Covid-19 lockdown will have 'negligible' impact on climate crisis – study.
Drop in emissions was a blip, say scientists, and a green recovery is vital to halt global heating.
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Floating wind farms – the power source of the future.
Giant turbines operating from anchored rafts can harness strong offshore winds. Offshore wind farm potential is enormous. They are no longer limited to shallow water but can operate from anchored rafts - and the size and output of the turbines keeps increasing.
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India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields.
Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population.
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Oil spill off Mauritius is visible from space.
The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe after a bulk carrier struck a coral reef off its coast in late July, an accident that has led to a large o
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Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level rise.
Exclusive: Taneti Maamau says Kiribati will seek support from China and other allies to elevate islands from the sea, partly through dredging.
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Kenya: Weather Alerts At Risk As Kenya's Radio Stations Struggle Amid Virus Downturn
As advertising disappears amid the coronavirus downturn, radio stations helping farmers adapt to climate shifts could disappear
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Secretary-General's message on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on more than 476 million indigenous people around the world. Throughout history, indigenous peoples have been decimated by diseases brought from elsewhere, to which they had no immunity.
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Amazon fires rage in early August as fears of mass blazes mount.
HUMAITA, Brazil (Reuters) - Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have surged so far in August, government data on Friday showed, outstripping the same period of 2019 and renewing concerns about the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, which is a critical bulwark against climate change.
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Έρχονται μεγάλα deals για τη ΔΕΗ στην πράσινη ενέργεια - Εξετάζονται έργα συνολικής δυναμικότητας 6,2GW.
Σε προνομιακό συνομιλητή μεγάλων εγχώριων και διεθνών ομίλων -και μάλιστα με τη στήριξη του εγχώριου τραπεζικού συστήματος- μετεξελίσσεται η ΔΕΗ Ανανεώσιμες, επιδιώκοντας ένα μεγάλο restart στον τομέα της πράσινης ανάπτυξης, με στόχο την εξέταση συνολικών έργων δυναμικότητας 6,2 GW, από
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Arctic Lows.
The 2020 melting season still has at least another month to gnaw away at Arctic sea ice, but it has already consumed a lot. In July, the ice cover spanning the Arctic Ocean reached a record-low extent for this time of year.
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75 δέντρα για τα 75 χρόνια του ΟΗΕ.
Το 2020 συμπίπτει με το έτος εορτασμού των 75 ετών από την ίδρυση του Οργανισμού Ηνωμένων Εθνών (Ο.Η.Ε.
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Energy and the Military: Leading by Example
PITTSBURGH: As the world demands more energy, nations face the often-competing pressures to increase energy access and affordability, protect the environment, and assure energy security.
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Coronavirus: Disposable face masks creating new plastic pollution crisis, experts warn.
UK volunteers have seen a "massive" rise in the amount of single use masks discarded on beaches, high streets, canals and rivers. Single use personal protective equipment (PPE) is significantly adding to the already serious plastic pollution crisis, experts have warned.
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Calls for Woodside to pay $200m to clean up moribund Timor Sea oil site it ran until 2016.
Review recommends ‘trailing liability’, where owners remain liable for decommissioning sites after selling them.
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Thousands of baby turtles released into sea off Bali.
The Olive Ridley turtles are part of conservationists’ attempts to boost the population and promote environmental protection.
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Is this the end for ‘king coal’ in Britain?
As the black stuff burnt in the UK plummets to a level not seen since the early steam age, we trace its long, deep history and the problems left in its wake.
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New FOI ruling orders disclosure of CSIRO internal documents on its response to Murray-Darling criticisms.
The information commissioner says release of material previously redacted by the scientific agency is a matter of public interest.
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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 repo
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Ocean Warming Threatens Coral Reefs and Soon Could Make It Harder to Restore Them.
Anyone who's tending a garden right now knows what extreme heat can do to plants. Heat is also a concern for an important form of underwater gardening: growing corals and "outplanting," or transplanting them to restore damaged reefs.
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Earth Is Warning Us We Must Change. Will We Listen?
Our present course puts humans on track to be among the species that expire in Earth's ongoing sixth mass extinction. In my conversations with thoughtful people, I am finding increasing acceptance of this horrific premise.
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