Aruna Chandrasekhar

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Cropped | US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém

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DeBriefed 27 June 2025: Heat domes; Bonn comes to a close; Gender clash in climate talks - Carbon Brief This week, Carbon Brief explores gender-related language disputes at Bonn

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief explores gender-related language disputes at Bonn.

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Delegates huddle during informal consultations on the GGA. Credit: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth

NEW – Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

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About 15 to 20 workers at a labour colony near the Indira Priyadarshini Hydroelectric project site at Khaniyara near Dharamshala were feared to have been swept away after a surge in the water level of the Manuni river.

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A set of 10 Key Messages from the World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report The 10 key messages are as follows: In 2024, Asia's average temperature was about 1.04 °C above the 1991-2020 average, ranking as the warmest or second warmest year on record, depending on the dataset. Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, with the 1991-2024 trend almost double that of 1961-1990. Reduced winter snowfall and extreme summer heat accelerated glacier mass loss in the central Himalayas and Tian Shan. Sea-surface temperatures were the highest on record, and Asia's sea-surface decadal warming rate is currently nearly double the global average. Sea-level rise on the Pacific and Indian Ocean sides of the continent exceeded the global average, heightening risks for low-lying coastal areas. Prolonged heatwaves affected much of Asia, and marine heatwave coverage hit a record high. Tropical Cyclone Yagi, the strongest storm of the year, caused widespread damage and casualties across Viet Nam, the Philippines, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar and China. Record-breaking floods in Central Asia - the worst in over 70 vears - and extreme rainfall in the United Arab Emirates, where 259.5 mm fell in 24 hours, marked some of the most severe precipitation-related events since records began in 1949. By September, drought in China affected 4.76 million people, damaged 335 200 ha of crops, and led to an estimated 2.89 billion yuan in direct losses. In late September, record-breaking rainfall in Nepal triggered severe floods, killing at least 246 people. Damages exceeded 12.85 billion Nepalese rupees, but coordinated anticipatory action enabled life-saving support to over 130 000 people, reducing health risks and casualties.

The World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report is out

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"In India’s financial capital – where 73% of all offices & commercial establishments are within 500m of a flood hotspot & 69% of all employees experience “hindered access” [..] trying to get to or leave work – forecasting the monsoon is fraught, essential & getting trickier with climate change."

Life at 50°C Documentary series exploring one of the most deadly results of the climate crisis: extreme heat. It shows the far reaching consequences and the struggle to adapt and survive.

Recommended watch: BBC World Service’s Life at 50C had a new documentary following Indigenous Queenslander Adrian Burragubba’s “battle against Adani[‘s]” coal mine in Australia’s Galilee Basin.

If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands.

Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard.

But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽

Monsoon forecaster Dr Sushma Nair. Credit: Aruna Chandrasekhar for Carbon Brief

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief visits Mumbai’s official monsoon monitoring centre and “war room” to examine how the city is responding to its earliest downpour on record.

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DeBriefed | Three years to ‘keep 1.5C alive’; Bonn talks turn ‘bitter’; Inside Mumbai’s monsoon ‘war room’

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Cropped | High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’

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UK nuclear capacity, 1955-2100, gigawatts. Individual plants are shown separately. Source: World Nuclear Association and Carbon Brief analysis.

NEW – Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades

Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org‬. Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam. Visuals by @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org‬.

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China says it will remove all tariffs on African exports to boost trade China will negotiate and sign a new economic pact with Africa that will get rid of all tariffs on the 53 African states it has diplomatic ties with, it said, a move that could benefit middle-income nations.

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Glaciologists, local communities mourn loss of Nepal’s Yala glacier | Latest News India - Hindustan Times Lemthang glacier, in Bhutan, which is retreating was devastated by a glacial lake outburst-triggered flood in 2015.

The first Nepalese glacier to be declared "dead" ☹️

Dark days coming for the subcontinent.

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I believed a counter-strike was likely, but this is a de-escalatory signal. 'Adviser to the PM Rana Sanaullah has said that the...army chief...committed to the world that Pakistan will not take any “irresponsible action” if India does not further escalate' www.dawn.com/live/pakista...

Keep Kashmir in your thoughts especially the areas near the ceasefire line. They are witnessing a nightmare.

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Cropped | Beef vs the Amazon; BRICS vs tariffs; Ag alphabet

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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family

“If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”

How India – and Southasia – fails to count and deal with heat deaths Reporting for this story was supported by the Nobert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) as part of the Centre for Investigative Jou

Along with that CNN piece, worth reading @himalmag.bsky.social’s on heat death undercounting in the subcontinent and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social’s estimates of what the real toll could actually be.

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Today’s South Asia climate news roundup @carbonbrief.org was a real scorcher.

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

I'm back to work today after several days of literal fever dream only to find myself in the metaphorical variety 🫠

Anyway, we asked a bunch of experts what Trump tariffs might mean for global energy flows and climate action

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UPDATE – Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss? | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss? | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social

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Cropped | Trump and timber; Food fights; Peru’s peatlands

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Whether in France, Germany, the UK or US, this is 2024 vs 2025 in a nutshell :(

Today at 3pm (GMT), Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar on the key outcomes of the resumed COP16 biodiversity talks 🎙️

Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely

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Summer arrives early and puts India’s staple wheat crop at risk Key wheat-growing regions could see temperatures rise 6C above average

In other news, it is 1st of March and India is already under a heatwave, threatening the wheat crops once again.

An extremely dry winter season is to be blamed, according to IMD, which led to heatwave advisories in the western regions in February.

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DeBriefed 28 February 2025: COP16 lands finance deal; More than half of nations skip key nature pledge; UK eyes cost-saving emissions plan - Carbon Brief Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate...

DeBriefed | COP16 lands finance deal; More than half of nations skip key nature pledge; UK eyes cost-saving emissions plan

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