The biggest coal project before authorities in New South Wales, the HVO mine, will emit the equivalent of about 809m tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide if it wins approval. That number, for most people, will carry little meaning, as might the calculation that adding that amount of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere will cause an extra 0.00036C of global heating. But what if the public was instead told that that amount of carbon dioxide would expose almost half a million people to unprecedented heat, or kill nearly 15 million coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef every time it bleaches? All those statistics come from a new tool that translates the emissions from burning fossil fuels into estimated real-world climate effects taken from peer-reviewed climate studies. “Small numbers in global warming can mean catastrophic impacts,” says prof Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist at the Australian National University who is part of a team launching the Carbon Impacts Tracer. The NSW Independent Planning Commission is expected to make a decision this week about the future of the HVO mine, with the joint owners Yancoal and Glencore hoping to keep digging at the Hunter Valley site until 2045. Plugging the project’s expected...

Last year, Venezuela lost its last glacier. Neighboring Colombia also saw a glacier melt out of existence. Around the world, all 58 glaciers monitored by the American Meteorological Society lost mass during 2024. Since observations began in 1970, only one...

Primient's four business pillars are safety, excellence, integrity and growth, with safety covering quality and environmental care, excellence applying across the business, integrity guiding internal collaboration and growth covering people, company scale and facilities. Primient has achieved a 30% reduction...

More analysis is needed to ensure that tropical forest degeneration and regeneration are consistently reported in carbon cycle models and in national reporting, according to a study funded in part by ESA's Climate Change Initiative Biomass project. The study analysed how tropical forests store carbon under varying conditions and then release it back into the atmosphere. The scenarios studied range from complete forest destruction through deforestation, which is relatively well understood, to forest degradation, whereby the forest’s condition worsens over time due to damage and organic decomposition, for example through wildfires or selective logging, which is often inconsistently reported in models or omitted altogether. The paper, published in Science Advances, reviewed evidence from 146 peer-reviewed studies, conducted from 1988 to January 2026. It delivers the most comprehensive meta-analysis yet of how disturbances such as fires, logging and fragmentation drive carbon loss in tropical forests and how degraded forests recover afterwards. Partial damage or clearance: how forests react It focused on a specific subcategory of tropical forest, which receive high annual rainfall but also have a pronounced dry season. These tropical moist forests are usually near the equator and hold roughly 70% of all carbon stored in the world's living vegetation...

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Newswise — Soil, a major global carbon sink, holds more than twice the amount of organic carbon found in vegetation biomass and the atmosphere. As climate change accelerates, understanding the dynamics of soil carbon has become increasingly important, particularly regarding...

Climate scientists have been attributing storms, droughts and heatwaves to global warming for two decades. Now, they are tracing the chain of responsibility all the way back to the producers of fossil fuels. A study published today in Nature shows...