Climate science
IPCC election: What makes a great UN climate science chief?
ANALYSIS: What qualities are a must for the world’s pre-eminent climate job? Ahead of this week’s election, we asked five experts
Climate pledges overshoot 2C target but emissions gap narrowing
NEWS: If fully enacted, national plans will hold warming to 2.7C by end of century, analysts say on UN deadline day
Philippines emissions target hinges on loss and damage
NEWS: Manila plan to cut carbon 70% by 2030 banks on rich countries footing natural disaster bill
Pacific states face volatile seas as warming intensifies El Nino
NEWS: Scientists warn greenhouse gas emissions will cause bigger swings in ocean levels, threatening vulnerable coastal communities
What role should climate compensation have in a Paris deal?
ANALYSIS: Poor countries want rich polluters to pay out for climate damages. We asked five analysts how a new pact might resolve the freighted matter
World leaders home in on long-term green goal
NEWS: Xi Jinping, Angela Merkel and Dilma Rousseff among 30 head of states backing clearer pathway to limit warming to 2C
Six climate nuggets from Obama’s Rolling Stone interview
NEWS: US president confident Paris will see climate deal, thinks pace of carbon cutting will accelerate once structure is in place
Thawing permafrost could cost world economy $43 trillion
NEWS: Released greenhouse gases could rack up huge costs by year 2200, but swift action would dramatically cut impact, study says
Global warming ‘hiatus’ theory trashed by new study
NEWS: Notion temperatures paused between 1998-2013 dismantled by Stanford researchers in further blow to climate sceptics
Permafrost diaries: Heading deeper into Siberia
BLOG: Olga Dobrovidova investigates the social and economic impacts of thawing permafrost in Russia’s remote Arctic towns
‘Predictioneers’ forecast Paris climate talks outcome with game theory
NEWS: What will countries agree to at this December’s critical UN summit? Researchers are mapping the likely outcome
Southern Ocean starts to absorb carbon again
NEWS: Great oceanic “lung” is again breathing in lots of CO2 from the atmosphere but scientists can’t say why or whether it will last
Burn all fossil fuels and New York drowns – study
NEWS: Exploiting global reserves would melt all Antarctica and jack up sea levels by 50m. Though it would take 10,000 years
Permafrost diaries: Touching down in northern Siberia
BLOG: Olga Dobrovidova investigates the social and economic impacts of thawing permafrost in Russia’s remote Arctic towns
Small forest users can outcompete agribusiness – study
NEWS: Finance must flow to local enterprises to slow deforestation and internal displacement wrought by clearance for agriculture, report says
Google lays bare overlooked deforestation ‘hotspots’
NEWS: Search giant and researchers map emerging clusters of tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa
Arctic countries vow ‘urgent action’ to slow polar melt
NEWS: US-led Glacier summit warns of climate impacts in sensitive region, but China and India do not sign declaration
Obama makes Arctic appeal for action on climate
NEWS: “This is a solvable problem if we start now,” US president says at close of Glacier summit in Anchorage, Alaska
Arctic climate summit: Do leaders love their children enough?
COMMENT: President Obama spoke of his daughters at the Glacier meeting in Alaska, but it was a cab driver whose words hit home
Arctic summit and interim talks heat up climate agenda
CRIB NOTES 31 AUG – 4 SEP: US president Barack Obama heads to Alaska, while climate negotiators meet in Bonn