Trees, cooling centres, water stations. All three are on Haris Doukas’s mind as he sits in his office-turned-control centre on the top floor of city hall.
In your editorial (The Guardian view on councils in need: voters should be told what the parties’ plans are, 23 June), you fail to mention perhaps the most acute challenge of all facing local…
To reduce global carbon emissions, should people harvest and use more wood or less? This question underlies the merits of policies that encourage power plants and heating facilities to burn more wood…
Shell Plc plans to explore an offshore South African oil block located across the maritime border with Namibia, where a number of discoveries have been made.
Image: Marie-Helena Laurent/WFP/AP/picture alliance
In the eastern Chadian town of Adre, refugees continue to pour in, coming on horseback, with donkeys or — in most cases — on foot, recounting…
Dakar, Senegal — Gambian lawmakers adopted recommendations Monday for the country to maintain its ban on female genital mutilation ahead of a vote later this month on whether to decriminalize the…
Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian
In a packed community hall in regional Queensland, a calamitous story is being told. Australia’s east coast is bulldozed into the ground. Rural towns are…
A landslide victory for Labour was also a satisfactory result for the vigilantes of the bond market. A Conservative administration that served up Liz Truss’s reckless budget of unfunded giveaways in…
On 13 February, when freak winds brought down a transmission line in Victoria and shut down the state’s largest power station, a fleet of electric cars plugged into a charger in Canberra 500km away…
Illustration: Israel Vargas
The Brazilian state of Amapá is a densely forested chunk of land slightly larger than England and geographically isolated from the rest of Brazil. It has one of the…
New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma…
A visitor to Death Valley national park died on Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128F (53.3C) in eastern California, officials said.
The two…
Norwegian investment fund Norfund is to invest $307 million in the development of electromobility solutions in Kenya, in particular those of start-up BasiGo. The announcement was made recently by…
The town of Zarat in Tunisia has a new seawater desalination plant. Va Tech Wabag, an Indian company, built the plant, which will provide drinking water to around 1 million people in three…
A tripartite agreement on sustainable urban development has just been signed between the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF), the University of Lubumbashi and the town of…
The government of Ivory Coast has signed a concession agreement with a new investor. Kong Solaire will build a 50 MWp solar power plant in the north of the country.
Ivory Coast will be building a…
Nigeria’s average daily crude oil production in the month of June rose marginally to 1.276 million barrels.
This represents an increase of just 25 thousand barrels daily from 1.251 million barrels p…
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