Exclusive: Study shows resilience workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, poorly protected as top firms ‘pad their pockets by cutting costs’
Private equity firms are increasingly profiting from…
Study finds ‘direct evidence’ of polar amplification on continent as scientists warn of implications of ice loss
Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and…
Countries forced to choose between climate resilience, fighting poverty and paying debts, says Ban Ki-moon
The flow of climate adaptation finance to Africa must increase up to tenfold by 2035 to…
Torrential rain blocks roads, causes power cuts and severs water supplies
Four days of cataclysmic rain have lashed the central Greek region of Thessaly, triggering landslides, road and bridge…
Analysis of thousands of species finds some invertebrates and plants also getting smaller, while others are increasing in body size
A global analysis of thousands of animal and plant sizes has found…
Two climate scientists who recently left division tell inquiry former colleagues have been ‘directed to remain quiet’
Two long-term climate scientists have alleged staff at the Australian Antarctic…
Known internationally as one of Africa’s climate champions, President Ruto faces a legal challenge over plans to restart commercial forestry
Ruto has been hailed abroad as one of Africa’s green…
Joseph Atuma had fished in Lake Baringo in Kenya since he was 12 and, despite one or two encounters with hippos and crocodiles, none had ever attacked him until one evening in September 2018, when a…
African leaders have proposed a global carbon tax regime in a joint declaration.
The Nairobi Declaration capped the three-day Africa Climate Summit in Kenya's capital.
The document, released on…
Power Technology:
Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, has obtained project financing of $112m (C$151.34m) from NordLB and Rabobank for the 120MW North Fork solar plant in Oklahoma, US…
Energy Storage News:
A 114MW battery energy storage system (BESS) being developed by EDF Renewables UK has been granted the greenlight for development.
PV Tech:
Saudi Arabian power company ACWA Power has reached financial close for its 200MW Kom Omba solar project in southern Egypt.
ACWA Power aims to begin commercial operations of the project in…
ReNews.biz:
Global wind turbine order intake reached new highs in first half, with 70GW of activity, a 12% increase year-over-year, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie.
A big driver of this…
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RWE has begun construction of a 200MW wind project in Texas.
Montgomery Ranch Wind Farm, in Foard County, will increase the company’s installed wind capacity in the Lone Star State to 4…