There is widespread coverage of the latest failure of talks to agree the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution.

GRID PRESSURES: Iraq suffered a “near nationwide blackout” as elevated power demand – due to extreme temperatures of around 50C – triggered a transmission line failure, Bloomberg reported.

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

Climate change drove record levels of humidity around the world last year, according to the latest “state of the climate” report from the American Meteorological Society ...

with another round of negotiations looming at COP30 in November, there has been growing discontent with the UN climate process.

An uptick in heat extremes has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to new analysis.

Expansion of the “Azores high” – a high pressure system in the north Atlantic – is driving “unprecedented” changes in western Europe’s climate, new research suggests.

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.

COP decisions are always adopted by consensus. How has consensus decision-making played out over the decades during UN climate negotiations?