Daisy Dunne

2 weeks ago | interactive.carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne |Joe Goodman |Kerry Cleaver

On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, to get close, the boat must navigate car-sized chunks of ice that have recently calved off the glacier.

2 weeks ago | interactive.carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne |Joe Goodman |Kerry Cleaver

In the Arctic Ocean, around 400 miles from the north pole, lies the island of Svalbard. Named after the Viking word for “cold edge”, the island lay largely undisturbed before it was used as a base for whaling in the 17th and 18th centuries and transformed into a coal-mining hub in the 20th century. Today, the capital, Longyearbyen, is a tourist destination. Further north, an international climate research station has been set up in the former mining town of Ny-Ålesund.

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Daisy Dunne |Joe Goodman |Kerry Cleaver

On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, to get close, the boat must navigate car-sized chunks of ice that have recently calved off the glacier.

3 weeks ago | carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne

The UK government’s “high-risk” research funding agency last week announced that it will invest £57m ($76m) in a new solar geoengineering research programme. “Solar geoengineering” refers to methods that aim to address some of the impacts of a warming climate by reflecting away more sunlight from the Earth. The programme, spearheaded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), will fund 21 projects globally.

1 month ago | carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne

International policyAustralia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature Australia is heading to the polls for a general election on 3 May. The ruling centre-left Labor party has for the past three years attempted to fix Australia’s “climate-laggard” reputation by setting a legal net-zero target and approving a record number of renewable energy projects.