Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg—visiting the United States from her native Sweden to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit beginning Monday in New York—spoke during a hearing of the…
The international community is falling well short of providing the cash needed to ensure universal access to electricity by 2030, according to a report released on Monday (12 November 2018).
At the…
I was 18 when I started college at the University of East Anglia in England. I had just completed eight years at a British Army school in Germany. My parents dropped me off on campus with a couple of…
Extreme events linked to climate change, such as the heatwave in Europe this year, are occurring sooner than expected, an ex-chief scientist says.
Prof Sir David King says he's been scared by the…
Lawyer Farhana Yamin explains what drove her to civil disobedience after three decades of environmental advocacy for the IPCC, the United Nations and more.
On 16 April this year, I superglued my…
Revoking the state’s tough fuel-efficiency standards would increase US greenhouse-gas emissions.
US President Donald Trump’s administration plans to revoke California’s legal authority to set its…
In his standard blue jeans and unbuttoned flannel shirt, David Liebman could blend in with many of the young students walking to and from classes at Santa Rosa Junior College.
But Liebman, manager…
The reports reveal that 2019 represents a tipping point for renewables.
A pair of reports released this week by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a nonprofit that promotes the transition away from…
Climate change headlines have grown increasingly dire. While many associate global warming with this summer’s melting glaciers, forest fires and disastrous flooding, it is higher winter temperatures…
Oil production costs will have to come way down to be competitive with renewables a decade from now, a new study says.
The age of gasoline could be over sooner than many people think, a recent…
Independent planning commission refuses South Korean company Kepco’s $290m proposal.
The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has rejected the development of a coalmine near Mudgee…
Θυμάστε εκείνους τους πιανίστες, στις καουμπόικες ταινίες της νιότης μας, που μουσικά «τα έδιναν όλα» προκειμένου να καλύψουν τα πιστολίδια που έπεφταν γύρω τους; Τον έχω παίξει τον ρόλο πλειστάκις.…
Activists say stinking sludge is linked to nitrates in fertilisers from intensive farming.
André Ollivro stepped carefully down the grassy banks of an estuary in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany,…
As conservation groups get smarter about technology, so do the poachers they are fighting to stop.
Wednesday marked a milestone in the battle to protect endangered species, when an international…
Στις 24 Σεπτεμβρίου συναντιώνται στις Βρυξέλλες οι αρμόδιοι Υπουργοί Ενέργειας για να συζητήσουν για μια ακόμη φορά τους μελλοντικούς ενεργειακούς και κλιματικούς στόχους της Ένωσης. Αυτή τη φορά η…
Για μια τουλάχιστον ακόμα χρονιά, και ειδικά το καλοκαίρι του 2020 οπότε η ζήτηση θα είναι όπως κάθε χρόνο μεγάλη, η Κρήτη θα ηλεκτροδοτηθεί από παλιές μονάδες που λειτουργούν ήδη κατά παρέκκλιση των…
Η διαχείριση του νερού και της ενέργειας, καθορίζει το σύνολο της οικονομίας και καθορίζεται από την παιδεία του κοινωνικού συνόλου. Ο συνδυασμός της παραγωγής και της διαχείρισης αυτών των…
A memorandum of understanding signed by the institutions was not solar specific but the use of PV modules for shading, especially in agriculture, can reduce water consumption and help halt the…
The global transition from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to cleaner, more reliable renewables like wind and solar is already well underway. But the big question – for the 2020s and beyond – is how…