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There are two distinctive types of electric buses making their way along Nanjing Xi Lu, one of Shanghai's busiest roads.
The first is a fleet of blue trolleybuses that serve bus route number 20,…
In a lab in Manchester, volunteers are donning masks to breathe in lungfuls of polluted air.
They're being exposed to different kinds of fumes, from diesel to cleaning products, in a bid to…
t's a crisp winter morning in the Finnish coastal city of Oulu, the fourth most northerly city in the world, just 100km (60 miles) south of the Arctic Circle. Last night there was a snowstorm and…
The founder of an electric truck start-up that was popular in the US has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Trevor Milton, who led Nikola Corporation, was convicted of fraud last year after a…
Rainbow-coloured clouds have been spotted across the East of England for the first time in seven years, a meteorologist said.
BBC Look East weather presenter Dan Holley said the nacreous clouds were…
A zoo's beloved koala that was imported from Japan has died.
Burke, a Southern koala, joined Longleat's safari in Wiltshire in 2019 from Osaka Tennoji Zoo as part of a breeding programme to protect…
A council has only reduced emissions by 3% since declaring a "climate emergency" over four years ago, a report has revealed.
Sheffield City Council agreed in 2019 to set a target of reducing…
In normal years, the Christmas lights around Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, would steal the show.
Huge effort is poured into the festive illuminations.
But this December, the violent light and sound…
If you want to sell a bicycle, light it up, says Eamon Barrett, owner of the Altitude bike shop in Waterford, Ireland. The glossy technicolour paints, the chrome, the shiny new spokes - they all…
The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved a bill to relax environmental licensing to pave a highway cutting through the heart of the Amazon that scientists say will threaten the future of the…
Carbon credit certifiers from the much-criticized voluntary market could be the big winners of a failure to strike a deal on the exchange of offsets between countries at Cop28, experts told Climate…
The Russian government’s campaign for endorsement of “transitional fuels” succeeded at the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai.
Russia, the world’s second biggest gas producer, told the United Nations back…
Governments at the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai have agreed a playbook for adapting to climate change in areas like health, protecting nature and food and water security.
But while wealthy countries…
Negotiators arrived in a good mood on Wednesday morning to the final Cop28 plenary in Dubai. At around 11 am, they adopted the final text of the global stocktake, in what delegates regarded as a…
Hopes of clinching a deal on carbon trading mechanisms evaporated under the desert sun in Dubai after a tussle between the European Union and the United States.
Countries failed to agree on key…
Countries have agreed on the need to shift away from burning fossil fuels for the first time in the UN climate process, at Cop28 talks in Dubai.
The “UAE consensus” did not go so far as to call for…
Governments have collectively pledged more than $400 million to establish a loss and damage fund for the victims of climate disaster.
On day one of UN climate talks in Dubai, negotiators rubber-…
You’ve seen the headlines that Cop28 in Dubai has resulted in an unprecedented call to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’. So why were celebrations from developing countries and civil society so…