Labour’s first stage of government resembles a vast forensic excavation. As it works through the Conservatives’ midden of horrors, it discovers an ever greater legacy of underinvestment, neglect and…
The UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years will not be allowed to go ahead after a ruling in the high court.
On Friday morning, Justice Holgate ruled that plans to build the facility in Whitehaven…
Part of what’s driving Mark Watson’s pitch for mayor is his opposition to a project he says is the talk of the town and the “biggest issue” in his coastal home’s history.
Parliament has paid tribute to Rebecca Cheptegei, a long-distance athlete and Uganda People’s Defence Force Sergeant who died after suffering severe burns after an arson attack by her lover on 01…
Chevening is the UK government’s flagship scholarship programme that offers a fully funded one-year master’s degree in any field at any of the UK’s top universities and is aimed at developing global…
A submerged rubbish bin on the Gold Coast after flash floods in 2023. ‘Cop31 could be a defining moment in our nation’s history – a turning point where Australia can embrace its climate potential and…
Last week, one south-west Louisiana city in particular was girding itself for Hurricane Francine’s blow: Lake Charles, located about four hours west of New Orleans and two hours east of Houston.
In…
UNOPS and the Ministry of Health have formalized a $13.5 million partnership financed by the World Bank for the procurement and installation of oxygen plants in hospitals throughout Ethiopia. This…
Big tech has made some big claims about greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But as the rise of artificial intelligence creates ever bigger energy demands, it’s getting hard for the industry to…
A new report points toward subsidies for dirty industries as an obstacle for clean climate finance. Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP
More than $650bn (£494bn) a year in public subsidies goes to…
Among the concerns listed by the 2,000 farmers who converged on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra last week was the protection of prime agricultural land from renewable energy developments.
Private jets are up to 14 times more polluting, for each passenger, than commercial planes according to Transport & Environment. Photograph: Attila Bodzsoni/Alamy
Fair taxes on superyachts and…
Fossil fuel companies pumped at least $5.6bn (£4.2bn) of sponsorship money into motorsports, football, golf and even snow sports in an effort to “buy social licence to operate”, according to a…
Workers at Wrocław zoo, close to the Oder River, build flood reinforcements on Wednesday. Photograph: Maciej Kulczyński/EPA
Soldiers, emergency workers and volunteers battled through the night to…
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 19 September 2024 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), COP29 Presidency and Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan announced today that the first Energy…
Large machinery piles and stores electrical coal just unloaded from a cargo ship at the coal terminal in Lianyungang Port, China, on May 24, 2024. (Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Electric cars now outnumber petrol cars in Norway for the first time, an industry organisation has said, a world first that puts the country on track towards taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road…
For more than 20 years, Lidieth Gomez’s days have been punctuated by the hum of crop-spraying planes. At dawn and dusk, the skies over Matina, capital of Limón province on Costa Rica’s Caribbean…
A national “butterfly emergency” has been declared by Butterfly Conservation after the lowest Big Butterfly Count since records began.
An average of just seven butterflies per 15-minute count were…
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