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08 07 2024 | 16:16

North Sea oil decline: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened to 80s miners’

In this city, everyone feels the decline of the North Sea,” says Chris Douglas, 39, who has lived in Aberdeen his whole life and began working as a taxi driver in the Granite City 20 years ago. He…

08 07 2024 | 16:14

Ravaged by civil war, how a national park was restored in Mozambique

Gorongosa, Mozambique – In Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique, veterinarian Mercia Angela cradles a baby pangolin in her arms. Perhaps aware that it is safe, it reaches out and gently…

08 07 2024 | 16:13

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Google’s goal of reducing its climate footprint is in jeopardy as it relies on more and more energy-hungry data centres to power its new artificial intelligence products. The tech giant revealed…

08 07 2024 | 16:08

EU “green” funds invest millions in expanding coal giants in China, India

EU-regulated “green” funds are investing in some of the world’s biggest coal companies that are expanding their operations in contrast to a 2021 UN agreement for countries to reduce their use of the…

08 07 2024 | 16:07

Tanzania zooms ahead with new electric trains, express service

Tanzania has taken a major leap forward in its railway modernisation efforts with the arrival of two new electric multiple-unit (EMU) trains from South Korea. The trains boast eight carriages each…

08 07 2024 | 16:05

Richard Tice accused of hypocrisy over firm’s embrace of green tech

Richard Tice’s property company has enthusiastically embraced green technologies despite his public hostility as Reform UK chair to net zero targets and some of the same initiatives. The businessman…

08 07 2024 | 16:04

Cool, Green Infrastructure Can Beat Urban Heat and Drought, Experts Say

Reflective and green infrastructure is now essential to combat the extreme heat and drought in the cards for hundreds of millions of urban dwellers as the planet continues to warm, says the World…

08 07 2024 | 16:04

Cold-Climate Wind Turbines Show Potential to Replace Diesel

Wind turbines popping up in communities in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are helping to establish the technology’s potential in cold climates, where high wind speeds offer an ideal resource…

08 07 2024 | 16:03

Queensland coalmine fire a ‘disaster’ for climate say environmental groups

Conservation groups say a fire that has been burning since Saturday at an underground coalmine is Queensland is an “environmental disaster” that highlights the risks of methane gas to workers,…

08 07 2024 | 16:03

The World Is Flooded With Plastic Waste

In just two decades, the global annual production of plastic waste has increased from 180 million tonnes to nearly 400 million tonnes, according to the OECD's Global Plastics Outlook report.

08 07 2024 | 16:03

Canada's Record-breaking 2023 Wildfires Released Nearly 4 Times More Carbon than Global Aviation

Canada’s 2023 wildfires made international headlines, causing billions of dollars in property damage, displacing thousands of people from their homes, and spewing air pollution that traveled as far…

08 07 2024 | 15:59

With Sustainable Development Goals severely off track, UN Forum to boost global efforts ahead of Summit of the Future

With current progress falling far short of what is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, this year’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 8 to 17…

08 07 2024 | 15:58

Renewable Energy Growth Outpaces Fossil Fuels for the First Time

New wind and solar installations outpaced all other additions to the global energy mix in 2023, and clean energy investments are projected to exceed US$2 trillion in 2024, account for two-thirds of…

08 07 2024 | 15:58

Distributed Grid Could Absorb Peak Demand, Wipe Out Energy Insecurity by 2035: Deloitte

Distributed energy resources (DERs) like batteries and electric vehicles could absorb the entire increase in peak demand that U.S. power grids are projecting through 2035, but only if utilities seize…

08 07 2024 | 15:53

How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa’s small farmers

Sacks of coffee are piled high in an Ethiopian warehouse, dwarfing the workers who scurry between them. “Our farmers’ lives are dependent on this coffee,” says Dejene Dadi Dika, the general manager…

08 07 2024 | 15:50

Oil Worker’s Shift to Geothermal Reflects ‘Endless’ Opportunity in Clean Careers

An oil sands worker who drilled his way into the geothermal industry is just one example of how the clean energy transition is creating new opportunities for the Canadian work force, now supported by…

08 07 2024 | 15:39

Kenya’s Ruto pledges spending cuts after nationwide protests

NAIROBI, July 5 (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday pledged spending cuts totalling 177 billion shillings ($1.39 billion) in the fiscal year that started in July, after weeks of…

08 07 2024 | 15:17

Sharp rise in number of climate lawsuits against companies, report says

The number of climate lawsuits filed against companies around the world is rising swiftly, a report has found, and a majority of cases that have concluded have been successful. About 230 climate-…

08 07 2024 | 15:15

William Armstrong: Victorian who built first hydroelectric-powered house

William Armstrong was a Victorian inventor and engineer who in 1870 created the world’s first hydroelectric power scheme, at his family home of Cragside, near Rothbury, Northumberland. It was run by…