Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.

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

Extreme heat fanning deadly wildfires in Europe has killed at least three people and caused thousands more to evacuate, the Guardian reports.

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

China’s power sector is both the world’s largest emitter and the largest source of clean-energy growth, making it essential to global climate efforts.

Deadly rainfall and flooding struck across China and the government issued policies on clean-energy “price wars”.

Nations are meeting at a UN conference in Geneva, in a bid to develop a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution, BBC News reports.

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China’s clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are helping to cut emissions in other countries.

More than a dozen wildfires have been sweeping through Los Angeles in California, consuming tens of thousands of acres of land and devastating some of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in the US. As ...

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.