Latest Climate News
The Latest Climate News podcast provides a snapshot of the latest climate news stories from around the world every day. From the latest climate stats to emerging climate technology the Latest Climate News podcast will keep you informed about the most recent news relating to the world and climate. The Latest Climate News podcast utilises real-time news articles and AI to generated our daily podcasts.
Episodes

Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
The Top Climate News for Friday 26 July 2024:
- Power is plentiful in the land of ice and fire
- Why Paris Olympics will be the most climate friendly in history
- Data centres and climate crisis
- Citing climate change, a federal court in Brazil halts rainforest highway paving
- £7.7 million bounty offered in hunt for members of North Korea-backed hacking group
- UN head admonishes wealthy countries for expanding fossil fuel production
- UK climate duo who threw soup at Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' found guilty of criminal damage
- Canada's premiers forced to confront escalating climate change-related disasters
- Energy bills to fall within five years, Keir Starmer pledges as Britain's economy goes green
- India’s climate tightrope: Green growth for Viksit Bharat
- GB Energy: The burning question facing ministers on UK-owned clean power
- The Trans Mountain contradiction: how can Canada lead on climate while doubling down on oil?
- Frankfurt airport cancels 140 flights as climate activists block runway
- Global Study Reveals a Powerful Hidden Way Trees Are Fighting Climate Change
- UK households have BBC TV Licence bill slashed to £0 after thousands cancel
- Water temperatures near UK last year were hottest on record, say scientists

Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
The Top Climate News for Thursday 25 July 2024:
- Cut taxes to fuel flagging electric car sales and hit climate goals says SMMT
- Why Economic Survey argues for climate adaptation, not mitigation
- Car production down 7.6% in first half of year as manufacturers switch to EVs
- Asset sales boost Bord na Móna profits as revenue falls
- Climate change is ending the Sun Belt boom
- Earth's Hottest Day in 84 Years: A Climate Crisis
- Floods and climate change blamed for surge in dengue in the Emirates as WHO warns of global spike
- Climate Activists Disrupt European Airports in Bold Protest
- Climate activists glued to runway halt flights at German airport, other protests foiled
- Did July 22 break all previous global heat records? EU’s climate monitor says…
- BMW bets big on electric vehicles, to expand market
- ‘High quality, low price and dizzying variety’: how the Chinese switched to electric cars
- Business Council of Australia fears 'climate trigger' in Labor's new nature laws could stall clean energy projects
- Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN
- It’s easy to blame petrostates - but self-proclaimed ‘climate leaders’ like the US and UK are driving the crisis
- Climate activists block road to Zurich Airport
- ‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?
- Climate group disrupts traffic at Cologne airport and says more to come
- Wealthy countries lead in new oil and gas expansion, threatening 12bn tonnes of emissions
- India's Budget Push for Green Transition and Self-Reliance in Critical Minerals
- Havana’s roads change as Cubans adopt electric bikes and vehicles
- Vietnam allows big companies to buy clean energy directly to meet their climate targets
- ‘The prosecutor against the convicted felon - what a contest!’ Letters to the editor for July 24
- Drivers aged 35 to 44 who have a petrol or diesel car 'warned'
- Hydrogen-Powered Air Taxi Breaks Record With Longest Flight Without Emissions
- Monday is the hottest day recorded on Earth, beating Sunday's record, European climate agency says

Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
The Top Climate News for Wednesday 24 July 2024:
- U.S. Defense Secretary Reaffirms Support for Ukraine Amid Changing Political Climate
- G20 Finance Leaders Optimistic on Global Soft Landing Amidst Conflicts
- Markets are driving momentum for international sustainability reporting, says standards board chair
- European climate agency: Last Sunday was the hottest day on Earth in all recorded history
- Climate change imperils drought-stricken Morocco’s cereal farmers and its food supply
- The Biden administration made progress on climate change. Experts say Kamala Harris needs to convince climate voters.
- Joe Biden exits 2024 race: What’s his legacy on climate change?
- Federal government grants millions to SC projects to combat climate change
- With Focus on Rooftop Solar & Energy Security, Budget 2024 Sets India on Path to A Sustainable Economy
- Climate change will lead to massive tropical plant losses
- Union Budget 2024: A confidence booster, but startups want creases ironed out in green energy policies
- SpaceX wins $113 million contract to launch advanced NOAA climate satellite
- Could the stock market’s next black swan be climate change?
- July 21 hottest day ever recorded globally: EU climate monitor
- Green Groups endorse Kamala Harris, say she'll 'raise climate ambition'
- Budget 2024: For Developed India by 2047, Sitharaman banks on renewable & nuclear energy
- July 21 was world's hottest day ever recorded and it was...
- Tesla reports earnings postmarket. Here's what Wall Street has to say
- Critical minerals push in Budget 2024: Customs duty exemption, auction of offshore minerals & more
- Union Budget 2024: Who gained the most? Who lost out?
- Plaintiffs drop 5 climate cases at Europe's human rights court
- Waves of potential in ocean energy
- The Tories wrecked the UK’s relationship with Africa. Now Labour must revive it
- Why BC's premier is dialling down his usual attacks on Trump
- ‘Wood Vaulting’ Explained: The Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
- We’re at a make-or-break moment for US climate goals
- Biden Administration Targets Industrial Gases in New Climate Strategy
- Union Budget 2024: Fresh push for nuclear energy as government to partner with private sector for R&D
- Diesel and petrol car owners could pay to bring down costs of electric vehicles
- Winter cold spell helped drive record demand for power and spike in electricity prices across national market
- GM slows its EV plans again even as sales grow
- Energy security priority in Budget 2024, outlay hiked for solar, nuclear & indigenous thermal power
- Budget 2024: Sitharaman pushes for climate change & self-reliance, falls short on dairy sector's demands
- Vancouver continues to fall short of climate goal for 2030
- Britain's climate change plan challenged in landmark court case
- Union Budget 2024 may prove to be the supercharger that India’s EV sector and startups need
- Toronto is vulnerable to climate-fuelled floods. What will make it more resilient?
- General Motors' Profits Surge Amid Gas-powered Truck Demand
- South Africa Reaffirms Commitment to Climate Action with BASIC Partners

Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
Tuesday Jul 23, 2024
The Top Climate News for Tuesday 23 July 2024:
- What the upcoming Budget needs to address
- Climate Change: Need to move away from ‘excessive preoccupation’ with meeting global temperature target, says Economic Survey
- Under Biden, a booming U.S. economy gets stung by inflation
- ’FDI from China can help India increase value addition, exports’
- Globe Climate: Suspense builds around water quality in the Seine
- Biden gives states billions of dollars for EV chargers, heat pumps, and other green tech
- Adopting Western practices to tackle climate change can be adverse for India - Economic Survey
- Nine B.C. cleantech firms to share $7.6M in grants
- Labour told to 'take on net zero nimbys' to help lower bills
- What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for the Climate
- India's energy demand to grow 2-2.5 times by 2047, coal to dominate, says Economic Survey 2023-24
- Economic Survey shows what India gets right - and developed nations get wrong - about climate change
- Extreme weather and climate skepticism underline urgent need for more policy action
- Half of Kew Gardens' trees at risk of death as climate warms, study warns
- EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution
- EU's Borrell to discuss security, climate policy with Vietnam next week
- Legumes - Swiss farmers’ secret weapon against climate change
- Sick leaves: tea growers’ climate misery leads to jump in UK prices

Monday Jul 22, 2024
Monday Jul 22, 2024
The Top Climate News for Monday 22 July 2024:
- This budget should bring agricultural research into focus
- Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain
- Solar industry sees first projects put on ice as nuclear proposal sows doubt among investors
- If Earth’s ecosystem was a company, Climate Ltd would have a problem
- Govt to focus on urban forests in its 100-day agenda
- AM Green plans $1 billion foray into biofuels
- Olympic champion visits football club during climate action bike ride to Paris
- Smart meter giant Utilita eyes capital-raise to fund net zero ambition
- Closing only pool in Ontario town points to growing climate challenge
- More intense and frequent rains linked to climate change
- Climate-related extreme weather puts oil and gas assets, production at risk
- Climate change is forcing sports to ‘adapt’-Skiers drink, sailors dodge trash
- Flooding and more, plus other letters for July 21: ‘Isn’t the term climate change too benign? I think global weather chaos is what we actually experience – and fear’
- Hyundai, Kia set to achieve USD 5.7 billion operating profit in Q2

Sunday Jul 21, 2024
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
The Top Climate News for Sunday 21 July 2024:
- India has ramped up its wind and solar energy. It now needs to expand places to store it
- ‘Destiny in our hands’: the Indigenous Australians joining the renewable energy transition
- Holistic climate resilience strategies will be key to empowering people
- In South Africa, farmers reap harvest of indigenous crops as they weather climate change
- Angry Residents Protest Power Cuts Amid Heatwave in Southern Russia
- Clean Energy Play: Is Brookfield Renewable a Good Stock for a TFSA?
- Will burying biomass underground curb climate change?
- ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?
- Pakistan Seeks Sustainable Financial Solutions Amid New IMF Deal
- Cop29 host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund

Saturday Jul 20, 2024
Saturday Jul 20, 2024
The Top Climate News for Saturday 20 July 2024:
- Ottawa on track to slap big tariffs on Chinese-made EVs and cut eligibility for subsidies: Volpe
- UN Warns Geoengineering To Combat Climate Change Might Make More Problems Than Solutions
- World polycrisis hangs on US politics
- Climate literacy push is changing East Devon for the better
- Planting trees and fighting wildfires: what is the American Climate Corps?
- Humans caused climate change. Amid the suffering, now they must solve it
- Team discovers a missing piece in climate models
- The Science Museum should not bow to climate change activists: take the oil money and be grateful to get it
- 5 things to know for July 19: Republican convention, Cyber outages, Ukraine aid, Olympics security, Climate protests
- Ontario startup looks to save classic cars in the electric era
- Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall clash over plan to make electric vehicles pay congestion charge
- Solar stocks tumble as clean energy investors fear a Trump win
- Some climate groups urge Biden to stand down, fearing a Trump win
- Changed climate seen as extra threat to cellphone service
- From ‘non-Artic’ to ‘near-Arctic’: Growing China Factor in the India-Russia Far East cooperation
- Windows outage live: Virgin Australia and Melbourne airport confirm operations affected; Crowdstrike says ‘content deployment’ caused issue
- US Ambassador's Visit to Adani's Mega Renewable Energy Project Highlights India-US Energy Partnership

Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
The Top Climate News for Friday 19 July 2024:
- Better Buy: Cameco Stock or Brookfield Renewable Stock?
- Indigenous-led hydrogen project in B.C. seeks to supply transportation sector with decarbonization solutions
- Green agendas clash in Nevada as company grows rare plant to help it survive effects of a mine
- ‘Super nerd’ Miliband warns climate crisis is biggest threat to rural Britain
- Govt working to better predict weather and climate events, control rains
- Humanity has just five years to prevent irreversible climate damage, warns Ryan
- British climate protesters who plotted highway shutdown given record harsh prison sentences
- Ford to produce F-Series pickup trucks, not electric vehicles, at Oakville plant
- ‘Lost’ five years make farming’s net zero ambition difficult to hit, NFU warns
- US oil company ran 1977 article predicting climate crisis could cause starvation
- Union Budget 2024 Expectations Live Updates: Middle Class Hopes For Tax Cuts, More Exemptions
- Morgan Stanley says renewable energy stock is 'underappreciated' as powering AI play
- UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : Economy MCQs on Graphite production, NITI Aayog’s SDG India Index and more (Week 67)
- Intensive work needed to avoid 'unjust' transition at Grangemouth oil refinery, report warns
- Full charge: How FLO aims to conquer the EV charging market
- SSE sees 60% jump in renewable energy generation in early summer
- ‘Twisters’ Is a Fantasy Version of What Climate Collapse Looks Like - The New York Times
- EU's von der Leyen vows defence push, climate continuity in bid for second term
- Britain's new government must act fast to meet 2030 climate goal, advisers say
- Stunning 3D Visualization of Nuclear Fusion Takes You Inside a Tokamak
- Labour must ramp up renewable energy to meet 2030 climate vows, says watchdog
- New Zealand will fail to meet 2050 net zero targets, data shows, after climate policies scrapped

Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
The Top Climate News for Thursday 18 July 2024:
- Undo last government's climate policy rollbacks to lower people's bills, top advisers say
- California first state to get federal funds for hydrogen energy hub to help replace fossil fuels
- Climate crisis - clearly unattainable targets
- Labour's Urgent Climate Challenge: Meeting 2030 Emission Targets
- Government urged to deliver net zero action to lower bills and help communities
- Climate conference in November: Azerbaijan asks countries to come prepared with stronger strategies
- Drayage fleets need education to learn benefits of electrification
- Hyderabad Startup Launches 'Tabletop Nuclear Reactor' Using Cold Fusion to Generate Clean Energy
- Climate Change Is Messing With More Than Just Glaciers
- More Than 700,000 People Getting $150 Million in Energy Rebates
- Small, lean and lightweight: What is Suzuki's ‘energy minimization’ EV plan?
- BMW Is Testing In-Wheel Motors That Could Give Sports Cars A Future Beyond Gas Engines
- AI and climate change make cooling hot for investors. Plus, the ‘Trump trade’ and the rush into small caps
- The “greenhouse effect”: How an oft-touted climate solution threatens agricultural workers
- Climate change is literally making our days longer
- Why buying an EV in B.C. might soon cost you much more
- Why heavy discounts on leases could mean losses for automakers
- Mercedes-Benz’s 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks
- From green energy to rivers, environment at heart of nine plans in king’s speech
- Climate change damage is harming companies’ profits, KPMG survey shows
- Octopus Energy issues '40 per cent off' message to customers
- Violent language creates a violent political climate
- At Republican National Convention, climate change at bottom of pile
- Letters to the editor, July 17: ‘Stop predicting … that Donald Trump will return to the White House’
- Budget 2024 must further India's clean energy goals. Climate change is an economic problem
- UN climate talks leader says financial help for poor nations is urgent goal of negotiations
- Londoners should be charged for paving gardens, says climate resilience report

Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
The Top Climate News for Wednesday 17 July 2024:
- Twisters doesn’t mention climate change to avoid feeling preachy
- Puerto Rico files $1 billion suit against fossil fuel companies
- Ex-Tory MP sets up investment bank to help new markets ‘transforming the world’
- Former Olympic champion cycling to Paris for climate change awareness
- Climate Change Is Making Days Longer And Could Soon Exceed The Moon’s Influence
- Malfunction shuts one of four units at Russian nuclear power plant
- US climate advocates fear JD Vance’s VP nomination is ‘a dangerous step backward’
- Estonia's Climate Minister Kristen Michal tasked with forming new government
- New inflation warning: Get used to high interest rates, IMF says
- Death of electric vehicle sales is overstated, says BMO economist
- Buses, trains and bicycle paths: Labour’s mission to decarbonise UK transport
- Poll: Should Ireland reward 'climate-friendly' tourists?
- Edison, Framatome and Milan university team up on civil nuclear energy
- Climate change is making days longer, scientists discover
- Climate change 'results in longer days': Swiss research
- A Swiss label wants to make data centres greener
- Micheál Martin travels to Kenya and Ethiopia this week with focus on climate change and conflict
- US startup claims lab-made, climate-friendly butter tastes ‘like real thing’
- Will heat pumps cause blackouts?