NTT, Japanese telecom giant, planning $9.3 billion investment in green energy, transmission assets.
NTT will enter the renewable energy market and invest more than 1 trillion yen ($9.3 billion) by 2030 to set up its own transmission network, Nikkei learned on Monday.
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Fitch Solutions: Global installed solar capacity will climb 125% in next 10 years.
Solar energy capacity addition is set to expand 125 per cent globally over the next decade as countries switch from fossil fuels to greener alternatives, according to a study by Fitch Solutions.
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Cooking up a solution to Uganda’s deforestation crisis with mud stoves.
Badru Kyewalyanga’s home-produced cooking devices use less wood and mean villagers are breathing cleaner air.
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Shooting of Zimbabwe workers by Chinese mine owner shows 'systemic' abuse, watchdog says.
Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)The shooting of two Zimbabwean workers by a Chinese boss shows the "systematic and widespread" abuse that locals face in Chinese mining operations, says the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Society (ZELA).
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Getting closer to a much better count of Africa’s lions.
African lions are one of the world’s favourite animals. But their numbers have been shrinking over the past century, especially over the past 30 years.
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Russian mining giant admits pumping wastewater into Arctic tundra.
Norilsk Nickel suspends workers at metals plant who dumped the water in ‘flagrant violation of operating rules’
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How do you deal with 9m tonnes of suffocating seaweed?
Across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, scientists are developing alternative sustainable solutions to the golden tide of Sargassum
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Εντυπωσιακή συμμετοχή αιολικών στο διαγωνισμό της 27ης Ιουλίου – Νέοι διαγωνισμοί ΑΠΕ στο τέλος του χρόνου με αύξηση της ισχύος.
Δικαιώνονται, ως φαίνεται, όσα στελέχη του ΥΠΕΝ και της αγοράς επέμεναν να διεξαχθούν οι δύο διαγωνισμοί ΑΠΕ (ξεχωριστοί για αιολικά και φωτοβολταϊκά) το καλοκαίρι και να μην αναβληθούν λόγω πανδημίας για το τελευταίο τρίμηνο του έτους.
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Emmanuel Macron pledges €15bn to tackle climate crisis.
Emmanuel Macron has promised an extra €15bn (£13.7bn) for measures to combat the climate crisis over the next two years and a referendum on whether to introduce the cr
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UK should prioritise green projects to kickstart economy, says IMF.
Chief economist tells committee that coronavirus recovery is an opportunity to create jobs and greener planet
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off.
Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as a ‘conservation disaster’
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Exclusive: water firms discharged raw sewage into England's rivers 200,000 times in 2019.
Untreated effluent flowed into waterways for more than 1.5m hours, data shows.
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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 of revenue generated in lieu of a carbon price, finds
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Summer of the cannibal rats! Hungry, aggressive, highly fertile – and coming to our homes.
With restaurants closed and less food discarded on UK streets, rats have had to find new places to feed. Luckily for them, people are eating more in their houses, flats and gardens …
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Southeast Asian nations face a simple choice – lock in costly coal or invest in renewables.
Market design failures and poorly conceived incentives burden consumers with high power prices and unstable supply. Southeast Asia is young.
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Germany’s RWE, E.ON complete asset swap, RWE Renewables now a leading global green energy firm.
The major asset swap between RWE and Eon has completed, with RWE Renewables now taking on Innogy’s operations to make the new company one of the largest renewables players.
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Latest solar auction in India gets record-low price, strong interest from foreign companies.
The Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (SECI) latest auction saw a record low bid of ₹2.36 (~$0.0313)/kWh.
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Petrol sold to Nigeria from Europe 'dirtier' than black market 'bush' fuel.
Samples from illegal refineries in Niger delta found to be of a higher quality than imported petrol in new analysis.
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Democrats to unveil bold new climate plan to phase out emissions by 2050.
Report to outline aim to reduce emissions to 88% of 2010 levels Huge sums for public transport and proposals for green vehicles
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Terrawatch: unearthing snow's 'Fukushima layer'
Chinese glaciologists have found the freeze-thaw process has concentrated discharge from the disaster.
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