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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
A nuclear-powered Australian economy would result in higher-cost electricity and would “sound the death knell” for decarbonisation efforts if it distracts from renewables investment, a report by…
Western journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s crackdown on the media ahead of crucial UN climate talks…
In 1959 the US government hatched a covert scheme to replace every single bird with a replicant surveillance drone to spy on its own citizens. This is only the second silliest theory flying around…
The law and fossil fuels: as lawyers in courts around the world battle it out over the future of non-renewable energy sources – not to mention the future of the planet – Rachel Donald asks whether it…
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