May 2026:

12/05/2026: Paddison L, Radio NZ/CNN. “ ‘Not normal’: On one April day, all of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities were in a single country”

06/05/2026: Smith L GBN “Climate scientists admit doomsday scenario no longer believable”

04/05/2026: International Energy Agency “Global Methane Tracher 2026”.

01/05/2026L: Harvey F and Wats J, the Guardian. “Could Santa Marta [Columbia] climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?”

April 2026:

29/04/2026: Lewis H and Harrington L, Radio NZ/The Conversation “Cities are getting hotter – and bigger. New research reveals the scale of the challenge”

28/04/2026: Tang H, The Conversation. “How Antarctica warmed by 28°C in the depths of winter – and what it signals for the decades ahead”

25/04/2026: Gayle D, The Guardian “Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions”

23/04/2026: Monbiot G The Guardian. “A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it”

19/04/2026: Kjørsta E, Science Norway. “This could happen at two degrees of global warming”See Bevacqua 25th March article

15/04/2026: Portmann V et al., Sci. Adv. 12, Issue 16, “Observational constraints project a ~50% AMOC weakening by the end of this century”

06/04/2026: Readfern G, The Guardian. “Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds”‍ ‍The article cites the Open Access paper by Perkins-Kirkpatriack S E et al “Deadly heat stress conditions are already occurring” in Nature Communications 17, Article number: 2590 (2026)

02/04/2026: Kerr D The Guardian, “Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals”

March 2026

27/03/2027: Casasas A, Alert!. “Navigating Climate Change: 25 quality websites for European (and worldwide) environmental information”

26/03/2026: Fitzsimmons C, Stuff. “A ‘globally catastrophic’ super El Nino could form by spring”

26/03/2026: Newberry La Vey J, The Conversation. “Why emotional resilience should be at the heart of climate change education”

25/03/2026: Bevacqua E et al. Nature Volume 651, “Moderate global warming does not rule out extreme global climate outcome”

25./03/2026: Grover-Kopec et al.Climate Impact Lab. “Human Health Measuring the impact of rising temperatures on mortality to target adaptation planning”

25/03/20026: Milman O. The Guardian. “US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds”

24/03/2026: Parliament of Australia. “Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy The Integrity Gap: Restoring Trust in the Climate and Energy Debate”

23/03/2026: United Nations“Earth’s climate in 'state of emergency', UN warns as warming accelerates”

23/03/2026: World Meteorological Organisation, “State of the Global Climate 2025”

23/03/2026: World Meteorological Organisation - Press Release. “Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance”A great article for explaning the issue , with graphics

23/03/2026: Watts J, The Guardian. “What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?”

19/03.2026: Gelles D, New York Times. “The Planet’s Warning Signs Are Flashing Red”

13/04/2026: Canon G, The Guardian. “Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’ – and what could we expect?”

12/03/2026: Wibisono S et al, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology Volume 10, 2026 “Using person-centred analyses to predict engagement in collective action for the climate” [Open Access article]

12/03/2026: CBC News. “A better way to measure individual climate action” The article proposes a “carbon capability” measurement tool to replace carbon footprint tools, with the former extending the scope of information gathered with a comprehensive survey about people’s jobs, relationships, politics, transport and other lifestyle preferences. The article is based on an interview with one of the authors of the research - published in an open source article “Measuring carbon capability beyond the carbon footprint” in the Communications Sustainability journal

11/03/2026: The UK Climate Change Committee, in a Supplementary analysis of the Seventh Carbon Budget, have advised that achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs. in essence, eliminating the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels by adopting renewable energy and green technologies, such as electric vehicles and heat pumps, would be the best and most cost-effective option for their future economy.

11/03/2026: Watts J, The Guardian. “A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds” [The article that is referenced is Parsons L A et al “Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults” in Environ Res: Health 4 (2026) 015013. 10 March 2026. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ae3c3a]

10/04/2026: Editorial, Nature Climate Change, “Research that captures a changing world”

06/03/2026: Ruhland K Earth.Org “Have Economists Been Underestimating the Cost of Climate Change?”

06/03/2026: Rhamstorf S and Foster G. Geophysical Research Letters 53(5) “Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly”

03/03/2026: Igini M, Earth.Org “Political Attack’: Scientists Condemn Removal of Climate Chapter From US Judges’ Reference Manual”

03/03/2026: Grant H Scoop “Where Climate Stories Go When The Climate Beat Shrinks”

February 2026

27/02/2026: Debisso K “The Silent Majority Paradox: Why Climate Change Has Faded from the Public Debate”

23/02/2026: Newton K. RNZ News. “ ‘Every tonne matters': The climate scientist who wants to give you hope”

20/02/2026: Ripple W J et al One Earth9(2) “The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory”

16/02/2026: European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change “Strengthening Resilience to Climate Change Recommendations for an effective EU adaptation policy framework”

January 2026

21/01/2026: Carrington D, The Guardian. “Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows”

December 2025

29/12/2025: World Weather Attribution, “Unequal evidence and impacts, limits to adaptation: Extreme Weather in 2025”

26/12/2025: The Guardian Editorial “The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather”

09/12/2025: UN Environment Programme “Global Environment Outlook 7” tells us what we stand to gain if we “… change direction to a path that tackles the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation, and pollution and waste”.

October 2025

30/10/2025: Chancel L and Mohren C, World Inequality Lab “Climate Inequality Report 2025. Climate Change A Capital Challenge; Why Climate Policy Must Tackle Ownership”

29/10/2025: The UN Environment Programme, publishes “Running on Empty. The world is gearing up gearing up for climate resilience — without the money to get there”

29/10/2025: OXFAM “Climate plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster”

28/11/2025: The Guardian, “Report on the first UK national emergency briefing on climate change risks”

25/09/2025: Kasia Kosmala-Dahlbeck et al, NEXT/UC Berkley The Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment (CLEE), “COSTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE financial and economic impacts on california and u.s. households”

13/10/2025: Global Tipping Points “The Global Tipping Points Report 2025”

08/10/2025: Amnesty International, “Navigating injustice’: Climate displacement from the Pacific Islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati to Aotearoa New Zealand”

01/10/2025: Timperley J “Worried about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take”, BBC

September 2025

03/09/2025: Gidden M J et al have published a paper “A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage”, Nature | Vol 645 | 4 September 2025, re-looking at this issue. This work concludes that the Earth’s capacity for safely storing carbon might be 10 times smaller than previously predicted, limiting its impact as a tool against the climate crisis - cutting global warming by 0.7°C, much lower than the 6°C that was previously estimated.

August 2025

Paltsev S and Schlosser A, MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, “2025 Global Change Outlook Assessing risks to human well-being and pathways to a more sustainable future”

30/08/2025: A large group of climate science experts, [Dessler, A.E. and R.E. Kopp (Ed.).[ concerned about the DOE review of the impacts of GHG - below - have submitted , to DOE, “ Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) Report” because the CWG report currently fails to adequately represent the scientific understanding of climate change.

28/08/2025: YIJIE WANG et al have published a paper in Science Volume 389 Issue 6763, “Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation” that suggests <40 petagrams of carbon storage by 2050 from reforestation and afforestation, which is much lower than previous estimates.

14/08/2025: In response to the US DOE “review” below, Carbon Brief has published Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

July 2025

23/07/2025: The United States Department of Energy (DOE) published A critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate - commissioned by the Trump administration in an attempt to justify a rollback of US climate regulations

23/07/2025: The International Court of Justice has delivered a landmark “Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change”. Unfortunately, S/Space isn’t accepting the link - it is https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/187/187-20250723-adv-01-00-en.pdf

22/07/2025: A United Nations report “A Moment of Opportunity”, a special technical report about clean energy. Note: Positively, 88% of New Zealand’s electricity generation was from renewable sources in 2023, however 99% of transport energy and 60% of our industrial energy is from the use of fossil fuels]

14/07/2025: A Review - the “State of the UK Climate 2024” - has been published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climatology, Volume 45, Number S1

14/07/2025: A Guardian editorial suggesting that an annual address on climate - as delivered by the UK Energy Secretary - could “set a new standard for political accountability”

May 2025

29/05/2025: A news item about Atlantic Ocean Current Expected to Undergo Limited Weakening with Climate Change - although the AMOC will weaken under global warming, it is likely to do so to a much lesser extent than current projections suggest.

28/05/2025: A World Meteorological Organisation report “Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update (2025-2029)” projects that global temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five years,

7/05/2025: An open access paper in Nature Climate Change on High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide

April 2025

11/04/25: The US site Health Policy Watch has reported that the US is to Stop Reporting Majority of Climate Emissions

March 2025

25/03/2025: An article published on LinkedIn on Climate Risk Insurance: The Future of Capitalism

2/03/2025: The Boston Consulting Group publication “Landing the Economic Case for Climate Action with Decision Makers”

19/03/25: The World Meteorological Organisation has released its State of the Global Climate 2024 report

February 2025

15/02/25: An article by Gaia Vince in The Guardian “Extreme weather is our new reality. We must accept it and begin planning”

January 2025

17/01/25: An article by Damian Carrington in The Guardian “Wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2”

16/1/25: Institute and Facility of Actuaries/University of Exeter “Planetary Solvency - finding our balance with nature. Global risk management for human prosperity”