap solar panels compete with coal
Why restoring degraded land is crucial to the climate
COMMENT: A new fund is aiming to cut emissions from bad land management and improve food, energy and water security
Philippines is excluding vulnerable voices from climate consultation
COMMENT: Government is ignoring the people hardest hit by global warming with an unambitious and insincere national pledge
Peruvian relatives of murdered forest defenders win land title
NEWS: A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory
8 ways to cut the carbon footprint of your dinner
BLOG: From farm to plate, food accounts for up to a third of global emissions – so how can you limit the impact?
Hi-res models capture West Antarctic ice melt danger
NEWS: Precision mapping of melting glaciers can help predict potentially calamitous effects on sea levels, say scientists
Financial gatekeepers are blocking green investment – study
NEWS: Pension funds and investment consultants are passive on climate risk and locked into short-termism, say researchers
Russia, Ukraine dodgy carbon offsets cost the climate – study
NEWS: UN-backed scheme increased greenhouse gas emissions by 600Mt CO2e, researchers have found, due to accounting flaws
Weekly wrap: Coal, coal, coal… and Islam
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Brazil backs long term zero carbon goal as Merkel visits
NEWS: President Dilma Rousseff declared support for G7 stance on emissions phase-out after receiving German leader in Brasilia
Climate change is worsening California drought – study
NEWS: State could be in “more or less permanent” drought by 2060s, researchers warn as four-year dry spell takes its toll
Why coal miners need a moratorium (but can’t ask)
ANALYSIS: Australia’s dash for coal threatens existing miners as well as the climate, argues The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss
Glencore results show more pain for coal sector
NEWS: Climate change risk recognised as share price for commodities giant hits record low on first half earnings slump
Hillary Clinton opposes Arctic oil as Shell starts drilling
NEWS: US presidential candidate tweet sets her apart from Barack Obama stance slammed as “hypocritical” by campaigners
Muslim leaders tell petropowers to lead on climate change
NEWS: Islamic declaration on climate change calls on rich and oil producing states to lead according to religious principles
Norway fund divests from Asian firms over deforestation
NEWS: Leading investor put four major companies on its banned list for links to environmentally destructive palm oil plantations
Trees at risk in warming Andes upland forests
NEWS: Many plant species cannot migrate uphill fast enough to escape rising temperatures, scientists have found
Germany coal protest in pictures
NEWS: Organisers say 1,000 activists got into RWE’s opencast lignite mine in Rhineland, Germany on Saturday and halted diggers