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09 07 2020 | 11:31

Over 5,600 fossil fuel companies have taken at least $3bn in US Covid-19 aid.

Businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, an analysis by Documented and the Guardian finds. More than 5,600 companies in the fossil fuel industry have taken a minimum of $3bn…

09 07 2020 | 11:16

Global temperatures likely to hit at least 1C warming for next five years.

Experts say new climate data shows how close world already is to breaching 1.5C Paris agreement pledge. There is a one-in-five chance annual global temperatures will be at least 1.5C warmer than in…

08 07 2020 | 08:52

Judge suspends Dakota Access pipeline over environmental concerns.

  US district judge sides with Standing Rock Sioux tribe More extensive environmental review is required – judge A federal judge has sided with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and ordered the …

08 07 2020 | 08:27

'Important Victory' for Historic Black Community Over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

A historic African American community in Virginia has dealt another blow to the embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

08 07 2020 | 08:15

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled Following Years of Legal Challenges.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), which would have carried fracked natural gas through 600 miles of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, will never be completed.

08 07 2020 | 08:09

Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN.

Ongoing destruction of nature will result in stream of animal diseases jumping to humans, says report. The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the…

08 07 2020 | 08:06

Germany Approves Coal Phaseout by 2038.

The Bundestag and Bundesrat — Germany's lower and upper houses of parliament — passed legislation on Friday that would phase out coal use in the country in less than two decades as part of a road map…

08 07 2020 | 08:02

BP agrees to sell its petrochemicals business to INEOS.

BP has announced it has sold its global petrochemicals business to INEOS as part of its strategy to reinvent the company.  Selling its global petrochemicals business to INEOS will help bp strengthen…

08 07 2020 | 08:02

Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts.

Trailblazing system would help to stabilise the energy grid’s electrical frequency. A giant flywheel in north-east Scotland could soon help to prevent blackouts across Britain by mimicking the…

07 07 2020 | 10:49

Bubonic Plague is back!

Bubonic Plague Found in a Herder in Inner Mongolia, China Says A city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages. A…

07 07 2020 | 08:27

Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study.

Frequency of heatwaves and cumulative intensity has risen through the decades, research finds. Heatwaves have increased in both length and frequency in nearly every part of the world since the 1950s…

07 07 2020 | 08:14

Algae turns Italian Alps pink, prompting concerns over melting.

Pink snow observed on parts of the Presena glacier believed to be caused by plant that makes the ice darker, causing it to melt faster. Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious…

07 07 2020 | 07:52

Dominion Sells Gas Business and Cancels Atlantic Coast Pipeline, in Clean Energy Pivot.

Dominion and Duke Energy will walk away from controversial pipeline project as U.S. utilities grapple with future role of natural gas. U.S. utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most…

07 07 2020 | 07:41

The Climate Emergency Won’t Wait for the Press to Play Catch-Up Again.

To hear many journalists tell it, the spring of 2020 has brought a series of extraordinary revelations. Look at what the nation has learned: That our health-care system was not remotely up to the…

06 07 2020 | 10:59

UK government development bank to end fossil fuel financing.

CDC Group’s climate strategy will stop support for most polluting projects in developing countries. The UK government’s overseas development bank has bowed to calls to end fossil fuel financing…

06 07 2020 | 10:15

Enel to launch hydrogen business as part of green drive.

MILAN (Reuters) - Europe’s biggest utility Enel is set to launch a green hydrogen business next year to speed up its plans to become a carbon-free power producer by 2050. The group is targeting…

06 07 2020 | 10:11

Fossils hit ‘turning point’ as Shell follows bp in declaring stranded assets.

The coronavirus pandemic may have produced a tipping point in the transition off fossil fuels, with two colossal fossils declaring in the last two weeks that they will downgrade the value of their…

05 07 2020 | 07:13

60% of fish species could be unable to survive in current areas by 2100 – study.

Warming water temperatures lower water oxygen levels, putting embryos and pregnant fish at risk, researchers say Sixty per cent of studied fish species will be unable to survive in their current…

05 07 2020 | 06:57

Revealed: legislators’ pro-pipeline letters ghostwritten by fossil fuel company.

Letters by key legislators including North Dakota’s governor written by officials of MDU Resources, a subsidiary of WBI Energy. This March, North Dakota’s governor, Doug Burgum, sent a letter to the…

04 07 2020 | 10:56

Australia: Carbon capture and storage is a poor investment.

More money and emissions spent on projects than in storing carbon Australia is pondering carbon capture and storage despite poor outcomes from the only two projects operating world-wide and a lack…