At their core, our climate actions are about improving the lives of people in Australia and around the world. Acting decisively now will allow us to modernise our economy, help our international…
Kenya Railways (KRC) and the World Bank are working together to modernise the East African country's rail network, with the electrification of suburban trains as the first step.
Kenya has embarked…
An initiative by the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) and the Virunga National Park has led to the planting of 1,500 hectares of trees in the province of North Kivu, which is…
While Britons don jumpers and complain about the unseasonable cold, much of the world has been reeling due to excessive temperatures. India has been in the grip of its longest heatwave in recorded…
Swiss company Candi Solar has raised $38 million. The aim is to supply solar energy to commercial and industrial (C&I) customers in Africa and India.
The $38 million financing was raised as…
You can see 119 wind turbines scattered across the landscape from the highest point on sheep grazier Brent Finlay’s southern Queensland property. Within a few months, there will be 162; within a…
Ivory Coast's Council of Ministers has just passed a law authorising a loan of 22.3 billion CFA francs (around €34 million) from the African Development Bank (BOAD) for the construction of a new…
Ghana has installed a huge solar energy array on the Bui reservoir, cutting land use and boosting renewable energy output. The project can also protect aquatic life from overheating.
The climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries, exacerbating the global climate…
As Maine regulators try to direct sprawling urban development away from “high-value agricultural soils”, they’re taking heat for singling out solar projects for special restrictions based on nothing…
As part of its Rhino Rewild initiative, African Parks has just reintroduced 120 southern white rhinos into the Great Kruger. This initiative is part of a vast programme to rewild 2,000 rhinos from a…
Alaska’s capital city is to limit the numbers of cruise ship passengers arriving at the port amid concerns over tourism’s growing impact, but a leading critic of the industry has said further…
For almost seven years, there has been an increase in water desalination projects of around 9% per year. And this figure is set to double between now and 2050, according to Francois Guerber, head of…
Hikers may be inadvertently damaging the environment and risking their own health by wearing clothes made waterproof with “forever chemicals”, according to research by Ethical Consumer.
The world population could reach 10 billion by 2050. Every year, 30 per cent of the planet suffers from hunger, with this figure rising to 60 per cent in Africa. Yet, with its vast natural resources…
The Chicago-based architecture firm that built the world’s tallest structure in Dubai is looking to design skyscrapers that use gravity storage to reduce climate pollution.
Kilifi County’s white sandy beaches have made it one of Kenya’s most popular tourist destinations. Hotels and beach bars line the 165 mile-long (265km) coast; fishers supply the district’s…
African elephants respond to individual names, one of the few wild animal species known to do so, according to new research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday.
These unique…
Nearly a decade has passed since migration to Europe from Africa and the Middle East reached a peak in 2015, referred to as the year of the “migrant crisis”. Over a million people from Africa and the…
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