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31 08 2020 | 08:04

Britain to get first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste.

Cheshire-based facility will be world’s first to use bacteria-based recycling processes. The UK is to get its first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from electronic waste, which…

31 08 2020 | 08:03

Kenya races to prevent new locust plague threat.

Kenya is in a race to track locusts to prevent a new plague from forming in East Africa and eating all the greenery they find in their wake. Hundreds of billions of locusts swarmed parts of East…

31 08 2020 | 08:01

PV cheapest power generating technology in UK.

New Government figures indicate that large-scale solar will be lowest cost deploy and maintain over the next two decades. New analysis on electricity generation costs published by the department…

31 08 2020 | 07:59

Renewable Energy Remains One of America’s Most Attractive Investment Options.

Investors who know the renewables market best believe its brightest days are still to come, writes Gregory Wetstone. Gregory Wetstone is president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy…

31 08 2020 | 07:57

Weatherwatch: solar farms with added food.

New panels harvest blue and green light for electricity, letting red light through to crops below. With solar farms in the sunny south of England now being economically viable without subsidy there…

31 08 2020 | 07:53

Ocean Rebellion climate action group launches with protest against cruise ship.

Climate activists linked to Extinction Rebellion projected protest messages onto hull of the World vessel in Falmouth, Cornwall. A “sea-faring sister” of climate resistance group Extinction…

31 08 2020 | 07:47

U.S. Voters Increasingly Concerned About Climate Crisis.

The dangers of climate chaos are conspicuous across the country as wildfiresrage in the West where prolonged drought has turned some forests into a tinderbox, the Gulf Coast braces for back-to-back…

31 08 2020 | 07:46

Niger capital flooded as death toll rises to 45.

Several areas of the Niger capital Niamey remained under water on Thursday as the death toll in recent floods that have displaced over 225,000 people rose to 45, authorities said. Around 25,000…

25 08 2020 | 09:25

Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock.

Storebrand says corporate lobbying to undermine climate solutions is ‘unacceptable’. A Nordic hedge fund worth more than $90bn (£68.6bn) has dumped its stocks in some of the world’s biggest oil…

25 08 2020 | 07:55

Canada's Last Intact Ice Shelf the Size of Manhattan Collapses Due to Global Warming.

A 4,000-year-old ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed into the sea, leaving Canada without any fully intact ice shelves, Reuters reported. The Milne Ice Shelf lost more than 40 percent of…

25 08 2020 | 07:45

Ocean energy industry calls for European target of 100MW by 2025.

The new EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy must include a target of 100MW of ocean energy installed in Europe by 2025. This would be enough to power 100,000 European homes a year, and would…

25 08 2020 | 07:44

‘No purpose’ to Coalition’s climate policy after big polluters increase emissions by 1.6m tonnes.

Government under fire after major companies again given green light to lift carbon emissions without penalty. Industry and environment groups have questioned the point of the Coalitiongovernment’s “…

25 08 2020 | 07:42

EU invests €350m in first domestic battery gigafactory.

The European Investment Bank issued a €350 million loan on Thursday (30 July) to a Swedish company that hopes to corner a significant share of the global battery market by building the greenest power…

25 08 2020 | 07:34

EU eyes sustainable fuel quotas to tackle aviation emissions.

The European Union is considering quotas to force airlines to use more sustainable fuels as it seeks to clamp down on the climate impact of aviation, the European Commission said on Wednesday (5…

25 08 2020 | 07:33

Energy transition prompts Peabody to write down value of largest U.S. coal mine by $1.42 billion.

The largest coal mining company in the United States substantially lowered the value of one of its top-producing thermal coal assets based on low expectations for future coal demand. Peabody Energy…

25 08 2020 | 07:26

Oil giants including Exxon set first joint carbon target.

A group of the world’s top oil companies including Saudi Aramco, China’s CNPC and ExxonMobil have for the first time set targets to cut their combined greenhouse gas emissions as a proportion of…

23 08 2020 | 07:50

National Energy & Climate Plans: 3 key elements for effective delivery.

Too lazy to read 26 National Energy & Climate Plans? No problem! WindEurope has assessed them, focusing on three crucial dimensions for the expansion of wind energy: auction schedules,…

23 08 2020 | 07:39

Global Warming Threatens Maine Puffin Colony.

When Europeans first arrived in North America, Atlantic puffins were common on islands in the Gulf of Maine. But hunters killed many of the birds for food or for feathers to adorn ladies' hats. By…

23 08 2020 | 07:38

EPA Expected to Allow More Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Industry.

In the coming days, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to use its power to roll back yet another Obama-era environmental protection meant to curb air pollution and slow the …

23 08 2020 | 07:33

Sharks Are Polluted With Plastic, New Study Shows.

There are trillions of microplastics in the ocean — they bob on the surface, float through the water column, and accumulate in clusters on the seafloor. Withplastic being so ubiquitous, it's…