Briefing: Florida communities with highest climate change risk face new Tallahassee hurdles
Strategic angle: New legislative challenges threaten efforts to address climate change in vulnerable Florida areas.
Editorial Staff Apr 5
Environment
Climate, ecology, sustainability, biodiversity, and energy transition.
Briefing: Climate experts say spring is coming earlier. How will that affect agriculture and ecosystems?
Strategic angle: An earlier spring affects when migratory birds arrive, leaves emerge, and fruit ripens — among plants and animals that determine ecosystem health.
Editorial Staff Apr 5
Briefing: The Left erupts as mining tycoon plans rare earths project 100ft from Joshua Tree desert tortoise habitat
Strategic angle: Controversy arises over environmental concerns as a mining tycoon proposes a new project near a protected habitat.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: Insects in the tropics are already near their heat limits. Climate change could push many beyond survival
Strategic angle: Insects, comprising up to 90% of all animal species, face critical survival challenges due to rising temperatures in tropical regions.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: Mitsubishi Materials, U.S. firm agree to team up on rare earth recycling
Strategic angle: Mitsubishi Materials collaborates with a U.S. company to enhance rare earth recycling efforts.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: I Was a Climate Activist. Here’s Why Net-Zero Leads to Disaster.
Strategic angle: A former climate activist shares insights on the pitfalls of net-zero policies.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: A Team of Cactus Lovers Is Saving Thousands of These Endangered Plants From a Mining Site
Strategic angle: Cactus enthusiasts are working tirelessly to protect endangered species from environmental threats.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: Why forest loss is making our watersheds leak rain
Strategic angle: The connection between forests and water is crucial, as studies reveal the impact of deforestation on watershed health.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: Forest Service overhaul sows confusion and concern
Strategic angle: In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, there are painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Conservation groups file lawsuit against Libby mining project
Daily Inter Lake reports on the legal action taken by conservation groups against a mining project in Libby.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: The cost of climate change is ‘hitting homes’ this Easter. Your lamb roast dinner is proof
Strategic angle: Climate-fuelled extreme weather is becoming farmers’ “biggest challenge”, as the price of lamb continues to soar.
Editorial Staff Apr 4
Briefing: German Tuner Has 17 Solutions To A Problem Cadillac’s Escalade Definitely Didn’t Have
Strategic angle: Larte Design has applied pink carbon fiber parts to a Cadillac Escalade, which was already doing fine getting attention without any of them.
Editorial Staff Apr 3
Briefing: Dangerous lignite: Bosnia and Herzegovina has problems with its energy transition
Strategic angle: Will Bosnia-Herzegovina's belated start to the energy transition delay its EU accession?
Editorial Staff Apr 3
Briefing: Smart bin makes recycling old batteries and gadgets idiot-proof
Strategic angle: A new smart bin technology simplifies the recycling process for old batteries and gadgets.
Editorial Staff Apr 3
Briefing: Greece clamps down on black market fishing as endangered sea urchins pushed towards extinction
Strategic angle: Thousands of endangered sea urchins are being pulled from the sea in Greece, as fisherman succumb to lucrative profits.
Editorial Staff Apr 3
Colombia pledges to exit investment protection system after fossil fuel lawsuits
Strategic angle: Experts warn that unwinding the Investor-State Dispute Settlement system will be complex, especially without international coordination The post Colombia pledges to exit investment protection system after fossil fuel law
Editorial Staff Apr 3
Briefing: Map shows scale of ecosystem disturbance across Australia
Strategic angle: University of Queensland researchers urge action to protect remaining ecosystems.
Editorial Staff Apr 3
Briefing: A global carbon credit program risks rewarding the wrong behavior
Strategic angle: A United Nations-backed framework for protecting tropical forests could allow governments to collect income from carbon credits without advancing forest conservation.
Editorial Staff Apr 2
Briefing: Omics consortium established to supercharge climate-adapted wheat breeding
Strategic angle: Adelaide University leads an international consortium to enhance wheat performance through spatial omics technologies.
Editorial Staff Apr 2
DeBriefed 2 April 2026: Countries ‘revive’ energy-crisis measures | Record UK renewables | Plug-in solar savings
Strategic angle: Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 2 April 2026: Countries ‘revive’ energy-crisis measures | Record UK renewables | Plug-in so
Editorial Staff Apr 2