Oxfam International warned Thursday that up to 12,000 people could die each day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to the coronavirus pandemic—a daily death toll surpassing the daily…
G20 countries aim their pandemic bailout spending at fossil fuel industries, leaving Paris climate change targets in doubt.
Governments are spending vastly more in support of fossil fuels than on…
Trump’s energy secretary Dan Brouillette promotes ‘all fuels’ free-market strategy at climate and sustainability summit
The US has argued for less regulation of the world’s energy systems, speaking…
Fracking companies are going bankrupt at a rapid pace, often with taxpayer-funded bonuses for executives, leaving harm for communities, taxpayers, and workers, the New York Time reports.
There’s a one in five chance that average global warming will hit 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in at least one of the next five years, and a 70% chance that at least one month will exceed that…
Campaign group Plan B has written a letter to Prime Minister and the Chancellor warning legal action is imminent if stimulus package becomes a ‘New Deal for Polluters’.
On Tuesday, the climate…
Pandemic prompted states to temporarily ban reusable grocery bags and stalled legislation aimed at reducing plastic packaging.
Consumers were refusing straws and toting their own coffee mugs.…
I thank Dr. Fatih Birol and the International Energy Agency for convening this summit.
It is vital that we bring sharper focus on the need to transition away from fossil fuels and toward a clean…
Businesses include oil and gas drillers and coal mine operators, an analysis by Documented and the Guardian finds.
More than 5,600 companies in the fossil fuel industry have taken a minimum of $3bn…
Ongoing destruction of nature will result in stream of animal diseases jumping to humans, says report.
The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the…
Bubonic Plague Found in a Herder in Inner Mongolia, China Says
A city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
A…
To hear many journalists tell it, the spring of 2020 has brought a series of extraordinary revelations. Look at what the nation has learned: That our health-care system was not remotely up to the…
MILAN (Reuters) - Europe’s biggest utility Enel is set to launch a green hydrogen business next year to speed up its plans to become a carbon-free power producer by 2050.
The group is targeting…
The coronavirus pandemic may have produced a tipping point in the transition off fossil fuels, with two colossal fossils declaring in the last two weeks that they will downgrade the value of their…
1.8GW Vanguard project gets greenlight, with approval on 2.4GW Hornsea 3 expected in autumn
The construction of two giant offshore windfarms is poised to go ahead off the Norfolk coast in what the…
Exclusive: IEA chief warns rebound in emissions would be missed economic opportunity.
The US is to join with other major powers including China, India and the EU in formulating plans for a global…
Forums speak of hundreds of tonnes of plastic and other waste discarded by public.
Hundreds of tonnes of additional rubbish, including mountains of single-use plastic, is being discarded by the…
With restaurants closed and less food discarded on UK streets, rats have had to find new places to feed. Luckily for them, people are eating more in their houses, flats and gardens …
Lockdown has…
US, Russia are among many G20 nations helping coal, oil and gas more than clean energy as part of recovery packages, a major study will show.
Major nations including the United States and Russia are…