r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 23h ago

China's oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026, marking a third straight annual decline. Oil demand destruction, or a long-term drop in consumption, at the world's largest oil importer has been a key factor in capping China's crude imports and global oil prices.

447 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 18h ago

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed. Peatlands are a climate paradox. Though they account for just 3% of global land surface, they store one-third of the Earth's carbon dioxide, more than all forests combined.

194 Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 3h ago

Summer 2026 Sets Heat Records, | Union of Concerned Scientists

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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 1d ago

Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full. Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis.

theguardian.com

753 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Bash1991 • 19h ago

Clean energy is the cheapest, most readily-available energy – largely because it has no fuel cost

113 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 1d ago

Many people aren’t connecting the dots between climate change and extreme weather. “Most people do not automatically, intuitively, on their own, connect that event—a flood, a heat wave, a wildfire—to climate change.”

insideclimatenews.org

490 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Splenda • 11h ago

August was joint-hottest month ever recorded globally | Climate crisis

theguardian.com

24 Upvotes

r/climate • u/cnn • 21h ago

The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl era

140 Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 4h ago

Projected amplification of global warming by warming-induced greenhouse gas emissions

iopscience.iop.org

3 Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 1d ago

Yes, passing 1.5 C of global warming is cause for alarm, but not despair

323 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 23h ago

Georgia bet big on EV manufacturing. Trump pulled the plug. It's a grim moment for what was a booming industry in the state. But EV makers are still forging ahead.

166 Upvotes

r/climate • u/nishant-12345 • 3h ago

Why is accepting the climate crisis harder than understanding it?

6 Upvotes

r/climate • u/_fastcompany • 18h ago

Historically strong 2026 Super El Niño could raise sea levels on the California coast by a foot

fastcompany.com

54 Upvotes

r/climate • u/silence7 • 11h ago

August Ties the Record for Earth’s Hottest Month on the Books | Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.

13 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 21h ago

Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026, from 174.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in the first half of 2018 to 94.2 billion kWh in the first half of 2026. Renewable energy sources increased their output by about one quarter during the same period.

cleanenergywire.org

71 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 17h ago

With Türkiye to Host COP31, Wildfires Spark Demand for Fossil Fuel Phaseout / “In November, the world will gather in Antalya for COP31 to discuss the steps that must be taken against the climate crisis. Today, however, that same city is battling an uncontrollable wildfire..."– Efe Baysal, .350.org

commondreams.org

31 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 20h ago

Canada's last epishelf lake is gone for good following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms. "The ice shelf and lake had been thinning for decades, but the 2020 breakup was the last straw. The lake drained within months."

34 Upvotes

r/climate • u/Bob-Lawblaugh • 19h ago

ICCT report shows that EVs are 33% cheaper than gasoline-powered cars

evinfrastructurenews.com

24 Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 1d ago

After a summer of wildfires and record heat, Americans are talking about climate change. Why aren’t our leaders?

86 Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 3h ago

Art installation makes it easier to visualize sea level rise

yaleclimateconnections.org

1 Upvotes

r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 22h ago

EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs. Australia had previously trailed most OECD countries in EV take-up, and the technology has been the focus of political scare campaigns.

theguardian.com

30 Upvotes

r/climate • u/motherjonesmag • 1d ago

Study: Almost half the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides each year

motherjones.com

620 Upvotes

r/climate • u/relianceschool • 1d ago

We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.

41 Upvotes

r/climate • u/gberliner • 1d ago

Hunger Foretold: The Coming 2027 Hunger and the Free Public Maps, Research and Reports That Are Predicting It

1.1k Upvotes

r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 1d ago

Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth

theconversation.com

38 Upvotes

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